What are the effects and actions of the centipede?
The centipede has the effects of calming wind and stopping spasms, resolving toxins and dissipating masses, and unblocking collaterals and relieving pain. Traditionally it is mainly used for spasms and convulsions such as acute and chronic infantile convulsions and tetanus, as well as sores and swellings with toxic swelling, stubborn headache, and rheumatic arthralgia. According to modern pharmacological research, the centipede has antitumor, sedative, antispasmodic and antifungal effects. The medicinal components of the centipede are precisely its toxic components, namely histamine-like substances and hemolytic proteins.
Calming wind and relieving spasms, used for wind-pattern convulsions and pain
1. Convulsions from stroke. 3 centipedes, 18 g astragalus, 12 g angelica, 6 g each of scorpion, notopterygium and pubescent angelica root, chopped, decocted in water, as Zhufeng Tang (Wind-Expelling Decoction).
2. Whooping cough with spasms. Equal parts centipede and licorice, roasted dry, ground into powder, taken orally, 3 times a day, 1.5 g each time for ages 1 to 2, 2 g for ages 3 to 4. Taken continuously for 7 days as 1 course, with an effective rate of 90%.
Reducing inflammation and treating sores, used for inflammatory swellings and sores
1. Osteomyelitis. 10 centipedes, roasted dry, ground into powder, divided into 7 portions, put into capsules, 1 portion taken daily. An appropriate amount of centipede can also be pressed into tablets; this can extract dead bone, improve efficacy and shorten the course of treatment. If a fistula is present, a Vaseline gauze strip dipped in centipede powder can be inserted into the fistula, with the dressing changed once daily. This medicine has anti-inflammatory effects on both acute and chronic osteomyelitis, promotes new bone shell formation and promotes fistula healing.
2. Paronychia. 1 centipede, 1.5 g each of realgar and dried alum, ground together into fine powder. Separately take 1 egg, break one end, pour out part of the egg white until it no longer overflows when a finger is inserted, then put the finely ground medicinal powder into the egg and stir well; the affected finger is then inserted from the broken end of the egg, and the eggshell is warmed over a small fire for more than 1 hour, so that the affected finger feels damp and hot. Warm and bake 1 to 2 times daily; after warming treatment, bandage with sterile gauze, and the inflammatory swelling and pain can subside. Generally after 1 to 5 days of treatment, recovery can be achieved; if after warming treatment a local abscess rapidly forms, it can be incised and drained under sterile operation.
Centipede soaked in liquor can treat traumatic injuries
1. For bruising from traumatic injury that has not broken the skin, with swelling and pain, wiping with centipede liquor can quickly reduce swelling and relieve pain; it also has good effects on toxic sores and unnamed swellings.
2. The specific soaking method is to put a relatively large live centipede into a bottle, add baijiu of 50 degrees or above, cap tightly, and place in a cool, dark place for about 25 days or more, after which it is basically ready for use. For external use only; drinking it directly is toxic! Contraindicated for pregnant women.
3. After the hands have touched it, wash the hands clean with soap or hand sanitizer before touching food.
Eliminating toxins and resisting cancer, used for cancerous tumors with accumulated toxins
1. Liver cancer. 15 g each of centipede, asafoetida and trogopterus dung, 4.5 g red ladybug (stir-fried with glutinous rice), 9 g prepared langdu, 21 g honeycomb, 24 g garden balsam seed, 30 g each of scorpion, stiff silkworm, momordica seed and clematis, 50 g shancigu, ground together into fine powder, made with water into Ruanjian Wan (softening-mass pills), 1.5 g per dose, 2 times a day, taken with warm boiled water. It can relieve symptoms, soften and shrink the mass, and prolong survival.
2. Breast cancer. 2 centipedes, 9 g each of honeycomb, seaweed, kelp and trichosanthes root, 15 g each of fritillaria and scrophularia, 30 g each of oyster and prunella, chopped, decocted in water and taken in 2 divided doses, 1 dose daily. Until the skin depression recovers, the mass and nodules soften and shrink, and the swelling and pain disappear.
3. Cervical cancer. 2 centipedes, 0.15 g musk, 0.3 g borneol, 3 g each of calomel and realgar, 15 g phellodendron, ground together into fine powder, wrap an appropriate amount in the middle of sterile gauze, send into the vaginal fornix, closely against the cervix, apply medicine once daily, discontinued during menstruation. As the condition improves, the number of applications can be reduced, until the biopsy turns negative. At the same time, take the following decoction every other day: 2 centipedes, 2.5 g bupleurum, 3 g scorpion, 4.5 g each of kelp, seaweed, cyperus, atractylodes and poria, 6 g angelica, 9 g raw white peony, chopped, decocted in water. Recovery can be achieved. Choriocarcinoma: 2 centipedes, 6 g honeycomb, 60 g white snake, chopped, decocted in water, 1 dose daily, decocted and taken in 2 doses. It can eliminate the mass, relieve metastatic symptoms, until vaginal bleeding stops and urine pregnancy tests are repeatedly negative, and recovery can be achieved.
4. Ovarian cancer. 15 g centipede, 1 g frankincense, 3 g scorpion, 5 g each of seeded honeycomb and live snail, 10 g nux vomica. First soak the nux vomica in boiling water for 24 hours, then change to clean water and soak continuously for 7 to 10 days, take out, peel and sun-dry, stir-fry until yellow in sesame oil and grind into powder; stir-fry the centipede, scorpion and honeycomb until slightly yellow, pound into powder; mash the snail, sun-dry and grind into powder. Grind all the medicinal powders together and make into pills, 3 times a day. Take with the following decoction: 30 g each of oldenlandia, coix seed and photinia leaf, 15 g each of turtle shell, peach kernel, prepared rehmannia, prepared pangolin, sparganium, zedoary and astragalus, 12 g each of red peony, salvia and cyperus, 9 g each of aurantium, fennel and Paris polyphylla, chopped, decocted in water and taken in 3 divided doses, 1 dose daily. It can relieve symptoms and soften and shrink the mass. It can be combined with surgical resection. It is also suitable for those with postoperative vaginal metastasis.
5. Penile cancer. 30 g each of centipede, prepared nux vomica and shancigu, 9 g prepared rhubarb, 15 g each of arnebia and coptis, 45 g each of iris seed and paris root, 60 g each of chrysanthemum, seaweed, sparganium, zedoary, codonopsis, astragalus, honeysuckle, sophora root and rhaponticum, ground together into fine powder, made with vinegar into pills, 10 g per dose, 2 doses daily. If the head of the penis has already become cauliflower-like, apply locally Wuhu Dan (60 g each of mercury, white alum, blue alum and saltpeter, 30 g table salt, ground together until no mercury star beads are visible, refined by the method of calcined elixir preparation into Wuhu Dan white crystals) crystals 1.2 g, add 0.5 g toad venom and 1 g datura flower, grind evenly together, use rice as an excipient, roll into nail-shaped preparations pointed at both ends, each 4 cm long, 0.3 cm in middle diameter, weighing about 0.72 g; depending on the size of the cancerous ulcer, insert 2 to 3 half-branches, change the dressing every other day. Until the necrotic flesh decays and falls off, then use Shengji San to close the wound.
6. Leukemia. 26 pieces each of centipede, gecko and toad, 24 g each of leech and garden balsam seed, 48 g each of cynanchum and scutellaria indica, 90 g each of Paris polyphylla, tinospora root, andrographis, polygonum cuspidatum and oldenlandia, ground together into fine powder, combined with pig bile and water chestnut to make granules, pressed into tongue-cancer tablets, or also made into pills, 9 g per dose, 3 doses daily. At the same time, apply Xiao'ai San externally to areas of liver and spleen enlargement (48 g each of raw pinellia pedatisecta, raw pinellia, raw arisaema, raw gardenia, raw aconitum, goldenrod, raw kusnezoff monkshood, andrographis and scutellaria indica, 90 g each of wild mosla and hibiscus leaf, 138 g tinospora root, ground together into fine powder, mixed with an appropriate amount of honey and applied externally to the affected area), changed once daily. With such internal and external treatment, until symptoms are completely relieved, the mass shrinks, and survival is prolonged.