Bird urn

Bird urn

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] Maniche (Ben Jing), tiesi room (BIE Lu), queer rice urn (Shu Ben Cao), xiangchongke (rihuazi Ben Cao), zhigangzi and tianjiangzi (Ben Cao Tu Jing).

[source] it is the cocoon of Spodoptera flavescens.

[animal morphology] Prodenia flavescens

Body yellowish brown, about 15 mm long, wing spread about 35 mm; male body smaller. Head brown, compound eyes 1 pair, elliptic, dark brown; antennae flagellate, dark yellow; chest densely covered with fine hairs. There are two pairs of wings. The front wing extends two dark brown diagonal lines from the top of the wing to the rear, and the inner line is the boundary. The outer edge to the outer edge is brown; the inner side is yellow, and there are two brown dots; the rear wing is light yellowish brown. Foot 3 pairs, inside slightly dark brown. The male is smaller in abdomen and the female is larger. The larva is yellow at the beginning of hatching and turns yellow green at maturity. It has a small head and a large abdomen. There are small protuberances on both sides of the body with brown bristles. From July to August, the cocoon is oval, about 15 mm long, gray white, with several dark black thick diagonal lines, and very hard.

The larvae live on pear, apple, jujube, persimmon, cherry, plum and other fruit trees and eat the tender leaves. It is distributed in South China, Southwest China and North China.

[collection] harvest in August.

(1) the original taste of the book is sweet. "

② Bielu: "non toxic. "

③ Rihuazi materia medica: "poisonous. "

[function indications] it is used to treat infantile convulsion, umbilical cord wind and epilepsy.

① "Ben Jing": "it is mainly used for children's convulsion and epilepsy, and for cold and heat to accumulate Qi. "

② In the collection of Materia Medica, it is said that "in order to cure children's mouth disease, we should first attach importance to the side of children's mouth and make them see blood. Then we should take the juice from the broken urn and apply it to them. In addition, we should also give birth to a rat rammer and a bird urn. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: pills and powder.

[formula selection] ① for treating children's chronic convulsion: tianjiangzi (with worms), white Bombyx Batryticatus and dried scorpion (stir fried with three things) each. Ramming and sieving is the end. Jianmahuang decoction, one word, three days. The size of the rib and the baby should be increased or decreased. (Ben Cao Tu Jing)

② Treatment of children with acute convulsion tetany: tianjiangzi three, dry scorpion seven, cinnabar one money. Mash on the powder, to soft rice and balls, such as corn big. Regardless of time, take two pills with Schizonepeta tenuifolia soup. Measure the size of the baby, add or subtract it.

③ Treatment of infantile mouth pinch and hair shudder: a sparrow rice urn in Acanthaceae. If it is not opened, take the contents of the urn and study and irrigate it with milk. 2. One barefoot centipede and five queer rice jars. He Shao for ash, fine grinding. Take porridge and drink three words each time.

④ Treatment of infantile umbilical cord wind: tianjiangzi (insect) one, real Bombyx Batryticatus (fried) one, a little greasy powder. Grind well and pour it with peppermint natural juice to remove the poison. (bailonggao)

⑤ Treatment of infantile epilepsy: prickly branches on the bird urn, research, during the worm out, take juice irrigation. (2) Sheng Hui Fang is published below.)

Chinese PinYin : Que Weng