Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) myth - lumbricus and earthworms 

        Earthworm, formerly known as earthworms, increase its value and the dragon is equal, it is said that with the song MAO song taizu. 
 
        According to legend, the song MAO song taizu soon he began to reign, and he suffered from illness "breech fire Dan, his asthma relapse. Racking their brains too hospital medical officer, is still being confronted with rejuvenation, the wrong check, MAO in a rage, will all the treating medical officer were jailed. Later, a medical officer of luoyang in henan province one excels to treat the skin disease of shahe shopkeeper, nickname called "live hole bing", good governance, and so on chapter is recommended. "Live hole bing" came to the palace, filled with soybean form blister MAO ring, waist, like a string of pearls, at that time, MAO asked: "how I sick". "Living hole bing" replied: "the emperor without sorrow, people have a good medicine, coated with a few days will be good". MAO coldly a smile: "many doctors have no way, you dare to say the words". "Live hole bing" way: "if a cure to the disease, under the condition of the people may, if cured, please the emperor to release imprisoned cure too much". MAO replied: "if so, will grant your request". Therefore, "live bing hole" outside the house, open the pot, take out a few earthworms on two plate, sprinkle with bee sugar, make it melt into liquid water. He lint cotton dips in water liquid coating in MAO, MAO immediately feel cool and refreshing and comfortable, much pain relief. He hold on another plate of earthworm juice, let MAO suit. MAO said "this is what medicine to take orally, can use again". "Live bing hole" afraid of telling the truth and being punished by MAO, just random strain, and said, "how can the emperor as the real dragons, the folk customs medicine works, this medicine is called lumbricus, to fill the dragon, dragon will work". MAO after listen to very happy, immediately take. A few days later, MAO's herpes, cough and gasp the check, the pain disappeared, yet again. "Live bing hole" is extremely use up splendor. From then on, the name and function of earthworm is widely spread. 
 
        Earthworm, also known as lumbricus, earthworms, for giant vermis annelid MAO vermis and stripe earthworm mummy, living with fresh or use. Traditional Chinese medicine thinks, the character, salty in taste and cold, into the liver, spleen, lung, bladder, have clear heat XiFeng,, clear lung collaterals, clear heat, diuresis, suitable for strong heat convulsions, seizures, lungs heat to cough and gasp the, rheumatic fever bi, joint swelling pain, flex adverse, heat and bladder, urination, etc. The cold body slippery character, downward discharge reduction, good to heat, liver, XiFeng antispasmodic. "Compendium of materia medica", the "its sex cold and downward, cold in solving the heat disease, is a downward so can urinate, foot disease and the meridian is". Pharmacological studies have shown that contains the earthworm antipyretic alkali, earthworm, worms, toxins, antipyretic and sedative, anticonvulsants, dilated bronchi. Introduce three lumbricus dietotherapy medicinal food fang, for selection. 
 
        1. Peach kernel lumbricus bread: peach kernel 20, 30 grams of lumbricus, safflower, angelica sinensis, rhizoma ligustici wallichii each 10 grams, astragalus root, 100 grams, corn flour, 400 g, 100 g XiaoMaiMian, white sugar right amount. Peach kernel, peel slightly Fried after pulverization, lumbricus porphyrization after wine Fried at the end of the residual liquid medicine Fried juice, with medicine juice and corn flour, XiaoMaiMian, earthworm powder and sugar, made into small cakes, and at the end of the peach kernel, flipping cooked to eat, daily 1 agent. Can fill gas blood, collaterals, applicable to qi deficiency blood stasis of hemiplegia, limb soft weakness, bad language, mouth askew, sallow complexion or dim flatness, etc. 
 
        2. Lumbricus braised chicken feet: 30 grams of lumbricus, chicken feet only 10, condiment in moderation. Will live fresh earthworm water 24 hours a day, make it pours out sediment fluid, and then into the pot. Fried lumbricus juice 100 ml. Wash chicken feet and dry in pan Fried to claw skin bubbles out. With cooking wine, vinegar, garlic, ginger, refined salt, wet starch hook into sauce, in the pan, add chicken feet, small fire stew for 30 minutes, and then add lumbricus juice, a little like that, 3 1 agent. Can nourish the liver and kidney, diuresis loose. Apply to the sequela, diabetic foot, etc. 
 
        3. The wax gourd braised lumbricus: lumbricus 30 grams, white gourd 500 grams, condiment in moderation. The earthworm drying, research at the end of the backup. Remove the pulp, winter melon plane net outer epidermis, wash, cut, born in a little hot boiling water pot to a half off. Casserole add right amount clear soup inside, mixed oil, garlic, SSP, etc., high heat after boiling, then into the wax gourd, the end of the earthworm, simmer until winter melon mature, added salt, pepper, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, seasoning, namely daily 1 agent. T2dm with wind, the water dropping. Apply to the sequela, obesity, coronary heart disease, kidney disease syndrome, etc.
 
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