Silky Ant
Formica Fusca
Hei Ma Yi

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Part(s) used

Body

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To supplement kidney and boost essence, free channels and quicken network vessels, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Kidney vacuity dizziness and tinnitus, insomnia and frequent dreaming, impotence and emission, wind-damp impediment pain, wind stroke with hemiplegia, numbness in limbs, erythematous lupus, chorionitis, dermatomyositis, swollen welling abscess and clove sores, poisonous snake bite.