The function of water crickets, do crickets drink water?

Note: The following introduction to Chinese herbal medicine crickets is compiled by many Chinese medicine network administrators from the "Chinese Herbal Medicine", "Chinese Pharmacopoeia", "National Collection of Chinese Herbal Medicine" and other materials, the content is for reference and learning only, and should not be used as a reference for private medicine crickets, please use the medicine under the guidance of a doctor.

Name]: Cricket.

English name]: gryllulus

Pinyin]: xī shuài

Aliases]: Oysters, Weaving, Yin, General, Ququ, Maggots, Chickens, Chirps, Cockfights, Crickets, Night Insects.

Category of Medicinal Materials]:

Animals. Sexual taste]:

spicy; Salty; sexual temperature; Petty poison.

Medicinal properties test": pungent and salty, warm.

Guijing]: bladder; Small intestine meridian.

Medication part]:

Cricket family insect cricket, to dry the whole into medicine.

Origin and Distribution]:

Crickets burrow, often inhabit the surface, masonry, soil holes, and grass. Night-out activities. It is mostly distributed in all provinces of the country. It is distributed in Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and other places. The main products are Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Hebei and other places.

Morphological characteristics]:

As for the cricket, the whole is black and shiny. The head is brown, the top of the head is short and rounded, and there are 6 short and irregular longitudinal grooves behind the head. Compound eyes are large, hemispherical, black-brown.

There are 3 in one eye, the smaller one located at the ends of the top of the head and the larger one located in the middle of the head. The antennae are elongated and light brown. The forewings are brown, and the hindwings are grayish-yellow.

Feet 3 pairs, pale yellow, with dark brown spots and curved oblique lines, well-developed hind feet, dorsal with single row of spines, leg segments enlarged. The abdomen is approximately cylindrical, the back is black-brown, and the ventral surface is grayish-yellow.

Dosage]:

Internal: decoction, 4-6 pieces; At the end of the grind, 1-3 pieces. External use: appropriate amount, apply at the end of grinding.

Precautions]:

Weak and pregnant women should not take it.

Efficacy and role of crickets]:

Diuresis reduces swelling. Occlusion; Dropsy; Ascites; Enuresis in children. Treatment of urinary blockage, edema, distention.

Medicinal properties test": can cause acne.

Ren Cheng Diary": Qiashui Gu.

Compendium Notes": Sexual Tongli, treatment of urination closure. Zhao Jichang: If you can't produce it, use one dry person and serve it in decoction.

Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine: Treatment of impotence.

Attached prescription]: The treatment of small water is not good, and the pain is not stopped: Aunt Cricket. Yin and yang tile drying, for the end. Under the white boiling soup, the child is halved. ("Listening to the Doctor's Prescriptions").

Treatment of falls and injuries to the lower abdomen, urine can not be closed: a cricket. Decoction. ("Yang Su Yuan Messenger").

Treatment of urinary construction in the elderly: four crickets, four mole crickets, and one penny of raw licorice. Decoction of soup, served warm in three portions. (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine).

Treatment of enuresis in children: one cricket. Bake, end, roll underwater, according to the age (number) of the servant, such as eleven years old, take one at a time, until eleven. (The Book of the Living Man of Cihang).

Treatment of kidney deficiency and impotence: crickets, dragonflies, dog kidneys. A total of the end, mixed with wine. ("Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine").

It can be used as medicine to nourish yin and kidneys, but it is very expensive.

Crickets drink water, especially fighting crickets; There are two ways to feed crickets, one is to feed dry food, which requires a basin of water, and the other is to feed paste, which does not need to be bowled with water. Water basins are sold in pet markets, and if you don't have them, you can replace them with drink bottle caps. Crickets are an ancient twig-selling insect that has been around for at least 100 million years, and is still the object of fighting in ancient and modern times.

What creatures don't drink water?

Crickets can be fed with water.

Generally, when raising crickets, you only need to keep the living environment moist. There is no need to feed crickets with water, if the food fed has less water, you need to lay a basin or bottle cap in the terrarium and put an appropriate amount of purified water in it. If the food you feed contains a lot of water, you only need to spray the right amount of water with a sprayer to keep the living environment moist.

Crickets are invertebrates, insecta, Orthoptera, and crickets. It is also known as promoting weaving, commonly known as crickets, night insects (because it chirps at night), general insects, autumn insects, fighting cocks, promoting weaving, tending to weaving, ground trumpets, stove chickens, Sun Wang, soil stinging, and "monk" is the name of the cricket before giving birth to wings. According to research, crickets are an ancient insect that is at least 100 million years old and is still the object of fighting in ancient and modern times.

What food do crickets eat

1. In the wild environment, crickets generally feed on the shoots, leaves, roots, seeds, and fruits of plants.

2. If it is artificially raised, artificial feed can be prepared according to the proportion of soybean flour 20%, coarse wheat flour 35%, corn flour 20%, skimmed milk powder 15%, liver meal 5%, dry yeast 5% or corn flour 25%, soybean flour 20%, coarse trouser wheat flour 25%, skimmed milk powder 15%, dry yeast 5%, fish meal 10%, and then feed with a small amount of natural green fodder.

3. If you can't make the proportion of artificial feed or lack of raw materials, you can also choose to use steamed bread pieces, rice grains, corn kernels, peanuts, melon seeds, soaked green beans, vegetable leaves, tender grass and other foods for direct feeding.

4. After the crickets are just caught from the wild, they should be fed with pureed raw edamame or cooked mung beans, and wait until the pure feces discharged by the crickets change from mud and water to pure food feces, and then transfer to normal feeding.

5. In the later stage, you can feed meat appropriately, such as cooked shrimp meat or bread worms.

Summary. In addition to digesting food, the belly of a cricket is used to make sounds to attract the opposite sex, and to produce vibrations to transmit information.

In addition to digesting food, the belly of a cricket is used to make sounds to attract the opposite sex, and to produce vibrations to transmit information.

Can you elaborate on that a little bit more?

The belly of a cricket has many uses. First of all, it is the digestive system of crickets, which helps digest food, provide energy, and maintain the life activities of crickets. Secondly, the belly of crickets also contains many neurons and chylous ducts, which can help crickets sense the absence of external ring nuclei and make judgments and decisions.

In addition, the belly of the cricket is also a sound resonance, which produces sound through the tremor of the belly, so as to transmit information and communicate, and it is also one of the most basic ways for crickets to chirp. Overall, the belly of a cricket is a very important organ that is closely related to its survival and life.

Drinking and not drinking, that is, without water, it cannot live. As long as the cricket jar is kept moist, there is no need to deliberately feed water, it can draw water from the food.

Drinking water, it survives in the grass by the river or in the crevices of damp stones.

There is water on the leaves, so you don't need to deliberately feed it.

There is rain and dew on the leaves, so you don't have to feed yourself.

【Alias】Crickets, nocturnal insects, general insects, autumn insects, cockfighting 【Introduction】Cricket family insect Cricket gryllulus chinensis weber, to dry the whole into medicine. Caught in summer and autumn, scalded to death with boiling water, and dried. 【Sexual taste and meridians】Pungent, salty, warm.

Poisonous. 【Function and Indications】Diuretic, blood breaking, pharyngeal. It is used for edema, inability to urinate, urinary tract stones, cirrhosis of the liver, ascites, sore throat.

Usage and dosage] 2 6 pieces, decoction or roasting and grinding. 【Note】Weak and pregnant women should not take it. 【Remarks】(1) A kind of cricket produced in Northeast China is Seapsipedu Aspersus Walker, and other coffin-headed crickets such as Loxoblemmus Doenitzi Stein are also used for medicinal purposes in different regions.