silkworm chrysalis

Introduction

Silkworm pupae, also called small bees, are high-protein nutritional products. Silkworm sand (silkworm excrement), silkworm molts, silk cocoons, white silkworms (silkworms infected with Beauveria bassiana) and so on are all used as medicine.

After the silkworm spins silk and makes a cocoon, it will turn into a pupa about 4 days later. The body shape of the silkworm pupa is like a spindle, with three body sections: head, thorax and abdomen. The head is very small, with compound eyes and antennae; the thorax has thoracic legs and wings; the bulging abdomen has 9 body segments. The color is brown. Professional workers can distinguish the sex of the silkworm pupa from the lines and brown dots on the abdomen. When the silkworm just pupates, the body color is light yellow, and the pupa body is tender and soft. Gradually, it will turn into yellow, yellow-brown or brown, and the pupa skin will also harden. After about 12 to 15 days, when the pupa body begins to soften again, the pupa skin is a little wrinkled and turns into a brownish earthy cocoon color, it will turn into a moth. Silkworm pupae can be eaten to supplement nutrition.

Nutritional value of silkworm pupae

Silkworm pupae are also known as late silkworm sand, silkworm exuvia, silkworm cocoon, and white silkworm. The nutritional value of silkworm pupae is that they are rich in protein and various amino acids. The ways to cook silkworm pupae include fried silkworm pupae chicken, dry-fried silkworm pupae, boiled silkworm pupae in salt water, five-spice silkworm pupae, stir-fried silkworm pupae, silkworm pupae egg pancakes, stewed silkworm pupae with red dates, clear brine silkworm pupae, walnut silkworm pupae powder, stewed silkworm pupae with walnuts, fried silkworm pupae with leeks, and fried silkworm pupae with garlic moss.

The efficacy and function of silkworm pupae

Silkworm pupae are rich in protein and multiple amino acids. There is a saying that seven silkworm pupae equal one egg. Silkworm pupae are high-grade nutritional supplements for the weak, sick, elderly and women after childbirth. Silkworm pupae can regulate the body's sugar and fat metabolism. Silkworm pupa oil can well lower blood lipids and cholesterol, and has a significant effect on the auxiliary treatment of hypercholesterolemia and the improvement of liver function. Silkworm pupae can produce products with pharmacological activity. This active product can effectively increase the level of white blood cells in the human body, thereby improving the body's immune function and effectively delaying the aging process of human body functions. Silkworm pupae fried food can treat fatigue and thinness and malnutrition in children. Silkworm pupa oil has a certain effect on hypertension, fatty liver, hyperlipidemia, etc. White silkworm can treat children's epilepsy and night crying, spasm and pursing mouth; soaking silkworm sand in wine can relieve various winds and remove stubborn arthritis; silkworm cocoons can treat thirst, stop bleeding and treat bleeding from teeth.
Silkworm pupae have extremely high nutritional value and are rich in protein, fatty acids, and vitamins, including vitamin A, vitamin B2, vitamin D and ergosterol. The protein content of silkworm pupae is more than 50%, and the protein contains a full range of essential amino acids. Silkworm pupae protein is composed of 18 kinds of amino acids, among which the content of 8 essential amino acids for the human body is very high; silkworm pupae also contain trace elements such as potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, zinc, phosphorus, selenium, vitamins A, E, B1, B2, carotene, etc., which are also indispensable to the human body. The content of unsaturated fatty acids in silkworm pupae is very rich.

Side effects and contraindications of silkworm pupae

Silkworm pupae can replenish the body, but people with athlete's foot should avoid eating them.
"Sui Xi Ju Diet" says: "People suffering from beriberi should avoid eating this. People who are bitten by otter dogs should avoid eating this for the rest of their lives, as it is inevitable that they will eat it by mistake.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that silkworm pupae are mild in nature and sweet in taste, and have the effects of dispelling wind, strengthening the spleen, stopping thirst, calming the nerves, and benefiting essence and yang. "Prescriptions for Emergencies" says that it "benefits essence and qi, strengthens male yang, and treats spermatorrhea." "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Drink it as a powder, treat infantile malnutrition, grow muscles, reduce fever, and remove roundworms; drink it with decoction to stop thirst." Pharmacological studies have shown that silkworm pupae can play a certain role in regulating the body's sugar and fat metabolism. White silkworm pupa oil has the effect of lowering blood lipids; pills made from silkworm pupa oil are used to treat hypercholesterolemia, and have significant effects on lowering cholesterol and improving liver function. Eating silkworm pupae in moderation has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, chronic hepatitis and malnutrition. In addition, silkworm pupae contain a broad-spectrum immune substance that has a special effect on cancer. It is reported that Japan and other countries have produced α-interferon from silkworm pupae for clinical anti-cancer treatment.

How to make silkworm pupae delicious

How to make silkworm pupae:
A mouthful of fragrant silkworm pupae Ingredients: 500g silkworm pupae, 15g cooked cashews, 10g coriander, 5g radish flowers, 30g lettuce leaves, 10g each of green pepper shreds, red pepper shreds, onion slices, and scallion shreds.
Seasoning: 25 grams of salt, 10 grams of MSG and white sugar, 5 grams each of pepper and star anise, 6 grams each of Sichuan pepper and cumin, 10 grams of white sesame seeds, 5 grams of chili powder, 8 grams each of scallion segments, ginger slices, chopped scallions, ginger slices, and chopped garlic, 15 grams of crispy frying powder, 10 grams of custard powder, 15 grams of dry starch, 2000 grams of salad oil, and 5 grams of chicken powder.
practice:
1. Put 1000 grams of water into the pot, add silkworm pupae, 20 grams of salt, 5 grams of MSG, pepper, star anise, sugar, scallion, ginger, and Sichuan pepper and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove the silkworm pupae and rinse with cold water for later use.
2. Cut the silkworm pupae in half, drain the water, add 2 grams of salt, 3 grams of MSG, fried flour, dry starch and custard powder and mix well.
3. Pour salad oil into the pot, heat it to 60% hot, add the silkworm pupae and fry them on low heat for 1 minute, remove and drain the oil; when the oil temperature rises to 80% hot, add the silkworm pupae and fry them on low heat for 0.5 minutes, remove and set aside; when the oil temperature cools to 50% hot, add the green pepper shreds, red pepper shreds and onion slices and fry them on low heat for 5 seconds, remove from the pot and set aside.
4. Leave 30 grams of oil in the pot, heat it to 70% hot, add chopped scallion and ginger, stir-fry on low heat until fragrant, add cumin, chili powder, and minced garlic and stir well, then add silkworm pupae, cashews, 3 grams of salt, 2 grams of MSG, and chicken powder and stir-fry on low heat for 1 minute, add white sesame seeds and remove from the pot. Put it on a plate lined with lettuce leaves, sprinkle with processed green pepper shreds, red pepper shreds, onion slices, scallion shreds, coriander, and garnish with radish flowers.
Fried Silkworm Pupa Chicken Ingredients: 1000g chicken, 25g egg white, 25g spinach.
Seasoning: 30 grams of Shaoxing wine, 3 grams of fine salt, 10 grams of green onion and pepper, 25 grams of starch (corn), and 1500 grams of peanut oil.
practice:
1. Remove the fascia from the chicken tenderloin, smash it and chop it into fine pieces, add Shaoxing wine, refined salt, scallion and pepper paste, starch and mix well, then add egg white and stir well to make chicken stock. Wash the spinach and cut it into 5 cm long thin strips.
2. Cut the lard into 6 cm long and 2 cm wide slices, put the chicken stuffing on it and roll it into a roll with a diameter of 0.5 cm. Insert a bamboo stick about 3 cm from one end, leaving a 1.5 cm handle outside, put it into the egg foam paste and coat it fully. Then put it into a 30% hot oil pan, stir it with chopsticks, pick it up after it stands up, pull out the bamboo stick to make "silkworm pupa chicken", fry the spinach slightly, pick it up and spread it on a flat plate.
3. Put the silkworm pupa chicken into 70% hot oil and fry until it turns apricot yellow, then remove and place on the shredded spinach.
Stir-fried silkworm pupae Ingredients: fresh silkworm pupae, dried red pepper, Sichuan pepper, onion, ginger, garlic, starch.
Seasoning: vegetable oil, salt, cooking wine, chicken essence.
practice:
1. Cut the dried red pepper into sections, chop the green onion, ginger and garlic and set aside;
2. Wash the silkworm pupae and cook them in water;
3. After the silkworms have cooled completely, use scissors to cut the silkworm pupae into two halves and remove the hard core in the middle;
4. Mix the silkworm pupae with a small amount of salt, cooking wine and starch;
5. Heat the oil in a pan, add the silkworm pupae and fry slowly over low heat;
6. Fry the silkworm pupae until they turn slightly yellow, then remove and drain the oil;
7. Leave a small amount of oil in the pan and stir-fry the peppercorns over low heat until fragrant;
8. Push the peppercorns aside and continue to stir-fry the chopped green onion, ginger and garlic over low heat;
9. When the water of chopped green onion and ginger is removed, push them to one side, add red pepper and stir-fry until the aroma comes out;
10. Add the fried silkworm pupae and stir-fry over medium heat for about 2 minutes until the oil in the pan is dry;
11. Add appropriate amount of salt and chicken essence, stir-fry for a few times and serve.
Boil silkworm pupae in salt water Ingredients: 500g silkworm pupae, appropriate amount of salt, 2 scallions, 4 slices of ginger, 1 star anise.
practice:
1. Rinse the silkworm pupae and put them into the pot;
2. Add enough water to cover, add onion, ginger and star anise, and bring to a boil over high heat;
3. Add salt and cooking wine, continue cooking for 5 minutes, and turn off the heat;
4. Soak the cooked pupae in brine and take them out as you like;
Five-spice silkworm pupae Ingredients: 500g silkworm pupae, some chopped green onions, some shredded ginger. Accessories: some five-spice powder, some cumin, some sesame, some cooking wine, some seafood soy sauce. Instructions:
1. Prepare all kinds of materials, wash the silkworm pupae and steam them in a steamer for 6 minutes;
2. Add oil to the wok, and when the oil is boiling, add chopped green onion and shredded ginger and stir-fry until fragrant;
3. Heat the oil in a wok, pour in the steamed silkworm pupae, stir-fry over high heat, and add various seasonings during the process;
4. Stir-fry over high heat until the silkworm pupae are dry and tasty;
Fried silkworm pupae Ingredients: 300g silkworm pupae, 8g chopped green onion, 8g ginger slices, 8g garlic, 5g salt, 2g MSG, 2 star anises. Method:
1. Soak silkworm pupae in warm salt water for 10 minutes;
2. While the silkworm pupae are soaking, prepare scallion segments, ginger slices, minced garlic, and star anise and set aside;
3. After 10 minutes, clean the silkworm pupae and set aside;
4. Pour appropriate amount of water into the pot, add salt and star anise, bring to a boil, add silkworm pupae and cook;
5. Take out the cooked silkworm pupae, drain the water and set aside;
6. Heat the pan with oil, add scallion, ginger and minced garlic when the oil is 50% hot, and fry until fragrant;
7. Add silkworm pupae and stir-fry briefly;
8. Add salt, turn off the heat, add MSG and mix well;
9. Serve on a plate.
Silkworm Pupa Egg Pancake Ingredients: 6 liang silkworm pupae, 2 eggs, some vegetable oil, some salt. Instructions:
1. Pick up the silkworm pupae, wash them clean, drain the water and fry them in oil.
2. Add appropriate amount of salt and beat in eggs and mix well.
3. Heat the oil in the pot until it is 50% hot, then pour in the silkworm pupae and egg liquid.
4. Flatten and fry over low heat until the bottom turns yellow.
5. Put the plate on the plate, turn it over and fry the other side.
6. Fry the other side until golden brown and place on a plate.
Red dates stewed with silkworm pupae Ingredients: 20 red dates, 100 grams of silkworm pupae. Method: Wash the red dates (pitted) and silkworm pupae, put them into a stew pot, add an appropriate amount of boiling water, cover the stew pot, simmer over low heat for 1-2 hours, season and serve. If you add rock sugar, it can be made into a sweet soup.
Efficacy: Red dates stewed with silkworm pupae can strengthen the spleen and replenish deficiency, clear away deficiency heat. Spleen deficiency and weak qi or malnutrition, symptoms include weight loss, fatigue, thirst, dry mouth, and fever. It can also be used for children with malnutrition, weight loss and fever caused by tuberculosis, or restlessness and insomnia caused by heat in the heart meridian.
Contraindications: This soup should not be used by people with cold and fever.
Spicy fried silkworm pupae Ingredients: 500g fresh silkworm pupae, 200g Hangzhou pepper, some oil, some salt, some green onions, some garlic, some ginger, some star anise. Instructions:
1. Wash the silkworm pupae, boil them in light salt water over high heat, continue to boil for 5 minutes, remove and drain;
2. Heat oil in a pan and sauté onion, ginger, garlic and star anise;
3. Add the cooked silkworm pupae and stir-fry over high heat;
4. Add cooking wine and a small amount of salt, and continue to stir-fry until the water is dry;
5. Add the chili peppers and continue to stir-fry until soft;
6. Add a little bit of MSG for seasoning, stir-fry evenly and serve.
Marinated silkworm pupae Ingredients: 25g each of salt and MSG, 100g of onion and ginger, 10g of tangerine peel, 10g of star anise, 5g of bay leaves, 15g of angelica, 15g of cardamom, 15g of rice wine, 0.5g of vinegar essence.
practice:
1. Wash the silkworm pupae and blanch them in boiling water for 5 minutes until cooked. Put them into the prepared marinade and bring to a boil over high heat. Simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. Soak for 4 hours and put them in the refrigerator to cool.
2. Peel the yam and cut it into 2 cm strips. Soak it in white water and vinegar for 2 minutes, take it out, rinse it, and soak it in the chilled silkworm pupae for 10 minutes. Serve it on a plate with the juice.
Walnut silkworm pupa powder Ingredients: 200g walnut kernels, 80g silkworm pupae.
Method: Clean the walnut kernels and silkworm pupae, dry them in the sun or in the oven, grind them into coarse powder, and bottle them for use. Take 15 grams twice a day with warm water, and add appropriate amount of sugar for flavoring.
Efficacy: Suitable for spermatorrhea due to kidney deficiency.
Walnuts stewed with silkworm pupae Ingredients: 100-150g walnut meat, 50g silkworm pupae (slightly fried) Method: Put the walnut meat and silkworm pupae in a pot and stew them in water.
Usage: Once every other day.
Efficacy: nourishes the spleen and kidneys. Suitable for impotence, spermatorrhea, infantile malnutrition, gastroptosis, etc.
Source: Diet Therapy
Stir-fried silkworm pupae with chives Ingredients: canned silkworm pupae, red and yellow bell peppers, chives, onions, ginger, garlic, dried chilies. Instructions:
1. Wash the silkworm pupae and cut other ingredients into sections, dices and mince;
2. Heat the pan and oil, sauté the onion, ginger, garlic and dried chili peppers, add the silkworm pupae and stir-fry for 3-4 minutes;
3. Add a spoonful of cooking wine, a little salt, soy sauce, oyster sauce and sugar to taste;
4. Add red and yellow bell pepper and stir well;
5. Pour in the leek segments and stir-fry for 1-half minute.
Stir-fried silkworm pupae with garlic sprouts Ingredients: 400g silkworm pupae, 250g garlic sprouts, some oil, some salt, some green onions, some ginger, some delicious soy sauce. Instructions:
1. Boil the silkworm pupae in water first;
2. Wash and cut garlic sprouts into sections;
3. Take out the silkworm pupae and drain the water;
4. When the oil in the pan is hot, add a dried chili and stir-fry until fragrant;
5. Add onion and ginger and stir-fry;
6. Add silkworm pupae and stir-fry, add a small amount of extremely delicious soy sauce;
7. Add appropriate amount of salt and stir-fry for a while longer, otherwise there will be too much water in the silkworm pupae;
8. When the silkworm pupae are fried relatively dry, add the garlic shoots. After removing the spicy taste of the garlic shoots, it is done.

Medicinal value of silkworm pupae

It can promote the production of body fluids and quench thirst, help digestion and regulate qi. It is used for thirst, emaciation and infantile malnutrition.
Silkworm pupae are a high-end nutritional supplement for the weak, sick, elderly and postpartum women. Silkworm pupae can produce pharmacologically active substances that can effectively increase the level of white blood cells in the human body, thereby improving immunity and delaying aging. Silkworm pupa oil can lower blood lipids and cholesterol, and has a significant effect on treating hypercholesterolemia and improving liver function.
Fried silkworm pupae can cure fatigue and infantile malnutrition. Silkworm pupa oil has certain effects on hypertension, fatty liver, hyperlipidemia, etc. White silkworm can cure children's epilepsy, night crying, spasm and mouth pursing. Soaking silkworm sand in wine can relieve wind and remove stubborn numbness. Silkworm cocoons can cure thirst, stop bleeding and treat bleeding from the teeth.
Selected prescriptions①Treat infantile malnutrition: fry silkworm pupae, mix with honey and eat. (Quanzhou Materia Medica)②Treat fatigue and tuberculosis: fry silkworm pupae of any amount and eat. (Quanzhou Materia Medica)③Treat thirst, fever, or mental disturbance: 1 liang of silkworm pupae. Use 1 medium cup of ash-free wine and 1 large cup of water, boil together until 1 medium cup is left, clarify, remove the silkworm pupae and drink. (Shenghui Fang)④Treat roundworms: 2 he of silkworm pupae. Grind until rotten, squeeze with raw cloth to extract juice, drink it all at once on an empty stomach. Or dry the silkworm pupae, grind them into powder, mix with porridge and drink it. (Shengji Zonglu Silkworm Pupa Juice Recipe)
[Pulmonary tuberculosis, emaciation, chronic gastritis, gastroptosis]
Roast and grind silkworm pupae into powder, take 1.5-3 grams twice a day (this powder must be stored dry, it is best to put it into capsules).
[Rheumatic pain, neuralgia, numbness of limbs]
Fry and dry 90 grams of late silkworm sand, put it into a cloth bag, and soak it in 500 grams of rice wine. After 7 to 10 days, drink the wine in moderation, twice a day.
[Thirst and frequent urination, diabetes]
Take 10 silkworm cocoons with pupae and decoct them in water (the famous Qing Dynasty doctor Wang Mengying often used Luosi Decoction to treat diabetes, the same principle applies).
[Hemophilia, dental caries bleeding, purpura, epistaxis]
Burn the silkworm cocoons to preserve their properties, grind them into powder, take 3 grams each time, twice a day. This product can also be used as a hemostatic agent for traumatic bleeding.
[Urticaria, pruritus]
Take 6 grams of Bombyx Batryticatus, 6 grams of Schizonepeta Spike and 3 grams of Cicada Shell, decocted in water and taken orally.
[Wheals]
Grind up silkworm pupa, cicada shell, rhubarb and turmeric into powder in equal parts, take 6 grams each time, and wash it down with yellow wine mixed with honey (a proven recipe from Yang Lishan in the Qing Dynasty, named "Shengsheng Powder").
[Children's convulsions, tetanus spasms]
Take equal parts of silkworm pupa, scorpion, clam, cicada shell and Arisaema consanguineum, grind them into fine powder, and take it with sugar soup. Take 1.5 to 3 grams each time, 2 to 3 times a day.
[Stroke]
Take 3 grams each of white silkworm, safflower, schizonepeta spicate and palm leaves, decocted in water and taken orally.
[epilepsy]
9 grams each of white silkworm pupa, perilla seed, and cornus officinalis, 3 fen of cinnabar, and 2 slices of ginger, decocted in water and taken orally.
[Rheumatic low back pain]
30 grams of late silkworm feces (wrapped in cloth), 30 grams of fresh pine needles, cut into small pieces, add one bowl of rice wine and one bowl of water, boil until reduced by half, remove the residue, and take warm twice a day.