What medicinal values does the toad have? A detailed guide in one article
The toad, also called the frog, is an amphibian with many warts on its body surface and venom glands within. It is commonly known as laihama, laici, laigebao. It is fishy in taste, warm in nature, and toxic, and enters the heart meridian. It has effects such as detoxification, pain relief, and opening the orifices. In our country it is divided into two species, the Chinese toad (Bufo gargarizans) and the black-spectacled toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus). The chan su and chan yi extracted from it are medicinal materials in short supply in our country.
The medicinal value of the toad
The toad is an economic animal with very high medicinal value; its whole body is a treasure! Chan su, dried toad skin, chan yi, toad head, toad tongue, toad liver, toad gallbladder and others are all medicinal materials.
1. Chan su: The dried product of the white secretion from the post-orbital glands and skin glands of the toad is called chan su. It is a precious traditional Chinese medicinal material and contains a variety of biological components. Chan su has the effects of detoxification, reducing swelling, relieving pain, and strengthening the heart. It mainly treats furuncles and carbuncles on the back, unnamed swellings and toxic sores, sore throat, toothache, infantile malnutrition, heart failure and so on. Dosage 0.01-0.03 grams, for external use an appropriate amount.
2. Dried toad skin: The dried corpse of the toad with the internal organs removed is dried toad skin. It is cold in nature and bitter in taste, and can be used to treat infantile malnutrition with abdominal distension, chronic bronchitis, sore throat, carbuncles, swellings and toxic sores and other conditions. It has been used for various cancers or in combination with chemotherapy and radiotherapy for cancer treatment; it can not only improve the therapeutic effect, but also reduce side effects and improve the blood picture.
3. Chan yi: Chan yi is the keratinous membrane naturally shed by the toad. It has relatively good therapeutic effects on chronic liver disease, various cancers, chronic bronchitis, ascites, toxic sores and carbuncles and so on. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chan yi has the effects of detoxification, reducing swelling, relieving pain, and dispelling foul turbidity, and it is widely used in the treatment of sores, carbuncles, swellings, toxic sores, sore throat and so on. Modern research believes that chan yi mainly contains bufadienolide compounds, including bufogenins and bufotoxins, and has cardiotonic, blood pressure-raising, and anti-inflammatory effects; bufogenins also have a relatively strong anesthetic effect. Researchers have found that chan yi also has various magical functions such as anti-tumor and anti-viral effects, and can be used to treat various malignant tumors, hepatitis, herpes zoster, hepatic ascites, kidney disease, breast hyperplasia, uterine fibroids and other difficult and complicated diseases.
In addition, the head, tongue, liver and gallbladder of the toad can all be used as medicine; at the same time, toad meat is tender and delicious, and is also a nutritious health-promoting delicacy.
The effects and functions of the toad
1. It can treat vulvar ulceration, malignant gangrenous sores, and bites by rabid dogs. It can combine with jade. It also treats critical cases of warm disease with eruptions; remove the intestines of the toad and pound it raw and eat one or two, and there is no case that does not heal. It can also kill malnutrition worms, and treat scrofula and infantile consumptive emaciation with malnutrition, sallow complexion, and breaking abdominal masses.
2. It mainly treats dispelling pathogenic qi, breaking stones and blood stasis, and carbuncles, swellings and genital sores.
3. The liver treats venomous snake bites when the fangs enter the flesh and the pain is unbearable. Pound the liver into a paste and apply it to the affected area, and it will come out immediately.
4. The gallbladder treats loss of voice and inability to speak in children; take bile and drop it on the tongue, and it will heal immediately.
Medicinal supplementary formulas for the toad
1. To treat pit viper bites: take one live frog, pound it into a paste and apply it to the affected area; it can draw out the snake venom.
2. To treat bites by rabid dogs: eat frog meat, or roast it and eat it.
3. To treat infantile malnutrition with abdominal enlargement, yellow complexion and emaciation, and sores on the head forming wheat-ear-like clusters: take a large frog after the Beginning of Autumn, remove the head, feet and intestines, coat it with clear oil, place it in a yin-yang tile and roast it until cooked, then eat it. Eat five or six in a row, and the malnutrition will come out on its own; after one month, recovery to health is wonderfully indescribable.
4. To treat infantile diarrhea: wrap the frog well and calcine it, then with Coptis chinensis two qian and a half each, indigo naturalis one qian, grind into powder, add a little musk, mix evenly and apply.