Alligator beetle

Alligator beetle

(notes to the classic of Materia Medica)

[synonym] fish beetle (Ben Jing).

[source] the scales of alligator (Alligator sinensis).

Chinese alligator (alligator), also known as the "dragon of the world" and "crocodile of the world".

It is as big as a lizard, with a length of more than 2 meters. All are covered with scales. There are 18 conical teeth on the sea side of maxilla and 19 teeth on the sea side of mandible. The eye is large, with upper and lower eyelids and blink membrane, and the pupil is vertical. The auricular foramen is fissured and can be closed with valves. One pair of nostrils, opening above the front of the snout, with valve, can open and close freely. The neck is thin with 2 pairs of longitudinally ribbed scales. The trunk is flat. There are 17 rows of rectangular scales on the back from front to back and 6 rows of scales across the back. The abdomen is gray. Abdominal scales 28 rows, slightly rectangular. The forelimb is 5 fingers, without web; the hind limb is long, with 4 toes, with web between toes; there are claws at the ends of fingers and toes. The tail is long and flat, with gray and black ring pattern, and the nail near the tail is sharp.

They live along the banks of rivers and dig caves. It feeds on fish, frogs, rats, turtles, turtles and birds. From October to the end of March of the next year, they hibernate in Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Jiangxi.

The meat of this animal (Alligator meat) is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[processing] Compendium: "it is used for crispy or wine roasting. "

It is pungent, warm and poisonous.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes pungent and slightly warm. "

② Bielu: "poisonous. "

③ "On medicinal properties": "Gan, Ping. There's a little poison. "

④ "Compendium": "acid, slightly warm, toxic. "

Functions and indications: remove blood stasis, eliminate accumulation, kill insects, treat accumulation of Baihuang, bring down in collapse, scabies and malignant sores.

① "Ben Jing" says: "it governs the heart and abdomen with various symptoms, such as hoarseness, firmness, accumulation, cold and heat. In women's heart and abdomen, there are five colors of blood in the middle and lower parts of the body. In the lower abdomen, there is pain in the middle of Yin, and there are sores, scabies and dead muscles. "

② Bielu: "the main five evils are frightened when they cry, with heavy pain in the waist, children's qi stagnation and canthus ulceration. "

③ "Treatise on medicinal properties": "it is used to treat women's hair, remove blood in the abdomen, accumulate Fu Jian phase and cause knot pain. "

④ Materia medica notes: "the main evil sores, abdominal pain.". "Roast, burn and soak wine. It is mainly used to kill insects, fistula sores and wind scabies. It has the same function as turtle shell. "

⑤ "RI Hua Zi Tai Cao" and "Zhi Chi Ni Xuan Lu". "

⑥ "Treatment of Yin malaria" in compendium. "

⑦ "Ben Cao Tu Jing": "skin and bone, burn ash and grind powder, drink rice and take, and control intestinal wind and hemorrhoids. What's more, add red cockscomb powder, alum powder and ash powder, take it on an empty stomach. "

[Yiji] "Shu lacquer is the envoy of the book of Materia Medica". Fear of Dog Gall, kansui, genkwa. "

"Alligator beetle, the main syndrome, mostly belongs to Jueyin. Its function is only in calming the liver, treating blood and killing insects. In Qianjin prescription, alligator shell soup is used to cure wind and scabies. Today, there are many medicines hanging in the shop. Clouds can repel beetles and kill insects. "