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Latin pharmacognostic name: Armadillidium

Alternate Chinese names: 地虱 dì shī

Kingdom: Animal

Origin (other sources): Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille); Porcellio scaber Latreille

Use: Medicinal

Category:

Properties: Sour; cool; nontoxic*.

Indications:

Breaks the blood, disinhibits water, resolves toxin, and relieves pain.

enduring mother-of-malaria (glomus lump in malarial disease); concretions and conglomerations in women; urinary stoppage; fright wind with pursed mouth; toothache; goose-mouth sores.

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