The correct way to take earthworms is to take them internally in a decoction or in a powdered form.
Earthworm is the dried body of the female insect of the Blattidae family of softshell turtles or Jiji softshell turtles. It is salty in taste, cold in nature and slightly toxic. It belongs to the liver meridian. It can be taken in decoction or powdered.
It has the effect of breaking blood and removing blood stasis, connecting bones and renewing tendons. It can be used clinically for treating tendon fracture, bruises, blood stasis and menstrual occlusion (menstrual occlusion due to stagnation of blood stasis), impediment (lumps in women’s lower abdomen), rumpus (a disease with lumps in the abdomen), and post-partum abdominal pain due to stagnation of blood and stagnation.
It is often used together with Panax ginseng, peach kernel and safflower in the treatment of bruises, broken tendons and fractures, and is often combined with rhubarb and peach kernel in the treatment of blood stasis, menstrual stagnation and postpartum stagnation and abdominal pain.
This product is prohibited for pregnant women. The use of traditional Chinese medicine should be guided by a professional physician, and should not be used on its own, in order to avoid adverse consequences.