Pee stick

Pee stick

(Lu Chuan Ben Cao)

[synonyms] tree frog with color change (Xue de entropy's systematic zoology), qingzhuguai (Luchuan materia medica), and tree frog with spotted legs (Atlas of Chinese animals? Amphibians).

[source] it is a member of the family Ranae.

[animal morphology] Rana variegata

The body length of female is about 61 mm, and that of male is about 45 mm. The body is flat. The length and width of the head are equal to or larger than the width; the mouth is wide, the snout is slightly pointed and round, and the snout edge is obvious; the nostril is close to the snout end, and the eye is large and protruding. The eye diameter is equal to that of the snout, the distance between the eyes is larger, and the distance between the eyes and the nose is larger. The skin is smooth, with tiny nevus on the back; the abdomen is covered with granular flat wart, and the temporal fold is straight and long, reaching to the back of the shoulder. The color of the body varies greatly with the habitat. Generally, the back is light brown, with black or black brown stripes on it, in vertical strip, "X" shape or black spot shape; the back of the limbs is black or dark green horizontal stripes, or in spot shape; near the anus and behind the legs are yellow, purple, brown and milky white interwoven network stripes. The abdomen is milky white. There are long forelimbs, sucker and transverse groove at the end of fingers, no web between fingers, limbic membrane at the side of fingers, and well-developed tumors under joints. The hind limbs are slender, the length of the tibia is about half of the body length, and the foot is shorter than the tibia. There was no external metatarsal process. The male has a single hypopharyngeal internal acoustic sac, and the base of the first finger of the forelimb has an obvious milky white wedding pad.

Most of them live in grass, corn field or rice field, sometimes on bamboo or other plants. It is distributed in Sichuan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Taiwan.

[nature and taste] Lu Chuan Ben Cao: "salty, slightly cold. "

[function indications] it is used to treat traumatic bleeding, traumatic injury and fracture.

Lu Chuan's materia medica: "Jiegu. Treatment of falls, fractures. "

[usage and dosage] external use: dry powder, sprinkle or tamp.

[clinical application] treatment of traumatic hemorrhage

After drying the tree frog, sift the powder and sprinkle it on the bleeding area; or tear the abdomen of the tree frog together with the viscera and stick it on the bleeding area. The hemostatic effect is good. In the animal experiment, the pig femoral artery was transected 1 / 2, and the bleeding was stopped 30 seconds after local spraying of tree frog powder. He once treated a 5-year-old boy with a fall wound on his left forehead. The wound was 4cm long and deep to the skull. The bleeding was not stopped immediately after using tree frog powder. The wound healed after 5 days.