Protosilkworm moth

Protosilkworm moth

(bielu)

[synonym] late silkworm moth (rihuazi materia medica).

[source] it is the male of Bombyx mori.

[animal morphology] Bombyx mori

Both male and female moths are covered with white scales. Body length 1.6-2.3 cm. The wingspan is 3.9-4.3 cm. The head is smaller. Compound eye 1 pair, black, semicircular. The mouth is degenerated and the lower lip is small. The antennae of female moth are gray and shorter, the male is black and longer than the female. There are two pairs of wings with white scales; the front wing is located in the middle chest, triangular, large, with three light and dark stripes; the back wing is born in the back chest, small, slightly round, with two dark parallel lines. Three pairs. Tarsi 5, with 1 pair of dark brown claws, woolly hair. The abdomen of female moth is plump and the end is blunt and round; the abdomen of male moth is narrow and the end is slightly pointed. The larva is the silkworm. Cylindric, grayish white, with dark stripes, all with sparse yellowish brown short hair, composed of 13 links except the head. The head is small and hard, with one eye, antennae, lips, jaws and silk tube. The first three segments are the chest, and the last 10 segments are the abdomen; the anterior thoracic segment is very small, with oval valves on both sides, the middle and posterior thoracic segments are expanded, and there are folds on the surface; there are 3 pairs of chest feet, 4 pairs of abdominal feet, and 1 pair of tail feet. There is a caudal horn in the center of the 8th ventral segment. There are silk glands in the body, which can secrete silk and spin silk into cocoons.

The larvae feed on tender mulberry leaves, cocoon after 5th instar, pupate gradually and become moths. The occurrence times of silkworms are once, twice and four times a year. Therefore, there are the names of Yihua silkworm, Erhua silkworm and Sihua silkworm. Due to different occurrence times, there are spring silkworm, summer silkworm and autumn silkworm. It's widely distributed. In most areas of our country, they are raised.

It is also used for the pupae (pupae), pupae (pupae), pupae (pupae) and pupae (pupae).

[collection] in summer, the male silkworm moths were scalded to death in boiling water and dried in the sun.

[chemical constituents] there are about 20 kinds of protein and free amino acids in silkworm moth, but no α - aminoisobutyric acid, proline and cystine, and only female moth has ornithine. It also contains fatty oil. It has been reported that the fatty oil of male moth is very similar to silkworm pupa oil. Three kinds of fluorescent substances have been isolated from the wings of moths, among which the main one is cyan fluorescent substance. It is a kind of pterin, named as fluorescein. It is said that it is the same substance as fluorescein in fish tissues. Moths also contain cytochrome c, which is the same as the cytochrome C in vertebrates and yeast. When a kilogram of silkworm moth is first produced, 70 mg of cytochrome c crystal can be separated. Silkworm moths (and pupae) contain metamorphosis hormone α - desquamate pine and β - desquamate pine, among which the main one is α - desquamate pine.

Female moths have sex pheromones, which contain the substance to lure male moths. They were once called sex pheromones. They are all fluorescent sex pigments, which decompose when they see light. Vitamin B12 was isolated from every 1000 moths_ 17 mg (36 mg for pupae and 75 mg for silkworms). It also contains nicotinic acid. The newly emerged moth excretes 7.2 micrograms of nicotinic acid in urine every day.

[processing] Yaodui: "stir fry as medicine, remove wings and feet. "

[flavor] salty, warm.

① Bielu: "heat, little poison. "

② "Drug pair": "heat, non-toxic. "

③ Qianjin Shizhi: "it tastes salty, warm and has little poison. "

[Guijing] into the liver and kidney channels.

① "Into the kidney. "

② Yuluoyaojie: "entering the kidney meridian of foot Shaoyin and liver meridian of foot Jueyin. "

③ Ben Cao Qiu Zhen: "enter the gate of life. "

Functions and indications: tonifying liver and kidney, strengthening yang and astringent essence. Treatment of impotence, spermatorrhea, turbidity, blood in urine, trauma, ulcer and scald.

① Bielu: "it can benefit essence, strengthen vagina and stop essence. "

② "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Yang, stop ejaculation, urine blood, warm water storage. It can cure tempest, golden sores, frostbite, fire sores in soup, and eliminate scars. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: pills and powder. External use: grind, sprinkle or mash.

[taboo] in the classic of materia medica: "it should be avoided if there is fire due to yin deficiency. "

[prescription selection] ① treatment of impotence: the silkworm moth (unconnected) rises, dries in the shade, removes its head, feet and hairiness. At the end of the day, white honey pills are like Wuzi. Take one pill at night. (Qian Jin Fang)

② Treatment of spermatorrhea, turbidity: late silkworm moth baked, to wing, foot. For the end, rice balls, mung bean big. Take 40 pills each time, light salt soup. (compendium)

③ It can be used to treat hemogonorrhea, abdominal pain and penile pain. Before each meal, the hot wine is used to make two coins. (Sheng Hui Fang)

④ It can cure all wounds caused by knives and axes, stop bleeding and promote muscle growth: the silkworm moth is the last, mixed evenly and wrapped in silk. (Sheng Jin Fang Tian Wo SAN)

⑤ Zhixue Dingtong Shengji: late silkworm moth, Angelica dahurica, angelica head, Chen Huishi each equal. Research fine powder, apply. Silkworm moth powder

⑥ For the treatment of sores on jade pillow, the raw occipital bone is like carbuncle, and the broken occipital bone is like sheath head: Shiwei, yuansilkworm moth (fried). Divide the two ingredients equally, mash for powder, dry paste. (Shi Weisan, Shengji Zonglu)