Identification method of traditional Chinese medicine pangolin

Pangolin is one of the precious Chinese herbal medicines. With blood circulation, swelling and pus, under the effect of milk.

The source is the scale armor of the family Pangolin. Amphibian mammals. The body is long and narrow, and the entire body is scaled. The limbs are thick, short, flat and long with the back slightly raised. 50 to 100 cm in length and 10 to 30 cm in tail length. Weight 1.5 ~ 3kg. Different individuals have great differences in body weight and length. The head is conical, with small eyes, a pointed tip, long tongue, and no teeth. Ears are underdeveloped. The foot has 5 toes and has strong claws. The front paws are long, especially the middle third paw, and the hind paws are shorter. The entire scale is imbricate.

The main origin and distribution of production in Guangxi, Guangdong, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan, Fujian and other provinces. Foreign production in Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia and other places.

Identify the main points of identification to grasp three points: First, the authenticity of a piece of fan, triangle, diamond or shield, natural growth, quality heavier, tough and difficult to break; Second, the fire has a specific odor, embers edge white; third is boiled 5 Minutes of deformation.

The classic code of identification 1 Liang Hong Tao Jing: "The shape is similar to the sound and short, but it is like a cricket and four feet, black, can land water. In the middle of the day, open scales such as dead, attracting ants into a, In other words, when the animal enters the water, all the open ants emerge and eat it.” 2 Su Song Song Song: “I am now a pangolin. Also, Idaho, Lingnan, and Kim, Shang, and Zhuzhou are all deep in the valley. There are." 3 Ming "Materia Medica Meng Xi" contains: "Lang Jia, Shenshan Dagu have both, body short tail as large as. From the mausoleum for burrowing in the mausoleum, plus pipa due to humiliation." In fact, it is known as pangolins. Water and land can be combined, and ants have the law: on the shore, if scales do not move, such as death, enter from the ant, fully close, cast water and open again, the ants will emerge from the ants, and then eat it.” 4 Li Shizhen said: "The cocoon is like a cockroach and it is small, and its back is as wide and wide as the first rat and the toothless, the abdomen without scales and hairy, the long tongue tipped, the tail and the body, etc. The tail scales are thick and triangular, and the abdomen Dirty and full, and stomach alone, taste and tongue to attract ants to eat it. Has cut its stomach, about ants rise Xu also." 5 Lee's sly: "Pangolin, ancient fresh use, the recent wind malaria, sores, pass through Under the breast, to use as a drug. "

Rapid identification of a fan-shaped fan-shaped, triangular, diamond-shaped or shield-shaped, central thick, thin edge, the back of the vertical growth line pattern, ventral bottom edge or a few horizontal wrinkles. The surface is dark brown or gray-brown, and its belly is light and smooth. Horny, translucent. Quality tough and flexible, difficult to break. Smells slightly, tastes salty.