<h1>Crumpled snails</h1>
Pinyin Zhòu Bā Jiān Luó
Aliases sky snail, round snail
Source medicinal base source: Shell of ribbed snail in the family Riba.
Latin botanical mineral name: Camaena cicatricosa (Muller)
Harvesting and storage: spring and autumn harvesting, after catching, boiling water slightly, remove the meat shell, sun dry.
The original form is wrinkled snail, the shell is large, left-handed, shell mass, flattened spherical. The shell is flattened and spherical. The shell is 35mm high and 49mm wide. There are 5.5 spiral layers, the first few spiral layers grow slightly faster, slightly protruding, and the spiral part is arched. The upper part of the body snail layer is flat, the lower part is expanded, and there are blunt keel protruding shell surfaces on the periphery of the body snail layer near the shell mouth, with multiple millet color bands, and a wide band below the periphery of the body snail layer, and a thicker growth line. The shell top is blunt and the suture line is shallow. The shell mouth is half-moon shaped, the mouth margin is sharp, folded outward, white porcelain, the shaft edge is folded outward, covering the umbilical hole in half, and the inner lip scarf is covered on the body snail layer to form a transparent and smooth corpus. The umbilical foramen is broad and rounded.
Habitat division ecological environment: it lives under stones in woods, limestone caves in plantain bushes, and grass in mountainous areas.
Resource distribution: distributed in Jiangsu, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.
Function indications for detoxification of sores; hemostasis. The main sore is not convulsive; the trauma bleeds
Dosage for external use: appropriate amount, calcined puff pastry powder sprinkled outside.
Excerpt from "Chinese Materia Medica"
