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Stiff Silkworm

Stiff Silkworm. Class: Liver-Pacifying Wind-Extinguishing Medicinal. Properties: Salty; Pungent; Calm. Meridians: Liver; Lung; Stomach

🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Jiang Can
中文名 (Chinese)
僵蚕
Latin Name
Bombyx Batryticatus
English Name
Stiff Silkworm
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Salty; Pungent; Calm
Meridians (归经)
Liver; Lung; Stomach
Part Used
Dried whole body infected with beauveria bassiana (bals.) vuillant
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Liver-Pacifying Wind-Extinguishing Medicinal
功效分类 (CN)
平肝熄风药
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
1. treatment of convulsions due to high fever and epileptic spasms. white-stiff silkworm (baijiangcan) is used with gastrodia tuber (tianma), arisaema tuber with bile (dannanxing) and ox gallstone (niuhuang) in the formula qianjin san. 2. treatment of chronic convulsions with prolo
Indication (主治)
1. treatment of convulsions due to high fever and epileptic spasms. white-stiff silkworm (baijiangcan) is used with gastrodia tuber (tianma), arisaema tuber with bile (dannanxing) and ox gallstone (niuhuang) in the formula qianjin san. 2. treatment of chr
🔗 External References
TCMID
6890
TCM-ID
1060