This prescription for reducing fever is actually very simple, with only three ingredients in total: silkworm excrement, bamboo fungus, and tangerine peel.
Although silkworm excrement is a traditional Chinese medicine, it is also commonly used in daily life. It can be made into silk sand pillows, which are sold in many department stores. Sleeping with this pillow can clear the liver and brighten the eyes. The black sand like particles inside the silkworm sand pillow are silkworm sand.
Silkworm sand, also known as silkworm arrow, is the feces of silkworms. It sounds a bit unclean, but those who have raised silkworms know that silkworms are very clean animals. It spends its entire life in the bamboo plaque where silkworms are raised, eating only fresh mulberry leaves and completely free from human dust. So silkworm excrement is actually the residue of mulberry leaves, without any peculiar smell.
Silkworm sand entering the liver meridian can dispel wind and promote blood circulation; Entering the spleen meridian can dry dampness and stop diarrhea; Entering the stomach meridian can harmonize with the stomach and dissolve turbidity. These effects combined, in this prescription, can reduce fever, stop vomiting, and also relieve headaches and systemic pain caused by colds and fever.
Zhuru, which may sound unfamiliar to most people, is actually the middle layer of bamboo. Scrape off the outermost layer of green skin from the bamboo, exposing the bluish white part inside. Scrape it off one by one and let it air dry to make traditional Chinese medicine bamboo.
The function of Zhuru is to clear fire, and it is to clear the fire above. Bamboo Ru can clear the heart fire and cool the blood; It can clear lung fire and dissolve phlegm; It can clear liver fire and eliminate annoyance; It can clear stomach heat and stop vomiting. Used in this formula to enhance the effects of reducing fever and stopping vomiting.
As for dried tangerine peel, it can relieve external symptoms, warm the middle and dispel cold, which means it can not only dispel wind and cold, dissolve phlegm, stop cough, regulate upper respiratory tract infections, but also warm the stomach, stop vomiting, and relieve indigestion. Zhuru is cooler, paired with warm tangerine peel, it balances the cold and heat.
I wonder if you have noticed that these three medicines have one thing in common, which is that they can stop vomiting. In fact, they help the spleen and stomach recover their function through their different medicinal properties.
Mild cold with only upper respiratory symptoms, affecting the lungs. And at the level of fever, the disease has penetrated further into the stomach. When people have a fever, they generally have no appetite, feel uncomfortable in their stomach, and even feel nauseous and vomiting. So reducing fever is not the key, the key is to treat the spleen and stomach, drive away the pathogenic factors, and the fever will naturally subside.
Bamboo Ru, silkworm excrement, and dried tangerine peel are commonly used traditional Chinese medicines that can be purchased at any pharmacy. Dried tangerine peel can also be homemade. These three medicines are resistant to storage and can be stored for a long time without spoilage. After purchasing, keep it at home for long-term use. If you have a cold or fever, you don't need to go to the hospital. Just boil some medicine yourself.
The cooking method of silkworm sand, bamboo ru, and tangerine peel water is very convenient:
Use 10 grams each of bamboo, silkworm, and tangerine peel. Wash the dried tangerine peel, put it in a pot with silkworm roe and bamboo mushrooms, and cook with cold water. Boil the water for another three minutes and it will be ready.
Most people can reduce their fever by drinking it once. Severe cases can be consumed two to three times, and once the fever is completely reduced, there is no need to drink again.
The drugs in this prescription are all quite safe, and children and the elderly can use them with confidence.
Adults using this prescription is basically a one-time solution that works. For decades, we have used this prescription for many feverish people, with almost no more than three doses, which is better than taking antipyretic drugs and intravenous infusion, and there are no side effects of Western medicine. If the child is too young or has a high fever that does not subside, seek medical attention!