How much does a pair of gecko cost? A detailed explanation of the market prices
The gecko, also known as the large gecko, gecko, immortal toad, etc., is the dried body of the gecko, an animal of the gecko genus in the gecko family. It is distributed in Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places. It has the effects of tonifying the lungs and kidneys, improving qi reception and relieving asthma, and assisting yang and replenishing essence. It is often used for insufficient lung and kidney, asthmatic shortness of breath due to deficiency, chronic cough with blood-streaked sputum, impotence and spermatorrhea and other symptoms. Now let us take a look at how much a pair of gecko costs!
How much does a gecko cost?
The price of gecko is very stable. In medicinal herb markets, generally the large size is 15 to 17 yuan per pair, the medium size is 11 to 13 yuan per pair, and the small size is 8 to 9 yuan per pair. In traditional Chinese medicine shops, it is generally 30 to 40 yuan per pair, but many have already been soaked in medicinal liquor and then dried in the sun for sale, and have long lost their medicinal properties. The purchase price of wild gecko in Debao County, Guangxi, is 100 to 110 yuan each. Wild ones have good medicinal effects and are becoming fewer and fewer, so they are expensive.
Medicinal value of gecko
[Nature and flavor] Salty in taste, neutral in nature.
[Meridian tropism] Lung and kidney meridians.
[Efficacy] Tonify the lungs and kidneys, improve qi reception and relieve asthma, assist yang and replenish essence. It mainly treats insufficient lung and kidney, asthmatic shortness of breath due to deficiency, chronic cough with blood-streaked sputum, impotence, and spermatorrhea.
Medicinal prescriptions of gecko
1. To treat consumptive cough and lung congestion with upward qi: one pair of gecko (with head and tail intact, coated with butter and roasted until yellow), one liang of Fritillaria cirrhosa (roasted until slightly yellow), one liang of Aster tataricus (remove stems and soil), one liang of apricot seed (soaked in hot water, remove skin, tips, and double kernels, stir-fried with bran until slightly yellow), two liang of turtle shell (coated with vinegar and roasted until yellow, remove the skirt-like edge), one liang of Gleditsia sinensis seed (stir-fried until scorched yellow). One liang of mulberry root bark (cut). Grind the above medicines into powder, mix with refined honey and pound three to two hundred times, and make pills the size of firmiana seeds. Take twenty pills each time with jujube soup, three to four times a day. Avoid amaranth.
2. To treat pulmonary tuberculosis cough: one pair of gecko (coated with a little vinegar, roasted until colored), one liang of white sheep lung (divided into three parts), half a liang of Ophiopogon japonicus (remove core, roast), one fen of Tussilago farfara, one fen of Picrorhiza scrophulariiflora. Except for the sheep lung, grind the above medicines into a fine powder. First take one part of the sheep lung, grind it finely in a sand basin into a paste, take one medium cup of ash-free wine, heat it until it bubbles like fish eyes, add the sheep lung, then add three qian of the medicine powder, stir evenly, have the patient lie down, remove the pillow, support the waist with clothing or a mat, and swallow slowly while facing upward, not too quickly.
3. To treat lung cough, facial edema, and edema of the four limbs: one pair of gecko (with male and female, head and tail intact, cleaned, coated with medicinal liquor and honey and roasted until cooked), one plant of ginseng (Zituan ginseng). Grind the above two ingredients into powder, melt four liang of wax, filter out the residue, mix with the medicine powder, and make six cakes. Each time, on an empty stomach, use one cup of thin glutinous rice porridge, put in one medicine cake, and while hot, sip it carefully.
4. To treat cough with facial edema, and elderly lung deficiency cough and asthma: one pair of gecko with tail, coat with honey and wine, roast over fire until crisp, grind into fine powder, add an equal amount of Northeast red ginseng, grind together evenly, refine with honey into pills the size of small beans. Take 3 grams each time, twice a day.
5. To treat chronic cough and pulmonary tuberculosis: roast 10 grams of gecko until dry, 30 grams each of Codonopsis pilosula, Chinese yam, Ophiopogon japonicus, and lily, grind together into powder and make honey pills. Take 3 grams each time, twice a day, with warm boiled water.
6. To treat physical weakness, poor appetite, insomnia and forgetfulness, impotence and premature ejaculation, lung deficiency cough and asthma, and frequent urination at night: one pair of gecko with tail, roast over fire until cooked, 10 to 20 grams of ginseng (or red ginseng), soak together in 2000 grams of liquor, begin drinking after seven days, and drink 20 to 50 milliliters each day as appropriate.