Herb

Mantis egg-case (Sang piao xiao)

桑螵蛸sang piao xiao
1 sourceOotheca Mantidis

Recorded in Bencao Gangmu for impotence and hernial masses, boosting essence, for women's amenorrhea and lumbar pain, freeing strangury, and for male vacuity with seminal emission and enuresis.

Source

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷三十九·虫部·卵生类上·桑螵蛸·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：伤中疝瘕阴痿，益精生子，女子血闭腰痛，通五淋，利小便水道；疗男子虚损，五脏气微，梦寐失精遗溺。

Nature, flavor & meridians

Nature & flavor: 咸、甘，平，无毒。

Citations
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十九·虫部·卵生类上·桑螵蛸·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·桑螵蛸·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·桑螵蛸·主治Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.