Insects making medicine

Bumblebees, 100-150 cubes, remove the wings, remove sandy soil, soak in 1 liter of alcohol 40-50 degrees, leave it for as long as possible. Drink 2-3 times a day, each time a small cup, help treat joint pain, bone pain; or massage to cure hematoma, bruising. People with kidney, lung and heart disease should not take it.

Bumblebee (Photo: VNE)

In the animal world, insects occupy a significant part. In addition to those that have become familiar drugs in traditional medicine such as scorpions, honey bees, cicadas . many other types are less known but have practical effects in the prevention and treatment of experience. folk.

Cow bees drawing

Another name is the earth bee, wasps, and giant bees, which are carnivorous, very venomous insects. The head is yellow, the chest is light brown and the belly is black, the size is larger than the honey bee. Bees live in flocks or alone, do not make honey; nesting in the ground or in groves, roofs.

Cow beetle larvae painted (3-5 g) sharp drink or gold star, powdered, drink chest pain, nausea and vomiting. Larval extract from bee larvae is made into a drink called VAAM (Vespa amino acid mixture) which has a very strong and durable effect. The drug is used for long-distance athletes (marathon).

In some mountainous provinces such as Cao Bang, Lang Son and Yen Bai, people look for cows and bees to get bee nymphs and young bees to provide food for young children who are weak, eat poorly and grow slowly.

Silkworm

The name of medicine in traditional medicine is Russian, male and female. Usually only the male silkworm is caught at 5-6 am, put his wings, remove his head and legs, dry or dry. Can be used fresh. Medicinal ingredients taste salty, fleshy, fatty, fragrant, warm.

Tue Tinh (male medicine god) used to use him silkworm processed into powdered, give patients 8 g each time with alcohol at hungry to cure urination due to gonorrhea. Or take the powder, the silkworm mixed with honey is applied in the mouth, treat children suffering from 'mouth swelling', hard-edged, and cry out.

According to folk experience, he male silkworm (7 heads, crunchy stars) combined with prawn peeled (20 g), crushed, mixed with chicken eggs (2 fruits) used in the form of food as fried and steamed to cook make kidney tonic, positive, useful, cure impotence, dream, no children. It is possible to use pickled alcohol including: male male silkworm 100 g, lecherous or 60 g, three size 50 g, 50 g needle, 40 g field, 30 g vermin, 30 g grafting, 20 g death, chives leaves 20 g, 40 g diameter. All sliced, dried, soaked with 2 liters of alcohol 40 degrees. Take 3 times daily, 30 ml each time before two main meals and at bedtime.

The male silkworm is also formulated with deer antler, seahorse, ginseng and many other tonic herbs in high form extracted with 70-degree alcohol and capsule, named Bipharton (according to the research program combining ancient medicine modern communication and medicine) have the effect of increasing weight and stimulating the genitals.

Black ant

It is a wingless insect, 1.3-1.5 cm long in body, glossy black. Living in a large herd in the mountain forest, making a nest on the ground; until the rainy season, pull together on trees to build a nest to avoid floods.

Black ants contain 40-67% protein consisting of many amino acids, of which 8 are not replaceable. The name of the medicine in traditional medicine is the code of the code, used for living. Medicinal herbs taste salty, spicy, slightly toxic, have the effect of cooling heat, detoxifying, digestion, relieving pain. Every day, take black ants clean, stir-fry with bitter gourd; combine the ants with oil (castor oil or peanut oil) for a while, use massage to treat arthritis, numbness, chronic hepatitis. Used outside, crushed black ants cure pimples and snake bites.

Black ants' eggs are often collected by ethnic minorities in the North to blow away the daily food to make tonic, strengthen physical strength. Women think that eating a lot of black ant eggs will have beautiful, smooth and fresh skin.

Cricket

The part used to make medicine is the whole crickets, dipped in boiling water for death, petal wings, whiskers and tails, then drying or drying. Medicinal drugs have the name of the drug are salivary, salty, spicy, calculated into 3 bladder, colon and colon, have diuretic effect.

Tue Tinh (Nam Duoc god) used 5-celled crickets to dry, small canopy, fine sifted flour, drink with sharpened water at the time of hunger curing for ascites, shortness of breath.

According to folk experience, crickets (2-3 children) crunchy, spread powder, drink 2-3 times with alcohol to cure urinary retention; Combined with living crickets, crushed with an onion and salt, put on the navel, bandage. Use a few days until urination.

Cure urine poisoning: Cricket 7 children put their heads, legs, roasted, spread small, drink with alcohol. Can sharp drink.

Cure gravel: Crickets with 10 heads, yellow stars, and fine powder; 30 g pruning needle cut, sharpened to get water Drink powdered crickets with water with a draft needle twice a day.