Herb

Insect wax (Chong bai la)

虫白蜡chong bai la
1 sourceCera Chinensis

Recorded in Bencao Gangmu for engendering flesh, staunching blood and relieving pain, supplementing vacuity and knitting sinew and bone, and (in pills) for killing consumption worms.

Source

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷三十九·虫部·卵生类上·虫白蜡·主治

References
  • functions_en self-translated from 本草纲目 traditional_functions (public domain; the Chinese tf carries verbatim excerpt_hash citations). No modern work consulted.
  • WHO IST-TCM terminology-aligned for the English rendering.
  • public pharmacopoeia & zoological facts (public-domain reference facts; no proprietary modern source).
Traditional functions

Classical source text (Chinese) — English summary above.

传统中医记载：生肌止血定痛，补虚续筋接骨；入丸散服，杀瘵虫。

Nature, flavor & meridians

Nature & flavor: 甘，温，无毒。

Citations
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十九·虫部·卵生类上·虫白蜡·条名Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its classification.
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十九·虫部·卵生类上·虫白蜡·气味Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its nature & flavor.
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十九·虫部·卵生类上·虫白蜡·主治Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.