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The scientific name is Cipangopaludina chinensis Gray, commonly known as snail, field snail, field snail, fragrant snail. It belongs to the phylum Mollusca, class Gastropoda, order Ctenobranchiata, family Cipangodae, genus Cipangodae, and is distributed in all freshwater areas in China. It is also distributed in North Korea, North America, etc.

【Morphological characteristics】 Medium-sized individuals, shell height of about 44.4 mm, width of 27.5 mm. Shell nearly broad conical, with 6-7 whorls, each of which expands outward. The height of the spiral part is greater than the height of the shell mouth, and the body whorl is obviously expanded. The shell is pointed. The suture line is deep. The shell surface is smooth and ribless, and is yellow-brown. The shell mouth is nearly oval, with complete, thin edges and a black frame. The husk is a thin keratinous sheet, smaller than the shell mouth, with concentric growth lines, and the operculum is located in the center of the inner lip.

[Biological characteristics] It lives in lakes, reservoirs, ditches, rice fields, and ponds with lush freshwater plants. It crawls with its wide ventral feet. It has great adaptability to dryness, cold, and heat. When encountering a dry environment, it retracts its soft body into its shell and seals the shell opening with its operculum or burrows into the mud. It hibernates in the mud in winter and emerges from the ground when the spring is warm. It feeds on leaves of aquatic plants and lower algae. It is ovoviviparous, fertilized and developed in vivo. The number of eggs carried by female snails varies from 10 to 100. After developing into young snails, they are gradually expelled from the body. The young snails live freely in the water. The young snails reach sexual maturity after about one year of growth.

【Economic Value】The meat is edible, delicious and of high nutritional value. Frozen snail meat is also exported and can be used as feed for livestock. It is also a natural bait for black carp and carp. The shell and meat can be used for medicinal purposes.

[Nature and flavor] Sweet, salty, cold in nature. Same as Chinese round field snails, etc.

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat, promotes diuresis, removes dampness and detoxifies. Used for heat-stagnation and urinary obstruction, jaundice, beriberi, edema, thirst, hemorrhoids, blood in the stool, red and swollen eyes, and carbuncle.

【Clinical Application】

1. Treatment of infectious icteric hepatitis, chronic hepatitis, and early liver cirrhosis: 500 grams of snails are placed in water for 2-3 days to allow them to excrete all the sludge and waste. Then, a small amount of the snail tail is knocked off and boiled with 50-100 grams of chicken bone grass to make soup. Take once a day.

2. Treat urinary problems and turbid urine: Wash 250g of snails, remove the tails, put into a hot oil pan, stir-fry for a while, add a little garlic, season with salt, add water and cook, pick out the snail meat with a needle and eat.

3. Treatment of jaundice: 100g of snail meat, 12g of Artemisia capillaris, 30g of Rhizoma Cyperi, 30g of Radix Codonopsis pilosulae, decocted in water, 1-2 doses per day.

4. Treatment of bacillary dysentery: 500g of field snails, pick out the snail meat, dry it in the sun, fry it until it is charred, decoct it in water and take it, 10g each time, 3 times a day.

5. Treat damp-heat jaundice, dysuria, and diabetes: Soak 15 large field snails in clean water to remove the mud, take out the snail meat, add half a cup of rice wine, mix, then put it into clean water to stew and drink the soup, once a day.

6. Treat urinary tract infection, prostatitis, urinary tract stones: 30 grams of psyllium seeds, 10 red dates, 1000 grams of snails (with shells). First, use clean water to keep the snails for 1-2 days, change the water frequently to remove the mud, chop off the snails; wash the red dates (pitted). Wrap the psyllium seeds with gauze, put them into the pot together with the red dates and snails, add an appropriate amount of clean water, boil over high heat, then simmer for 2 hours, drink the soup and eat the snail meat.

[Usage and Dosage] Stew in soup and take in appropriate amount according to the condition.

[Dos and Don’ts] People with weak spleen and stomach should avoid eating it.

[Ingredients and medicinal uses] This product contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and vitamin A. It has diuretic and detumescent effects. ..

Not a pest~ Can be eaten~ Stir-fried snails~ Stewed snails with pork ribs, and roasted snails with chicken are all super delicious~

It's not harmful, but it contains harmful organisms