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Di Long地龙

PheretimaEarthworm

Autres nomsLumbricus · Lumbricus

Catégorie
Plantes qui éteignent le Vent interne
Nature
froid
Saveur
salé
Tropisme
Vessie, Foie, Poumon, Rate
Méridiens secondaires
Estomac, Rein
Posologie
4–15 g

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Actions & indications

Drains Heat, settles convulsions, extinguishes Wind and stops spasms
  • Extreme Heat generating Wind with loss of consciousness, incoherent speech, convulsions and seizures
  • It can be used alone
  • It has recently been used to treat schizophrenia of the hot-manic type
Clears Heat and unblocks and promotes movement in the channels and collaterals
  • Hot or Cold Bi (with appropriate herbs) with swollen, painful joints and a reduced range of motion
  • Hemiplegia due to lack of flow in the channels such as the sequelae of Wind-Stroke
Clears Heat and calms wheezing
Wheezing due to Lung Heat (can be taken alone as a powder, in capsules or decocted with sugar as a syrup)
Clears Heat and promotes urination
  • Hot, painful urinary dysfunction, edema (severe cases), ascites and jaundice
  • Especially useful for Heat clumping in the Bladder with urinary difficulty or inability to urinate (can be used alone)
Anchors Liver Yang and lowers Blood pressure
Hypertension due to Liver Yang Rising
Promotes healing topically
Acute parotitis, chronic ulcers of the lower limbs, burns, boils or carbuncles (powder, mix with sugar and apply topically)

Contre-indications

  • Avoid use in Shang Han conditions, except for Yang Ming Heat with restlessness.
  • Avoid use in Warm pathogen disease when high fever is absent.
  • Avoid use in Spleen-Stomach weakness and Deficiency.
  • Use with caution in pregnancy.

Associations

Notes

  • It can be used on its own to relieve spasms.
  • Because of its ability to open and penetrate, this herb treats Heat-induced spasms and convulsions and is effective for wheezing and Bi pain.
  • It is useful for whooping cough or bronchial spasms accompanied by Phlegm.
  • It treats abdominal masses.
  • It suppresses the growth of cancer cells.
  • It has demonstrated efficacy against Colon and Liver cancers.
  • It treats swelling and nasal polyps.
  • It reduces high fever caused by External Wind invasion.
  • According to some sources, it calms the Shen, settles fright and suppresses astonishment.
  • Fresh Pheretima, Xian Di Long, is ground with sugar and applied topically for burns, chronic lower-limb ulcerations or mumps.
  • Fresh Pheretima, Xian Di Long, ground with sugar and water, is used to treat schizophrenia or mania accompanied by high fever.
  • Di Long and Arisaema cum Bile Dan Nan Xing both settle jitteriness and convulsions, addressing restlessness and convulsions from high fever, cough and wheezing from Lung Fire and Heat, and impaired limb movement following Wind-Stroke or hemiplegia. Di Long has the stronger effect on clearing Heat and calming the Liver; it treats asthma and the dyspnea of bronchiolitis, tends toward unblocking the collaterals, and is mainly used for paralysis. Dan Nan Xing has the stronger effect on expelling Wind, transforming Phlegm and settling convulsions, and is used more often for spasmodic cough and wheezing from hot Phlegm obstructing the Lungs, as in childhood pneumonia or acute bronchitis; it also tends toward expelling Wind and transforming Phlegm, and treats loss of consciousness from Phlegm-Heat in Wind-Stroke.
  • Wine-fried Earthworm, Jiu Chao Di Long, is easier to grind into powder.

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