What are the medicinal values of pangolin? Detailed explanation of its effects and actions
Pangolin, also known as lingli, lingli, longli, shilingyu, etc., is a small animal that has long lived deep in the mountains. It has extremely high medicinal value and has good nourishing effects for people's health care, but it cannot be used directly as medicine and needs to be processed before consumption. Now let us take a look at the medicinal value of pangolin together!
The medicinal value of pangolin
[Nature and flavor] Salty in flavor, slightly cold in nature.
[Meridian entry] Liver and stomach meridians.
[Effects] Invigorates blood and dissipates masses, unblocks menstruation and promotes lactation, reduces abscesses and softens hardness. Mainly treats blood stasis amenorrhea, abdominal masses, rheumatic arthralgia, failure of milk secretion, carbuncles and swelling, and scrofula. It is used for conditions such as amenorrhea with abdominal masses, obstructed milk flow, carbuncle swelling and sore toxin, joint arthralgia, and numbness and contracture.
The medicinal effects of pangolin
1. Unblocking menstruation and promoting lactation: When a woman has amenorrhea, 6 grams of fried pangolin scale powder can be taken with yellow rice wine, divided into 3 doses, and stopped once menstruation begins. As for treating obstructed milk secretion after childbirth, take 10 grams of prepared pangolin scales, 10 grams of cowherb seed (Wangbuliuxing), 6 grams of ricepaperplant pith (Tongcao), and 10 grams of angelica, and decoct in water for oral administration. There is a folk saying: “Pangolin and cowherb seed, once a woman eats them, her milk flows freely.”
2. Removing blood stasis and dissipating masses: Specifically, all cases of traumatic injury, joint swelling, hypochondriac pain, hemiplegia, as well as various enlarged lymph nodes and tumor masses (including various cancers) can be treated with pangolin. In order to increase the medicinal power, it should also be used together with peach kernel, sanleng, ezhu, salvia, turtle shell, etc. When prescribing, specific adjustments should be made according to the severity of the condition and the strength of the constitution.
3. Reducing abscesses and discharging pus: “Records of Chinese Medicine with Reference to Western Medicine” says: “Pangolin is bland in taste and neutral in nature, fishy in odor and piercing in action. Its piercing nature reaches everywhere without exception, so it can diffuse and unblock the viscera, penetrate the meridians and collaterals, and reach the joints and orifices. All diseases caused by blood coagulation and blood accumulation can be opened by it. Using it to treat abscesses, one may use it boldly and see effects immediately.” When treating carbuncles and abscesses without a head, take 30 grams of pangolin scales, roast them together until scorched yellow, grind into fine powder, and take 3 grams each time, mixed with hot wine. If the sore has already ulcerated, add winter melon vine, grind into powder, and apply to the affected area. If the sore is dry, mix with water and apply. All furuncles and sores and swellings can be treated with it.
4. External use for stopping bleeding: When used to stop bleeding, take clean pangolin scales, place them in heated vegetable oil, fry until yellow (do not overcook), sun-dry or naturally evaporate to remove the oil, then grind into an extremely fine powder, divide into high-temperature-resistant bottles, sterilize under high pressure, and then dry in an oven to obtain pangolin hemostatic powder. When using, quickly sprinkle the hemostatic powder evenly on the bleeding site, then gently apply pressure and bandage.
Medicinal accompanying prescriptions for pangolin
1. To treat carbuncles and abscesses without a head: Pangolin and pig tooth soap pod (peeled, with strings removed) one liang each. Roast together until scorched yellow and grind into powder. Use one qian each time, mixed with hot wine. If the sore ruptures, apply winter melon vine powder; if the sore is dry, mix with water and apply. All furuncles and sores can use this.
2. To treat swelling and toxin at the initial stage: Insert pangolin into hot ash with grain awns, roast until scorched and grind into two liang of powder, add a little musk. Take two qian and a half each time, with warm wine.
3. To treat carbuncles and abscesses, support the toxin and discharge pus, when the five toxins attach to the bones and are in the viscera, support out the toxic qi, relieve pain and reduce swelling internally: One liang of honeycomb, pangolin, snake slough, and oiled hair (all burned while retaining their nature) one fen each. Grind the above into powder. Take two qian each time, add half a qian of frankincense powder, and take with warm wine.
4. To treat breast pain from blocked milk that is unbearable: Pangolin (roasted yellow) and mutong one liang each, natural copper half a liang (used raw). Grind the three ingredients into powder. Take two qian each time, mix with warm wine, without regard to time.
5. To treat obstructed milk flow: Prepared pangolin, grind into powder, take one square-inch spoon with wine, twice a day.
6. To treat venereal toxin and venereal abscess: Half a liang of pangolin, two qian of polyporus. Both are roasted with vinegar and ground into powder. Take two qian with wine. Externally, apply pangolin powder mixed with sesame oil and calomel.
7. To treat ear discharge with pus: Burn pangolin while retaining its nature, add a little musk, and blow it into the ear.
8. To treat ulcerated scrofula: Twenty-one pieces of pangolin scales. Burn, grind, and apply.
9. To treat ant fistula sores that are numerous with small holes: Burn pangolin scales. Mix with lard and apply.
10. To treat qi hemorrhoids with pus and blood: One liang of pangolin (burned while retaining its nature), three nutmeg kernels. Grind together into powder. Take two qian mixed with rice water. In severe cases, add one liang of hedgehog skin, burn and include. Stop once the condition improves; there is no need to finish the whole dose.
11. To treat throat lichen: Five fen of pangolin scales (roasted), one white frost plum (roasted), five fen of realgar, one qian of dried alum. Grind the above together into powder. Blow into the throat.
12. To treat stroke with one-sided disabled hand and foot that cannot be raised: Chuanshanjia, red sea clam (the size of a chess piece), and Sichuan aconite (large ones, used raw) two liang each. Grind the above into powder. Use half a liang each time, pound strong scallion white juice, mix into a thick cake about one and a half cun in diameter, stick it on the center of the foot on the affected side, wrap tightly with old silk and bind firmly, sit on a chair in a windless closed room, place a basin of hot water in front of the chair, soak the foot with the medicine in the water, and when sweat appears, immediately remove the medicine. When sweat is about to appear, the body becomes numb; it is best if the sweat spreads all over. It is essential to avoid wind, and naturally the hand and foot can be raised. If the disease is not completely eliminated, after half a month or twenty days, use this method once more. Still take wind-treating and supplementing regulating medicines. Avoid certain foods and distance desires to care for oneself.
13. To treat malaria with heat but no chills: One liang of pangolin, ten dried jujubes. Burn the above together while retaining their nature, grind into fine powder. Take two qian each time, on the day of onset, before sunrise, mix with well water and take.
14. To treat dysentery with tenesmus: Pangolin and good clam powder in equal parts. Grind the above into fine powder. Take one qian each time, mix with good wine and take on an empty stomach.
15. To treat hernia and bladder pain: Three qian of pangolin (fried), two qian of fennel seed. Grind into fine powder. Take two qian each time, send down with boiling water and wine.
16. To treat women's genital protrusion, hard like an egg: Five qian of pangolin. Fry with sand until scorched yellow and grind into powder. Take two qian each time, with wine.
17. To treat smallpox sores turning black: Pangolin, fried with clam powder. Grind into powder. Take five fen each time, add a little musk, and take with warm wine. Redness will then appear.