Pangolins are a precious animal-based medicinal material. How much do you know about them?

Pangolin is a traditional Chinese medicine containing multiple amino acids and trace elements, and it was widely used by people in ancient times. However, because pangolins are now listed as a national first-class protected animal, pangolins are becoming increasingly rare today. Even so, we should still learn about and understand the effects and functions of pangolin.

The pangolin we refer to today does not mean the whole pangolin, but only the outer shell of the pangolin. This shell can be processed into pangolin scales.

Effects and functions

It can invigorate the blood, resolve stasis, dissipate nodules, eliminate carbuncles, unblock menstruation and promote lactation, reduce swelling and draw out pus; it is used for blood stasis amenorrhea, abdominal masses, rheumatic arthralgia, failure of milk to descend, carbuncle swelling, scrofula and other conditions.

>>>>Unblocking menstruation and promoting lactation

Pangolin scales can promote milk flow and lactation, and have a very good milk-promoting effect for insufficient milk secretion in postpartum women, and failure to produce milk caused by later environmental factors. Generally, about ten grams can be added when stewing pig trotters. It can also treat breast swelling in women, lobular hyperplasia, and swelling caused by blocked milk ducts during lactation.

>>>>Regulating menstruation

Pangolin scales also have the effect of invigorating the blood and regulating menstruation, and are used to treat reduced menstruation in women, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, dark menstrual blood and so on.

>>>>Dispelling wind and removing dampness

Pangolin scales have a very good therapeutic effect on waist and leg bone and joint pain, rheumatic arthralgia, difficulty in flexion and extension, stroke paralysis, scabies, wind leprosy and so on caused by wind-cold-dampness pathogens blocking the meridians and qi and blood congealing and failing to flow freely.

>>>>Purging stagnation and reducing distension, aiding digestion

It is used for indigestion and internal retention of food accumulation, and can help eliminate food stagnation and restore the transforming and transporting function of the spleen and stomach. As a precious medicinal material for aiding digestion and regulating the spleen and stomach, Zhongjing Taizi Jin also includes pangolin as one of its ingredients. Aimed at the growth and development characteristics of infants and young children, it is scientifically formulated. While eliminating food accumulation and increasing appetite, it pays more attention to regulating the spleen and stomach of children.

>>>>Invigorating the blood and dissipating nodules, reducing swelling and relieving pain

For carbuncle swelling at the initial stage with redness, swelling, heat and pain, traumatic injury, joint swelling, hypochondriac pain, hemiplegia, as well as various lymph node enlargements, tumor masses and various cancers, pangolin can be used for treatment.

The medicinal material is precious, but it must be used with caution

Pangolin may only be purchased and used in limited quantities after approval by the national wild animal business and utilization management department. Output is small and the price is high. But even such a precious medicinal material cannot be used casually, because pangolin itself is toxic and must be processed before use, and improper use can also cause many side effects. Therefore, when using it, the dosage must be controlled, and it is best to use it under the guidance of experts.