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Pin Yin: jiangcan
Common name: stiffened body of diseased silkworm
Botanical family: (insect) Bombycidae; (fungus) Moniliaceae
Botanical name: 1, Bombyx mori L., infected with Beauveria bassiana (= Batrytis bassiana Bals.)
Primary action: Extinguish Wind, Stop Spasm
Secondary actions:
Release Wind Heat;
Transform Hot Phlegm;
Clear Heat Toxins
Temperature: neutral
Taste: acrid, salty
Entering Channel: Lv, Lu, St
Actions:
Extinguishes Interior Wind and relieves spasms and convulsions; used for
childhood convulsions and for Bell's palsy (facial paralysis).
Expels Exterior Wind: relieves itching skin lesions associated with Wind
Heat.
Transforms Phlegm and dissipates nodules; used for Hot Phlegm scrofula
and other Phlegm nodules.
Detoxifies Fire Poison of the throat; used in parotitis and tonsillitis.
(See
Interior Wind
;
Liver Wind Moving Internally
;
Exterior Wind
;
Phlegm ; Fire
Poison (Heat Toxin)
.)
Dosage:
1.5-5 qian.
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