Bai Bei

[ ] B I B Pinyin name 's keyword I
[ alias ] you, bitch, fat Bai Hai, fat sea, Bai Bei's teeth
[ source ]
Medicine source: Department for baby animals, such as ring Cowrie cowrie shell.
Latin animal mineral name: 1.Monetaria moneta ( Linnaeus ) 2.Monetaria annulus ( Linnaeus )
Harvest and storage: Summer catch, to remove the flesh, washed, dried.
[ ] the original morphology
1 cowrie shells, slightly ovoid, quality strong, general shell length 24-28mm, width of about 20mm, high 10-14mm. Shell back on both sides of the central uplift, thick and flat at the rear of the shell casing, equivalent to 1 / 3, on both sides of a sudden expansion, formation of tubercles. Hull form was shiny enamel, pale yellow, bright yellow or light grayish green, two side edges of color is a pale, back with 2-3 gray green transverse band and less obvious orange fine ring. A completely covered by enamel, without any rib. The base of the shell is smooth, yellowish white. The base of the shell is smooth, yellowish white. An elongated, near white. Two lip teeth each 12-13, more sparsely, white. No operculum. Purple shell surface, soft body, all can be retracted into the casing. Outer membrane stretch back volumes from both sides to subcontract live shell, there are many branched tentacles. Snout short, wide head, long feelers and pointed, prominent in the eyes, antennae of the lateral, foot developed.
2 ring cowrie shells, ovoid, quality strong, general shell length 25-28mm, width of about 19mm, high 13mm around. Shell back around the central uplift, relatively low. Shell back around a clear orange rings, rings usually grayish blue or pale brown; annular outer often white or slightly grayish brown. Base white. An elongated, with the shell length, shell surface purple. The front end of wide, before, after the ditch is short, two lip tooth stout, sparse, extending to the base, number of teeth of the 12 or so.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: 1 live in the intertidal zone in low areas of coral reefs and rocks.
2 live in the intertidal zone of coral reefs and rocks.
Resource distribution: 1 carnivorous, dioecious, spring, summer oviposition, egg yellow. China's distribution in the South China sea.
2 China's distribution in the South China sea.
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Character identification, shell slightly oblate, surface smooth, pale yellow or yellow-white, back blue gray, with white fine lines, mostly with orange red fine lines, some back grayish green or bluish gray, a few have 3 indistinct dark bring, with brown spots. Gas micro, salty taste.
Microscopic identification, ring cowrie shells, grinding sheet, the observed under the magnifying glass is white with fish maw, dry sulfone magnetic particle accumulation, margin obtusely rounded particle.
Pui was belly white, with alum sample particle accumulation, edge of brown, black particle dispersion.
[ ] ring cowrie shell chemical composition content of acidic amino acids. All contain calcium carbonate, sodium, potassium, magnesium, major elements, aluminum, iron and other trace elements, strontium, phosphorus, titanium, lead, zinc, and contains about 14 amino acids, medium content has a larger aspartic acid ( aspartic acid ), glutamate ( glutamic acid ).
[ ] physicochemical identification identification, shell 100g ( 40 mesh sieve ) test-tubes, adding distilled water, 15ml, observe the sedimentation coefficient and suspended matter how many. Ring Cowrie settling time is 2-12min, suspended matter little; Pui the settling time is 15min, suspended matter little; Pui the settling time is 15min, suspended matter very little.
[ ] taste salty taste; cool
[ ] to the liver through the bladder;
[ ] and functions; diuretic treating opacity of the cornea. The main water flotation; painful stranguric urination; hematuria; eye ocular blood; sinusitis; chancre Yin sore
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 5-15g; or into the pill, powder. External: moderate, grind end caesar.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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