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Woodlouse Armadillidium

Not yet categorizedWarm
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Traditional recorded function

Break Blood stasis, resolve abdominal masses, promote urination

1. Postpartum urinary retention. Use seven woodlice, roast them, grind into powder, and take with wine. 2. Pursed-mouth umbilical wind. Pound woodlice, squeeze out a little juice, and administer by pouring. 3. Wind toothache. Take one each of woodlice, croton seed kernel, and pepper, grind together into powder, add rice to make pills the size of mung beans. Wrap one pill in cotton and bite on it; when saliva is produced, spit it out. It has a remarkable effect.

Nature & taste

SourWarm無毒

Meridians entered

Liver

Classical source

Lower grade《神農本草經》

味酸溫。主治氣癃不得小便,婦人月閉血瘕,癇痓寒熱,利水道。一名蟠貞,一名伊鹹。生平谷。

Herbal properties

WarmReducingDescendingDispersingDrying

Found in these formulas

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