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🌿 Herb

Gadfly

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🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Meng Chong
中文名 (Chinese)
虻虫
Latin Name
Tabanus
English Name
Gadfly
Alias Names
蜚虻; 牛虻; 牛蚊子; 绿头猛钻; 牛苍蝇; 瞎虻虫; 瞎蚂蜂; 瞎蠓; 牛魔蚊; 牛蝇子; 瞎眼蠓
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Bitter; Slightly Cold
Meridians (归经)
Liver
Part Used
Dry body of female mature insect
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Blood activation and stasis removal
功效分类 (CN)
活血化淤
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
Treament of: 1. amenorrhea or abdominal and epigastric masses caused by blood stagnation. gadfly (mengchong) is used with leech (shuizhi), cockroach (chechong), peach seed (taoren) and rhubarb (dahuang) in the formula dahuang zhechong wan. 2. pain due to external injury. gadfly (mengchong) is used with frankincense (ruxiang), myrrh (moyao) and peach seed (taoren).
Indication (主治)
Treament of: 1. amenorrhea or abdominal and epigastric masses caused by blood stagnation. gadfly (mengchong) is used with leech (shuizhi), cockroach (chechong), peach seed (taoren) and rhubarb (dahuang) in the formula dahuang zhechong wan. 2. pain due to
Toxicity
Toxic
🔗 External References
TCMID
6298
TCM-ID
1471
🔍 Raw view — every non-empty column on this row (29 fields)
name
Gadfly
chinese name
虻虫
pinyin name
Meng Chong
latin name
Tabanus
english name
Gadfly
properties english
Bitter; Slightly Cold
meridians english
Liver
use part
Dry body of female mature insect
tcmid id
6298
herb id str
HERB003898
function text
Treament of: 1. amenorrhea or abdominal and epigastric masses caused by blood stagnation. gadfly (mengchong) is used with leech (shuizhi), cockroach (chechong), peach seed (taoren) and rhubarb (dahuang) in the formula dahuang zhechong wan. 2. pain due to external injury. gadfly (mengchong) is used with frankincense (ruxiang), myrrh (moyao) and peach seed (taoren).
indication
Treament of: 1. amenorrhea or abdominal and epigastric masses caused by blood stagnation. gadfly (mengchong) is used with leech (shuizhi), cockroach (chechong), peach seed (taoren) and rhubarb (dahuang) in the formula dahuang zhechong wan. 2. pain due to
toxicity
Toxic
therapeutic en class
Blood activation and stasis removal
therapeutic cn class
活血化淤
tcm id id
1471
alias name
蜚虻; 牛虻; 牛蚊子; 绿头猛钻; 牛苍蝇; 瞎虻虫; 瞎蚂蜂; 瞎蠓; 牛魔蚊; 牛蝇子; 瞎眼蠓
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