What are the benefits and effects of toad slough? An analysis of its main medicinal value
Toad slough, also known as toad molt, is the keratinous skin membrane that the Chinese giant toad (Bufo gargarizans) naturally sheds periodically during its growth and development. Since its discovery, toad slough has been widely used as a medicine among the people in various places, and artificial collection has been achieved. It can treat liver cancer, sarcoma, lung cancer, ascites and many other difficult and complicated diseases. Clinically it is commonly given to patients together with malt, which has achieved the effect of inhibiting tumors. Let us take a look below at the benefits, effects and market price of toad slough!
The benefits and effects of toad slough
1. Inhibiting tumor cell growth: The active components of dried shed toad slough granules can penetrate into cancer cells, form covalent bonds with telomeres, destroy telomerase activity, and block the unlimited division of cancer cells until apoptosis, effectively inhibiting tumor cell growth.
2. Inducing tumor cell apoptosis: A large number of clinical experiments have confirmed that various active components of dried shed toad slough granules can induce cancer cell apoptosis through a variety of different pathways, inhibit the release of allergic reaction mediators, and thereby induce the differentiation and apoptosis of cancer cells.
3. Preventing the spread and metastasis of cancer cells: The polysaccharides of dried shed toad slough granules can strengthen normal cells against the erosion of pain-causing substances, thereby blocking the occurrence of non-specific reactions, causing cancer cells to undergo differentiated changes, and effectively preventing the spread and metastasis of cancer cells.
4. Enhancing efficacy and reducing toxicity in tumors: The benefits of toad slough: radiotherapy and chemotherapy are extremely harmful to the human body. Dried shed toad slough granules have relatively strong anti-tumor activity and can coordinate with tumors, reduce the harm of complications, and play a role in enhancing efficacy and reducing toxicity.
5. Effectively reducing tumor pain: Tumor pain seriously affects patients' rest and sleep, and brings great suffering to patients both mentally and physically. Dried shed toad slough granules can effectively relieve tumor pain, provide rapid pain relief, and improve patients' quality of life.
6. Reducing the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy: Radiotherapy and chemotherapy cause very serious damage to the human body. Taking dried shed toad slough granules together with radiotherapy and chemotherapy can play a role in enhancing efficacy and reducing toxicity, and minimize and avoid the harm of the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
7. Reducing complications and sequelae: Chemotherapy is a damaging procedure. In order to reduce its side effects, taking dried shed toad slough granules at the same time can not only enhance efficacy and reduce toxicity, but also has important significance for reducing complications and sequelae.
8. Stabilizing the body's immune system: The polysaccharides of dried shed toad slough granules can promote the synthesis of proteins and nucleic acids in bone marrow cells, accelerate the division and proliferation of bone marrow cells, improve patients' quality of life, and stabilize the body's immune system, with an effective rate as high as 93%.
9. Restoring the human body's hematopoietic function: Dried shed toad slough granules can accelerate the synthesis of nucleic acids in hematopoietic tissues, significantly inhibit the decrease of white blood cells, and restore the human body's hematopoietic function, especially with a clear inhibitory effect on the decrease of neutrophils and platelets.
10. Improving patients' quality of life: The benefits of toad slough: dried shed toad slough granules significantly improve symptoms in tumor patients such as mental fatigue and weakness, abdominal distension, pain, nausea, poor appetite, cough, diarrhea, constipation, dizziness, and drowsiness, and provide multiple anti-fatigue functions.
The market price of toad slough
1. Grade I toad slough: single weight 0.6-0.7 grams, market price about 27000 yuan/kg.
2. Grade II toad slough: single weight 0.5-0.6 grams, market price about 19000 yuan/kg.
3. Grade III toad slough: single weight 0.4-0.5 grams, market price about 15000 yuan/kg.
4. Grade IV toad slough: single weight 0.2-0.3 grams, market price about 13000 yuan/kg.
5. Grade V toad slough: single weight 0.1-0.2 grams, market price about 11000 yuan/kg.
How to tell genuine toad slough from fake
1. Shape: Genuine toad slough has a head, trunk and four limbs that are complete and intact, with no damage and no holes. The skin membrane is flat and orderly, not messy, like a dorsal view cut open along the ventral midline. Fake toad slough, however, has an incomplete membrane, a high rate of broken pieces, and many holes, and basically cannot be considered intact at all.
2. Color: Genuine toad slough has a natural and harmonious color, is not greasy, and has no stray colors. Fake toad slough, however, has a dull or even blackened color and shows an oily appearance.
3. Feel: Genuine toad slough is uniform in thickness, as thin as cicada slough and semi-transparent, soft and comfortable. Fake toad slough, however, is uneven in thickness, inconsistent in softness and hardness, and has hard lumps from patched fragments or a sense of local overlap, and may even contain intentionally mixed-in impurities.
4. Smell: Genuine toad slough has a strong and proper odor with no irritating smell. Fake toad slough, however, has an oily smell or other off-odors and has toxic side effects.