Progress in medicine and earthworm.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 13 Progress in medicine and earthworm On: Sun Xiuying, Wang Fuzhen, Wang Fuxing [Keywords:] to Long, review Long used as medicine to have a long history in China. In recent years, pharmacological research and clinical application of more extensive, and have achieved encouraging results and progress. 1 Source Earthworm (also known as worms) to participate in huge earthworm species have Pheretima Pheretima aspergilium (E. Perrier), Pheretima popular Pheretima vulgaris Chen, William Pheretima Pheretima guillelmi (Michaelsen), or blind comb Pheretima Pheretima pectinifera Michalsen dry body. The former are called “Dragon of Canton,” after the three Xi said, “Shanghai to Long.” pheretima caught from spring to autumn, Shanghai Dragon of the summer capture, timely cut open the abdomen, remove the internal organs and sediment washing net, dried or low temperature in dry place. 2 character identification Pheretima: elongated article sheets, bent, edge a little volume, length 15 ~ 20 cm, width of 1 ~ 2 cm, all with links back to the purple gray brown, abdomen pale yellow brown, in addition to front and rear ends, the abdomen is cut open, internal organs have been removed or occasionally residual. mouth and anus is visible. germ band was known as “white neck”, the male gonopore is also visible, often ranging from broken for the length of the segment. quality of hard and brittle, gas fishy, taste salty to be big, fat-like, not broken, no soil is preferred. Shanghai to Long: was bent cylindrical, 8 ~ 15 cm, width of 0.5 ~ 1.5 cm, all with links back to the brown brown, abdomen pale yellow brown, Pheretima popular male mating cavity can all be dug out, showed a cauliflower-like shape, or penis, William Pheretima oral cavity of male mating longitudinal cracks was like, comb Pheretima blind inside the male gonopore and 1 or more small papillae. to be big, not broken by better . 3 physical and chemical identification 3.1 Paper