What is the effect of snake skin shedding?

As we all know, snakes need to shed their skin continuously as they grow. The shed skin is often used by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners to treat patients with swelling, pain, arthritis, etc., mainly because snake skin contains special medicinal ingredients. However, you should not eat snake skin privately in your daily life, because many snake skins are poisonous and need to be treated by a professional doctor before use. So, what is the use of the snake's shed skin?

Nutritional value of snake skin

1. The dried epidermal membrane shed by the king snake contains collagen, and the serum contains anti-toxin factors, which are acidic proteins with a relative mass of about 6700.

2. The dry membrane of the fishing snake contains collagen, amino acids, glycogen, nucleic acids, aminopeptidase, and β-glucuronidase, lactate dehydrogenase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, di- and tri-phosphate pyridine nucleotide diaphorase, esterase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, and phosphorylase.

The efficacy and function of snake slough

Snake skin tastes sweet and salty, is neutral in nature, is poisonous, and enters the liver and spleen meridians. It has the effects of dispelling wind, calming the nerves, removing cataracts, reducing swelling and killing insects. It is mainly used to treat infantile epilepsy, throat wind and mouth ulcers, wooden tongue and heavy tongue, eye opacity and cataract, furuncle, carbuncle, scrofula, mumps, hemorrhoids and scabies.

1. Ben Jing: "It is used to treat children's convulsions, epilepsy, cold and heat, intestinal hemorrhoids, and epilepsy caused by insects, poisons, and snakes."

2. "Bie Lu": "It is used to treat tongue shaking and head shaking, five evil words of adults, evil sores, vomiting and coughing, and improving eyesight."

3. "Medicinal Properties": "Treats throat paralysis."

4. "Rihuazi Bencao": "It can stop vomiting and treat children's palpitations, inducing labor, ulcers, and vitiligo."

5. "The Secret of Medication": "Remove the film."

6. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can dispel wind and kill insects. Burn it into powder and take it to treat women's milk blowing, adults' throat wind, eye opacity, wooden tongue, children's heavy tongue, heavy palate, tight lips, skull, facial sores, lunar eclipse, sky sores, adults' carbuncle, fistula and swelling, boils and poison, boils and soup can wash all kinds of insect wounds."

7. "Medical Collection": "It soothes the liver and protects the heart, removes toxic heat, and eliminates rheumatism."

8. "Classification of Herbal Medicines": "It can treat eye swelling and head wind, calcine and grind it and apply it to sores, burns caused by hot water or fire, absorb moisture from sores and dry water, and treat sores."

Snake skin recipe

① Treat epilepsy and convulsions in children: three inches of snake molt skin (roasted), half a liang each of Asarum (remove the seedlings and leaves, file), Uncaria rhynchophylla (file), Astragalus membranaceus (file), and Licorice (roasted), one liang of Rhubarb (steamed three times, file, and roasted), and four grasshoppers (roasted, remove the wings, head, and legs). Put it on a coarse sieve. Take one spoonful each time, add eight parts water, boil until four parts are left, remove the residue, add a little bezoar, stir well, and take warm after meals. (Snake slough soup from Shengji Zonglu)

② Treats sore throat, feeling of being tied up in the throat, and air blockage: snake skin (roasted until yellow) and angelica in equal parts. Grind it into powder, mix one spoonful of it with warm wine, and it will cure vomiting. (Medical Approval)

③Treat swollen and painful throat in children: burn snake skin into powder and take one spoonful with breast milk. (Food and Medicine Mirror)

④To treat vomiting blood and heavy tongue in children: burn snake skin to make powder and take it with milk. (Qianjin Fang)

⑤To treat children's heavy, broken, swollen and painful palate with drooling in the mouth: burn snake skin to ashes, grind into fine powder, and apply a small amount to the affected area. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑥Treat children’s mouth ulcers: Use snake skin, soak it in water to make it soft, and then wipe the ulcers in the mouth. (The Record of the Holy Spirit)

How to make snake slough

Snake scrambled eggs

Ingredients: 10g snake skin, 150g eggs, 1g salt, 10g vegetable oil

practice:

1. Wash the snake skin and chop it into small pieces. Then beat the eggs into a bowl, add the chopped snake skin and fine salt, and stir repeatedly.

2. Add oil into the pot, add snake skin powder, fine salt and eggs when the oil is hot, and stir-fry until cooked.

Usage: 6 grams for children under 10 years old and 10 grams for children over 10 years old.

Efficacy: dispel wind and reduce swelling. Suitable for children with mumps.

How to eat snake skin

For internal use: decoct in water, 0.5-1 qian; or grind into powder. For external use: decoct in water for washing or grind into powder for application.

Side effects of snake sloughing

Snake skin tastes sweet and salty, but it is poisonous. You need to follow the doctor's advice when using it. The specific side effects are not yet known, but it will be fine as long as you don't mix them privately. Be sure to ask your doctor about possible side effects before using it.