Chinese medicine believes that the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) has the effects of promoting urination, treating malaria, softening hardness and dissipating masses, and detoxifying and removing decay. It is commonly used for urinary tract infections, malaria, abdominal masses, scrofula tuberculosis, and chronic non-healing ulcers. It is also used in modern medicine to treat kidney stones. Let's take a look at the efficacy, functions, and biological characteristics of bullfrog.
【Efficacy and Functions of Bullfrog】
Chinese medicine believes that the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) has the effects of promoting urination, treating malaria, softening hardness and dissipating masses, and detoxifying and removing decay. It is commonly used for urinary tract infections, malaria, abdominal masses, scrofula tuberculosis, and chronic non-healing ulcers. It is also used in modern medicine to treat kidney stones.
1. "Sheng Cao Yao Xing Bei Yao": "Treats scrofula, disperses and resolves at the early stage, breaks down and detoxifies wounds."
2. "Ben Cao Qiu Yuan": "Clears the channels and promotes urination. Bullfrog is used to treat urinary tract infections, fried and ground with white sugar water."
3. "Compilation of Folk Commonly Used Herbs": "Cures ulcers."
4. "Lu Chuan Ben Cao": "Treats wind-phlegm in children, spasm, urinary tract infections, and applies to carbuncles."
5. "Sichuan Materia Medica": "Treats malaria, abdominal masses, constipation, and removes bamboo thorns and iron sand from the flesh."
【Biological Characteristics of Bullfrog】
The bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) feeds on ants, flies, small spiders, and small insects that pass by its burrow. It lives in alkaline sandy soil underneath dry, windproof, and rainproof walls!
The bullfrog larvae leave a small pit on loose yellow soil, which serves as a trap for capturing prey.
Some places have many of these "small soil pits", and the bullfrog hides in the soil of these pits. Once prey falls in, it will come out and eat it.
Its adult is called "ant lion", which may be familiar as it often flies into houses for no reason at night and flies around the chandelier. It turns out that it is the adult form of the "ant lion".
The adult bullfrog lives in grass and often flies during dusk. The larvae live in dry sandy soil and dig funnel-shaped burrows, lurking at the bottom of the burrow, waiting for small insects to fall in to prey on them. It is distributed in South China, Taiwan, Sichuan, and other places.
"Ben Cao Shi Yi": "The sand tiger has poison and can kill birds and animals. It is used in combination with arrows. It lives in sand and stones and creates spiral holes. There are insects like soybeans with spines on their backs. They can walk backwards, also known as walking backwards dogs. They are sleepy by nature and are also called sleeping insects."
