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Alternate English names: Asiatic cockroach blackbeetle

Kingdom: Animal

Origin in unofficial sources: Blatta orientalis L.; Periplaneta americana (L.); Periplaneta australasiae (Fabricius)

Use: Medicinal

Properties: Salty; cold; toxic.^✽

Actions and indications: Breaks stasis, transforms accumulation, disperses swelling, and resolves toxin. Treats concretions, conglomerations, accumulations, and gatherings; child gān accumulation; clove sores (dīng); throat moth; swollen welling-abscesses (yōng zhǒng); snake and insect bites.

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