Difference between revisions of "Jiang Can"

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Other Names : Bombyx Batryticatus, 僵蠶 - Bombyx Batryticatus, Bombyx Batryticatus, Silkworm, Bombyx Mori, Silkworm Larva

Special Precautions of Jiang Can

• Contraindicated when there are no externally contracted pathogenic factors.
• Contraindicated for those with anemia.
• Antagonizes Rx. Platycodi Jie Geng.
• Antagonizes Poria Fu Ling.
• Antagonizes Rz. Dioscoreae Hypoglaucae Bei Xie.
• Antagonizes Ootheca Mantidis Sang Piao Xiao.

Benefits and uses of Jiang Can are

• Extinguishes liver wind, stops spasms and convulsions - childhood convulsions or facial paralysis, seizures from liver-wind or wind-phlegm-heat.
• Expels wind, stops pain - headache, red eyes, sore, swollen throat from an OPI or liver wind, loss of voice.
• Transforms phlegm, dissipates nodules - phlegm-heat scrofula and other phlegm nodules.
• Expels wind and stops itching.
• Extinguishes Wind and stops spasms and convulsions
  • Childhood convulsions and facial paralysis
  • Seizures due to Liver Wind or especially Wind-Phlegm-Heat
• Dispels Wind, disperses Wind-Heat and stops itching and pain
  • Headache, red eyes, a sore, swollen throat and itching skin lesions such as Wind-Rash from externally contracted Wind-Heat or Liver Wind
  • Loss of voice
• Transforms Phlegm, softens hardnesses, eliminates toxins and dissipates nodules
  • Phlegm-Heat scrofula and other Phlegm nodules

Used in Patent Medecines

• Hui Chun Wan
• Sharbat Sadar