The efficacy and effects of mealybug

Mealybug, also known as big gecko and immortal toad, is a kind of small and medium-sized lizard, which belongs to the national level 2 protected animals and is a kind of medicinal animal with high medicinal value. Mealybug medicine is salty, flat and belongs to the kidney and lung meridian, which can cure diseases and nourish.

Nourish the lung and benefit the kidney

Mealybugs enter the two meridians of lung and kidney, and are good at supplementing lung energy, helping kidney yang, and fixing asthma and cough, and are good for treating a variety of deficiency cough and asthma. It is often used to treat deficiency of lung and kidney, shortness of breath, coughing and coughing with blood.

Promote Yang and benefit essence

Mealybug is moist and not dry, it can nourish the kidney and help Yang while benefiting the essence and nourishing the blood, and it has the effect of consolidating and nourishing the essence.

Enhance the chance of conception

Experiments have shown that mealybug alcohol extract of GEA prolongs the estrus period in normal female mice and the estrus period in de-ovulated mice; and increases the weight of uterus and ovaries (in normal mice). The alcoholic extract of mealybug (GEA) has a direct effect on the female rats' appendages (uterus and vagina), therefore, mealybug has the effect of enhancing female conception. Note: The alcoholic extracts of both the body and tail of mealybug can advance the opening of the vagina in young female mice, therefore, this drug should not be used in children to avoid premature maturation.

Improve male function

The alcoholic extract of mealybug showed androgenic effect by the weight of prostate, seminal vesicle and levator muscle in mice. The alcoholic extracts of both the body and tail of mealybug can increase the weight of seminal vesicles and prostate gland of male rats, and show androgen-like effects, which can enhance male sexual function and have certain effects on the treatment of male infertility.

Anti-asthmatic

The alcoholic extract of mealybug has a significant calming effect on acetylcholine-induced asthma in guinea pigs, and also has a direct relaxing effect on the isolated trachea of guinea pigs. The reason is that the alcoholic extract of mealybug has a relaxing effect on pacification and can relax the smooth muscle of the airway to relieve asthma.

Enhancement of immunity

The alcoholic extract of mealybug can enhance the motility of guinea pig leukocytes, the phagocytosis of bacteria by lung and bronchial phagocytes and the phagocytosis of peritoneal phagocytes. Mealybug extract can significantly increase the spleen weight of mice and counteract the immunosuppressive effect of prednisolone. It can also improve the contouring index of intravenously injected carbon particles in mice and increase the hemolysis content of serum after immunization in normal mice. The alcoholic extract of mealybug tail could enhance the lysozyme activity in serum, improve antibody potency and increase the conversion rate of lymphocytes in mice. It indicates that mealybug has immune enhancing effect.

How to eat mealybug

Ginseng and mealybug cake

Ingredients: 25 grams of ginseng, 100 grams of beeswax, 1 pair of mealybug, and the right amount of glutinous rice. Method. 1. Cook the mealybug with wine and honey, dry it at low temperature and grind it finely with ginseng after it is cold. 2. Melt the beeswax, filter the impurities with gauze, and make 25 medicinal cakes with the powder. Usage: Take 1 bowl of glutinous rice porridge and 1 cake of medicine each time you take medicine, chew and take it down, once in the morning and once in the evening. Effects: Tonifying lung energy, benefiting the spleen and kidney, and relieving asthma. It is used for cough and asthma, shortness of breath, edema of limbs and other evidence of deficiency of lung and kidney.