Traditional Chinese Medicine
In Traditional Chinese medicine, silkworm is the source of the "stiff silkworm", which is made from dried 4th or 5th instar larvae which have died of white muscardine disease (a lethal fungal infection). Its uses are to dispel flatulence, dissolve phlegm and relieve spasms.
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