Wingless Cockroach

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Breaks blood stasis and dissipates long-standing masses - Zhe Chong is the classical name most closely associated with severe, chronic, and fixed stasis disorders in the old formula literature.
• Relieves pain from congealed blood obstruction - this includes menstrual pain, postpartum lower-abdominal pain, and chronic fullness or hardness from old stasis.
• Supports recovery after trauma and fracture - like Tu Bie Chong, the classical Zhe Chong lineage is also valued for helping restore continuity after injury.

Secondary Actions

• This file preserves the older formula-language identity of Zhe Chong rather than inventing a separate species-level medicinal from Tu Bie Chong.
• In practical modern use, Zhe Chong and Tu Bie Chong usually refer to the same medicinal insect family, but the classical name appears prominently in major canonical formulas.

Classic Formulas

• Da Huang Zhe Chong Wan - the signature classical formula carrying the Zhe Chong name and one of the strongest examples of stasis-breaking formula design.
• Bie Jia Jian Wan - chronic accumulation and mass-dispersing formula logic in which deep stasis and hardness are central concerns.
• Trauma formulas containing Zhe Chong with blood-moving and bone-repair herbs - later practical extensions of the same stasis-breaking identity.

Classical References

• TCM Wiki specifically frames Zhe Chong through chronic consumptive disease with blood stasis, amenorrhea, abdominal fullness, and Da Huang Zhe Chong Wan from the Jin Kui Yao Lue.
• The classical formula tradition therefore gives Zhe Chong a slightly more canonical, text-anchored feel than the more colloquial Tu Bie Chong name, even though they are not meaningfully separate medicinals here.
• This record should be read as a classical-name variant within the same medicinal lineage, not as a second unrelated 'cockroach' herb.