Chinese medicine "Golden Sand Bull" is the dried larvae of ants in the ant subfamily Formicinae or ants. It is captured during the high temperature of summer and autumn. Let's take a look at its storage and efficacy together with the editor!
Effects of the Golden Sand Bull
【Packaging and Storage】It is loaded in cloth bags and stored in a dry place to prevent mold and moth.
【Ingredients】The whole insect of the ant contains proteins, lipids, amino acids, sterols, pigments, etc. Each male insect secretes 0.5 micrograms of nerolidol. Each female insect secretes 0.05 micrograms of nerolidol oxide.
【Processing】Remove impurities and clean.
Origin: Produced in Conghua, Huidong, Zijin, Heping, Qujiang, Wengyuan, Nanxiong, Shixing, Lechang, Renhua, Guangning, Zhuhai, Doumen, Meixian, Jiangmen, Maoming, Zhanjiang, and other cities and counties in Guangdong Province.
Harvest and processing: It is suitable for capturing during the high temperature of summer and autumn. After capture, it is stir-fried in hot sand until it expands, then taken out and sifted to remove sand.
Characteristics: The insect body is coarse and granular, 0.7 to 1 centimeter long, yellow-brown or light brown, and covered with short hairs.
There are pincer-like mandibles at the front end of the head. The abdomen is swollen or slightly swollen due to frying, with several ring marks and black spots.
Three pairs of thoracic legs. The head and legs are mostly detached due to frying. The body is light and brittle. It has a slight fishy smell and a slightly salty taste.
Quality requirements: It is best to have a large and swollen body, yellow-brown in color, and intact without breakage.
Taste: Salty, spicy, warm; slightly toxic.
Meridian attribution: Liver, kidney, bladder meridians.
Efficacy: Diuretic, anti-inflammatory, detoxifying, anti-malaria. Used for sand lin, malaria;
