Stiff Silkworm
Bombyx Batryticatus
Jiang Can

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Salty; pungent; calm

Part(s) used

Dried whole body infected with beauveria bassiana (bals.) vuillant

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

1. treatment of convulsions due to high fever and epileptic spasms. white-stiff silkworm (baijiangcan) is used with gastrodia tuber (tianma), arisaema tuber with bile (dannanxing) and ox gallstone (niuhuang) in the formula qianjin san. 2. treatment of chronic convulsions with prolo

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

1. treatment of convulsions due to high fever and epileptic spasms. white-stiff silkworm (baijiangcan) is used with gastrodia tuber (tianma), arisaema tuber with bile (dannanxing) and ox gallstone (niuhuang) in the formula qianjin san. 2. treatment of chr