Jiang Can
| Jiang Can in TCM:Explore the properties of Jiang Can according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: sick silkworm, silkworm with batrytis
Pharmacuetical Name: Bombyx Batryticatus
Properties: salty, acrid, neutral
Temperature: neutral
Channels: LU, LV
Flavors: salty, pungent
Special Properties:
resolves phlegm, reduces swelling
Actions / Indications:
- Extinguishes wind; stops spasms and convulsions (LV
wind with phlegm accumulation, childhood convulsions, facial paralysis,
seizures, wind-stroke aphasia)
- Expels wind; stops pain (headache due to LYR, red
eyes, red, swollen, painful throat, loss of voice due to external wind;
itching wind rash)
- Transforms phlegm; dissipates nodules (phlegm-heat
scrofula, phlegm damp nodules; also for mumps, carbuncles, breast cysts)
Special Notes:
- (note: compare to Bai Fu Zi)
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