What are the uses of snake products? Here are a few points to understand

1. Uses of dried snake

(1) Dried Qishe (five-step snake). It has a fishy, foul odor and a slightly salty taste, and has the effects of dispelling wind-dampness, penetrating the sinews and bones, calming convulsions, and attacking toxins. It mainly treats leprosy, joint pain, hemiplegia, facial paralysis, and numbness of the limbs. For rheumatoid arthritis pain, use 50 grams of dried sharp-nosed pit viper, 50 grams of earthworm (Guang@#@254@#@) (optionally add 15 grams each of ground beetle and stiff silkworm, and 1 centipede for better effect), grind into powder, divide equally into 10 packets, and take 1 packet per day, which has a certain therapeutic effect.

(2) Dried pit viper has the functions of dispelling wind, calming, detoxifying, relieving pain, and strengthening the body. It mainly treats leprosy, tuberculous lymphadenitis, and so on. Dried pit viper is generally used to make snake powder or to infuse liquor. In recent years, dried pit viper has been made into a distillate to treat osteomyelitis and bone tuberculosis.

(3) The dried body of the many-banded krait and its young snake, the money white-banded snake, has the effects of dispelling wind-dampness, calming, and attacking toxins. It mainly treats rheumatic joint aching pain, hemiplegia, facial paralysis, and other conditions. In folk medicine, to treat tetanus, use 1 money white-banded snake and 10 centipedes, grind together into a fine powder, take 1 gram each time, 2 grams per day (limit the dosage, and it should be taken under a physician's guidance).

2. Uses of snake powder

Snake powder has a very wide range of applications. Hunan traditional Chinese medicine practitioners use it to treat lower limb paralysis in children. As early as the 1950s, Liaoning Province used pit viper powder to treat leprosy and achieved certain results. It is also effective for various allergic skin diseases, all types of pulmonary tuberculosis, and lymphatic tuberculosis. It has also been reported that red-banded snake powder is very good for treating chronic tuberculous fistulas. For some collagen diseases, such as lupus erythematosus and nephritis, certain therapeutic effects have also been achieved. In addition, clinically it is also used to treat hyperparathyroidism, rectal prolapse, uterine prolapse, and so on. In the treatment of tumors, encouraging progress has also been made. Abroad, snake powder is used relatively commonly. Japan places particular emphasis on pit viper, calling it "hanabi," and believes it has the medicinal effects of enriching the blood, strengthening the body, eliminating fatigue, or detoxifying. It is often made into "black roast" by a method similar to China's charcoal-roasting while preserving its nature, then ground and taken.

3. Uses of snake gall

Snake gall is a precious traditional Chinese medicinal material with multiple medicinal values, and its chemical composition is roughly similar to that of mammalian bile. Bile mainly contains bile salts, phospholipids, cholesterol and its esters, and bile pigments, and it helps the snake body digest and absorb fat and detoxify. Snake gall is sweet, bitter, and cold in nature, and can calm the liver, extinguish wind, and detoxify. When used as medicine, snake gall can search out wind and remove dampness, clear fire, and improve vision. Clinically, it is mainly used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, red eyes and blurred vision, rheumatic joint pain, and so on. In the Chinese patent medicine snake gall Chuanbei liquid, snake gall is the main ingredient, and combined with other Chinese medicines, it dispels wind, stops cough, removes phlegm, and dissipates nodules, and can be used to treat wind-heat cough, excessive phlegm with asthma, chest tightness, and so on. The main ingredients of snake gall Chuanbei loquat paste are snake bile, Chuanbei, pinellia, loquat leaf, platycodon, menthol, and so on, and it has effects such as relieving cough, eliminating phlegm, relieving asthma, anti-inflammation, and inhibiting bacteria. Clinically, it has a significant effect on cough with excessive phlegm, chest tightness, asthma, and other conditions. Place fresh snake gall in a tile dish, take out the bile, mix it into white liquor of more than 50 degrees, separately add processed dried tangerine peel, dried ginger, or pepper, soak thoroughly, then take out and sun-dry, thus making three-snake-gall tangerine peel, three-snake-gall ginger, and three-snake-gall pepper, which have the effect of dispelling wind and stopping phlegm. Cut open the snake gallbladder and soak it in liquor to make snake gall liquor. For every 500 milliliters of white rice liquor of more than 50 degrees, add 2 to 3 snake galls, and take it after soaking for 1 month. Its effect is the same as three-snake liquor.

4. Uses of snake slough

Snake slough contains components such as collagen. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this product is neutral in nature and salty and sweet in taste. It has the effects of dispelling wind, calming convulsions, removing corneal opacity, detoxifying, and killing parasites. Its clinical application range is very wide, mainly used to treat skin itching, scabies and tinea, urticaria, folliculitis, cellulitis, painful swelling without a head, epidemic parotitis, mastitis, herpes zoster, infantile convulsions, convulsive spasms, corneal opacity, and other conditions. Under a physician's guidance, use 2.5 grams of snake slough, 15 grams of gambir vine, 5 grams of gastrodia, and 3.5 grams of scorpion, decoct and take with water, which has a certain therapeutic effect on infantile convulsions and spasms.