Where does the tokay gecko of the order Squamata live? A detailed look at its food and its effects and benefits

The tokay gecko, generally refers to the tokay gecko (Gekko gecko), also known as the immortal toad, and called the great gecko in Taiwan, China. It is mostly oviparous, laying 2 eggs each time. So, where does the tokay gecko of the order Squamata generally live? What food does it eat? What effects and benefits does it have?

1. Where does the tokay gecko of the order Squamata generally live?

The tokay gecko lives in rock crevices, stone caves or tree holes on mountain rocks or in the wilderness, and sometimes also moves around near the eaves and walls of people's homes. In Guangxi, China, it mainly lives in stone mountains formed of subtropical limestone, where the mountains have low trees and a water source for it to drink, with an annual average temperature above 20°C. In Yunnan, there are 3 types of habitat: first, in tree holes; second, in house environments; third, in fissures of karst limestone mountains (Hekou). The common feature of the three environments is that farmland surrounds them.

2. What food does it eat?

The food of the tokay gecko consists mainly of various moving insects, including mole crickets, grasshoppers, moths, cicada cockroaches, yellow mealworms and silkworm moths. The tokay gecko does not eat dead insects or food, but after artificial domestication, it can also be released for rearing. During the process of artificially raising tokay geckos, the principle should be animal-based insects as the main food and plant-based insects as a supplement, otherwise it easily leads to malnutrition in tokay geckos and the occurrence of disease.

3. What effects and benefits does the tokay gecko have?

[Nature and flavor] Salty in flavor, neutral in nature.

[Meridian entry] Lung and kidney meridians.

[Effects] Tonifies the lungs and benefits the kidneys, grasps qi and calms wheezing, assists yang and benefits essence. It mainly treats insufficiency of the lungs and kidneys, asthmatic shortness of breath due to deficiency, chronic cough with blood-streaked sputum, impotence and seminal emission.

1. To treat consumptive cough and lung congestion with upward qi: one pair of tokay geckos (with head and tail intact, coated with butter and roasted until yellow), one liang of fritillary bulb (roasted until slightly yellow), one liang of aster (remove seedlings and soil), one liang of apricot kernels (soaked in hot water, remove skin, tips and twin kernels, stir-fried with bran until slightly yellow), two liang of turtle shell (coated with vinegar and roasted until yellow, remove the skirt-like margin), one liang of gleditsia seed kernels (stir-fried until scorched yellow), and one liang of mulberry root bark (chopped). Grind the above medicines and sift into powder, mix with refined honey and pound three to two hundred times, and make pills the size of firmiana seeds. Take twenty pills each time with jujube decoction, three to four times a day. Avoid amaranth.

2. To treat consumptive cough: one pair of tokay geckos (coated with a little vinegar and roasted until colored), one liang of white sheep lung (divided into three portions), half a liang of ophiopogon root (remove the core, roast), one fen of coltsfoot flower, and one fen of picrorhiza. Except for the sheep lung, grind the above medicines finely and sift into powder. First take one portion of sheep lung, grind it finely in a sand basin into a paste, use one medium cup of ash-free wine, warm it until it bubbles like fish eyes, add the sheep lung, then add three qian of the medicine powder, stir until uniform, have the patient lie down, remove the pillow, support the waist with clothing or a mat, and swallow slowly face upward, not too quickly.

3. To treat lung cough, facial puffiness and swelling of the four limbs: one pair of tokay geckos (male and female with head and tail intact, washed clean, coated with medicinal wine and honey and roasted until done), and one plant of ginseng (Zituan ginseng). Grind the above two ingredients and sift into powder, melt four liang of wax, filter off the residue, mix with the medicine powder, and make six cakes. For each dose, on an empty stomach, use one cup of thin glutinous rice congee, put in one medicine cake, and while hot, sip it slowly.