Eat the soil on the top, drink the yellow spring on the bottom
The first "Persuasion" of "Xunzi" wrote: "The worm has no advantage of claws and teeth, the strength of the muscles and bones, eating the soil, drinking the yellow spring, and the heart is also one." This is xunzi telling us that the attitude of learning should be perseverance and tirelessness, and that such a seemingly weak animal like an earthworm can "eat the soil and drink the yellow spring", which is why it is dedicated.
Medicinal value of Dilong
Earthworms don't just provide inspiration for our minds, they're also good medicine.
The Chinese medicine of earthworm is called Dilong, which is one of the important Chinese medicinal materials in China. Among the 67 animal medicines included in the earliest Chinese medicine monograph "Shennong Materia Medica" is earthworm. Listed as the next product in the "Shennong Materia Medica", it has the effect of clearing fever and fixing shock, communication, asthma and diuresis; it is often used for high fever, dizziness, epileptic convulsions, joint pain, lung heat and wheezing cough, urinary edema, hypertension and other symptoms; the main contains a variety of amino acids. Li Shizhen said in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that it has the effect of activating the meridians, activating blood and dissolving stasis, and preventing and treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Examples of famous parties
Prescriptions for dilong medicine include small gold pills, bronchitis tablets and other famous proprietary Chinese medicines.
Kogane Maru
Xiaojin Pill was originally called "Xiao Jindan", which was first published in the "Collection of Surgical Evidence and Treatment" written by Wang Hongxu in the Qing Dynasty, and the 1963 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia first recorded Xiaojindan, and the 1977 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia renamed it Xiaojin Pill. The whole party is composed of 10 herbs including musk, wood turtle, grass wu, maple balsam, vinegar frankincense, vinegar myrrh, five spirit fats, wine angelica, earth dragon, and fragrant ink. It has the function of dissipating knots and swelling, reducing stasis and relieving pain, and is mainly used to treat cold and wet phlegm stasis, blocking the flow of meridians, phlegm nuclei, fistulas, milk rock, and lactation. Xiaojin Pill has remarkable clinical efficacy, is favored by ancient and modern doctors, and is now widely used in the treatment of breast, thyroid and prostate diseases, and is the first choice of proprietary Chinese medicine for the clinical treatment of breast hyperplasia today.
Bronchitis tablets
Bronchitis tablets are composed of dwarf tea, skullcap, dilong, licorice, ephedrine hydrochloride, where acute bronchitis, chronic bronchitis acute attack, asthmatic bronchial differentiation is caused by phlegm fever, cough or cough, accompanied by phlegm, chest tightness, dry mouth, yellow tongue, can be selected. Among them, the dragon plays a role in clearing heat and relieving spasm (increasing lung perfusion flow, relaxing the bronchi).
Historical stories
Soon after the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, due to overwork and lack of moderation in eating and living, he actually suffered from the "waist-wrapped snake Dan", and his chronic disease and asthma attacked at the same time. The medical officers racked their brains, but there was no way to rejuvenate. Someone recommended a folk doctor in Shangqiu, Henan, to treat him, and Taizu ordered Zhang to enter the dynasty.
Zhang Qing inspected Taizu's affected area and saw that the ring waist was covered with soybean-like blisters, which were as tired as beads. After a moment of contemplation, he opened the medicine jar he was carrying, took out a few live earthworms from it and put them on the plate, sprinkled it with bee sugar, so that it immediately dissolved into water, and then dipped some water with cotton and applied it to Taizu's affected area, and Taizu felt that a cool feeling was secreted into his heart and spleen. Then, he took another plate of earthworm juice and asked Taizu to take it. Taizu asked, "What is this?" External compound energy internal administration! Zhang Qing was afraid that Taizu would not obey when he saw the doubts, so he improvised: "Your Majesty is a divine dragon, how can folk medicine work?" This medicine is called 'Earth Dragon', which means dragon to supplement dragon. Taizu was extremely excited, and looked up and drank the earthworm liquid. After 7 days, Taizu's sores fell and his asthma stopped.
Since then, the reputation of the "Earth Dragon" has been greatly shocked, and the healing of the Earth Dragon has gradually spread.
Earth Dragon (Animal Medicine)
01【Medicinal Source】
It is a dry body of the plutonium worm, the popular ring worm, the William ring worm or the ctenophoric blind ring hairworm. The former is called "Guangdi Dragon", which is mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places; the latter is called "Shanghai Dragon". Guangdi dragon is captured from spring to autumn, and Shanghai dragon is captured in summer, the abdomen is cut open in time, the internal organs and sediment are washed away, and dried in the sun or at low temperature. Raw or fresh.
02【Prescription Application】
Small gold pills, bronchitis tablets, etc.
03【Sexual Taste Returns】
Salty, cold. Return to the liver, spleen, and bladder meridians.
04【Function】
Clear heat, extinguish the wind, calm the breath, tong, diuretic.
05【Main Application】
1. For high fever and epilepsy, spastic convulsions, can be used alone to fry, or with hook vine, ox yolk, white zombie silkworm and the like.
2. For pulmonary fever asthma. It can be taken internally with this product alone, or with ephedra, plaster, almonds, etc.
3. For paralysis. Treat joint redness and pain caused by fever paralysis, flexion and extension are unfavorable, often used with self-defense, Qin Gang vine, etc.; treat limb joint numbness, pain, flexion and extension caused by wind and cold and wet paralysis, often used with Chuanwu, Tiannanxing, Frankincense and so on.
4. It is used for hemiplegia caused by qi deficiency and blood stagnation. It is often used with astragalus, angelica, sichuan root, etc.
5. It is used for hot knots bladder caused by unfavorable urination, and urinary closure is not passed. It is often used with psyllium, mutong, sawa, etc.