Cockroach Chinese Medicine Efficacy and Function

Cockroach has the functions of detoxifying and eliminating accumulation.

Cockroach has salty taste, cold nature, enters liver, spleen and kidney meridians, and has the functions of detoxifying, dispersing blood stasis and eliminating accumulation. It can be used clinically to treat diseases such as accumulation of abdominal mass, bite by insects and snakes, carbuncle and swelling poison, infantile malnutrition, throat paralysis and milk moth. Secondly, modern pharmacological research has found that cockroach may contain some substances that promote immune response, such as proteoglycans and polysaccharides, which can stimulate the activity of macrophages and improve their phagocytic rate and phagocytic index. Secondly, cockroaches may also contain some antibacterial peptides or other active ingredients, which can enhance the bactericidal ability of macrophages, thus increasing their phagocytic rate and phagocytic index.