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Pinyin Shuǐ Miǎn
Aliases Water Horse ("Materia Medica"), Water Reptile ("Compendium"), Baozi ("Treasure Book of Eastern Medicine"), Water Monk, Water Soybean Oil (Cai Banghua,"Insect Taxonomy").
Source 《Materia Medica》
The source is a whole insect of the water shrew insect of the family Hydrophoridae.
The original form is slender, dark brown, about 1 cm long. The head is triangular and slightly longer. 1 pair of compound eyes, located on both sides; degeneration of one eye; slightly longer muzzle, divided into 3 segments, the 2nd segment is the longest; antennae are filamentous, 4 segments, protruding in front of the head. The forecoccome is elongated, the back is dark brown, the forewings are leathery, without membranous parts, 3 pairs of feet, the forefoots are short, the middle and hind feet are very long, and the tarsal segments are 2 segments. The ventral surface is gray , and the underside of the body is covered with fine silk-like hairs.
It inhabits water and can jump and prey on other small insects. The eggs are laid on aquatic plants. It is often wrapped in filaments.
Sexual taste "Materia Medica": "Poisonous. "
Functional indications "Outline Collection": "Cure hemorrhoids." "
Compound cure all hemorrhoids: thirty mother-in-law, with three paper bags, ten per package, hanging in the shade of the trunk. Each packet is made into one serving, grinded, hollow warm wine is adjusted, and it is a long time to eat. Three servings in three days. For those who have long hemorrhoids and pus and blood, twenty or thirty times. ("Treasure Book of Eastern Medicine")
Excerpt from the Dictionary of Chinese Medicine
