Di Long
Name: Earthworm (地龍)
Pinyin: Di Long
Pharm. Name: Lumbricus
Properties:
|
Taste |
Characteristics |
Organs |
Dosage |
|
Salty |
Clear heat and extinguish wind, unblock collateral, relieve dyspnea, induce diuresis. |
Bladder, Liver, Lung, Spleen, Stomach, Kidney |
4-15g |
Description:
Being salty and cold in property, it can clear heat and extinguish wind property. For manic-depressive psychosis and fright epilepsy due to generation of wind by extreme heat in epidemic warm diseases, with symptoms such as coma, spasm, convulsions, it is indicated singly or combined with heat-clearing and phlegm-resolving herbs, wind-extinguishing and spasm-stopping herbs and resuscitative herbs. With action of unblocking collateral, it is indicated for wind-arthralgia. Being cold in nature, it can be indicated for heat arthralgia with symptoms such as red, swollen, painful joints and limited flexing and extending of joints.