Silkworm cocoon

[ source ] from the" compendium of Materia Medica": pod, recipe book multipurpose, and various herbal not having short, Cheng wen. The treated with superficial needle, a is a head, two out of two head. Governance Xiaoke soup, Cuba is known. Dan Zhu said it can heat from the bladder in fire, leading to the air in the mouth, thirst and.
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English name [ ] Silk Cocoon
[ alias ] silkworm cocoon, cocoon of silkworm cocoon shell, yellow, cotton
[ source ]
Medicine source: Bombycidae animal home silkworm cocoon shell.
Latin animal mineral name: Bombyx Mori L.
Harvest and storage: Xia Yue collection hatching of silkworm cocoon shell, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Bombyx mori, female, male moth body densely white scales. Body length1.6-2.3cm. The wing exhibition3.9-4.3cm. Body fin yellowish white to gray. The outer wing angle after direction within the undercut, the line color darker, less obvious, line and vein taupe, hind wing a forewing pale, margin scaly Mao Shaochang. Female moths of abdominal fat, tip obtuse; male moth abdomen is narrow, slightly pointed end. The larvae of silkworm body color is gray to white, chest second, section third, a slight enlargement, with wrinkles. Abdominal section eighth has a back side and end angle.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: in most parts of China, have raised.
Resource distribution: wide distribution.
[ character ] character identification, pod long oval or intermediate slightly constricted, length 3-4cm, diameter 1.7-2.1cm. The surface of white or pale yellow, with irregular wrinkles, and the attachment of the silk, plastic villous. The inner wall of the wire is regular. Light and flexible, easy tear. Slightly fishy, mild.
[ ] Lu chemical composition of mulberry rearing silkworm, cocoon is as follows: the chemical composition of water1.40%, ash 1.14%, protein 97.34%, ether extract0.26%, fiber 0.39%. The cocoon is mainly composed of fibrous protein fibroin ( Fibroin ), outsourced to another protein, sericin protein ( Sericin ) bonding, in addition still containing a small amount of grease, inorganic pigment, etc.. In the raw silk, silk fibroin accounted for about 70%, accounting for about 22% of sericin protein. Silk fibroin is a keratin, its constituent amino acids, glycine, alanine with most, the two amino acid nitrogen, accounting for about80% of the total nitrogen. 105g silk fibroin amino acids ( such as material after the digital, is a mole number:578) glycine, alanine valine leucine381,29,7,9157 to serine, threonine isoleucine, phenylalanine tyrosine12,67,8,5 and2proline, tryptophan, histidine lysine 4,2,6 arginine, asparagine arginine glutamic acid17,13, a total of 1297molar. Sericin is also the keratin, the composition of amino acids in general and silk fibroin similarity, difference in glycine, alanine micro, tyrosine, serine, less; glutamate aspartate more. Cocoon and free amino acid in50mg% ( to glycine. ). Silk cocoon oil waxy substance, from primary alcohols ( C28-C32), solid fatty acid ( C26-C32), ( C25-C31) and liquid paraffin fatty acid. And the valley containing steroid leaven ( into glucoside ) and hops fatty alcohols ( Lupeol ). Yellow cocoon containing pigment has a variety of carotene derivatives, which are also the yellow orange, pink, beige color cocoon pigment. Green cocoon pigment, some with flavonoids, some with chlorophyll, especially wild cocoon. There are many kinds of cocoon pigment, someone from the green pod into7 kinds of yellow green fluorescent pigment and2yellow brown fluorescent pigment; and others identified 9yellow fluorescent pigment, they are flavones glucoside. A variety of cocoon, per gram of iron containing10.08-49.16g and quite a lot of fluorine. Every kilograms of white cocoon containing manganese containing 8.48mg7.06mg, yellow cocoon. Each gram of white cocoon containing zinc yellow cocoon containing3.19 g,3.67 G.
[ ] silkworm cocoon with pharmacological effects of cholinergic function. First with petroleum ether, ethyl ether, chloroform treated pod90% ethanol extract on blood pressure in anesthetized cats, the isolated guinea pig ileum and duodenum of rabbits are present cholinergic effect; but in the frog rectus abdominis muscle specimens, no effect on striated muscle.
[ ] the silkworm cocoon processing cut, to make internal impurities. Or holding tank, calcined deposit in.
[ ] the taste of sweet and warm;
[ ] to the spleen
[ ] hemostatic functions; thirst; detoxification and healing. The main hematochezia; lymph pain hematuria; women with metrorrhagia; diabetes leads to drink; sick leaves food; ulcer pus into Ganchuang collapse;
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,3-10g; or at the end of the inquiry. A: right amount, burned dark, grind end Caesar or powder.
[ attach ]1treatment of intestinal side wind, the size of hematochezia, shower drain pain: yellow, silkworm cocoon shedding of paper ( and burned dark ), late silkworm, Bombyx Batryticatus ( equal and fried ). To the end, into a musk. Each serving of two money, rice drink down, day three. (" Holy Benevolent Prescriptions" cocoon yellow powder ) of governance Xiaoke: cooked cocoon decoction, each serving a. (" the doctor" Chu set. ) in treating infantile world due to smallpox, limb section joints has rickets Phagedena, pus incessant: a moth cocoon cotton, any number, with unripe alum beat broken cocoon, solid, with charcoal, alum juice dry, out to the end. Dry paste Ganchuang mouth. Such as swollen Xing pain, more clothes to drink. (" pediatric pox party on" cotton cocoon for the treatment of nausea vomit ): ten fresh cocoon. Cooking, cooking chicken three pieces of food, with ash free wine, day two. (" Benshi Fang" ) to treat aphthous stomatitis; cocoon burning ash, adjustable honey, wipe mouth. (" Quanzhou Materia Medica" )
[ ] the treatise" schema": burning ash liquor clothing, treats carbuncle swollen without a head, the next day is broken; and the Ganchuang therapy and blood, blood, blood. Cooking juice drink, only diabetes, nausea, in addition to Ascaris lumbricoides.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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