What are the effects and functions of toad skin?

Toad skin is the skin that toads naturally fall off during their growth and development process. Although the appearance of toad skin looks particularly scary, it has great medicinal value. Toad skin has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. Whether it is in modern hospitals or folk remedies, toad skin is a relatively important medicinal material. Most people don’t know much about the effects and functions of toad skin. The following is a detailed introduction to the effects and functions of toad skin.

The efficacy of toad clothes

[Properties and flavors] Fishy taste, warm nature, poisonous.

【return through meridian】Heart meridian.

[Effects] It can strengthen the body, break up blood stasis, fight cancer and reduce swelling. It is mainly used to treat esophageal cancer, liver cancer, gastric cancer, lung cancer, intestinal cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, cervical cancer, breast cancer, lymphoma and various malignant tumors.

The role of toad clothes

1. Toad skin contains hundreds of compounds. The results of animal experiments show that it can treat a variety of malignant tumors. At high doses, the anti-tumor effect on Lewis lung cancer, H22 liver cancer, and S180 sarcoma is about 50%. No toxic side effects were found when 16 grams of toad skin was taken per kilogram of mice per day, indicating that toad skin has a certain degree of safety.

2. Toads can be processed into traditional precious Chinese medicines such as dried toad skin, toad head, toad venom, toad tongue, toad liver, and toad gall, which have a good effect on the treatment of esophageal cancer, liver cancer, nephritis, diphtheria, and mumps. Toad venom contains dozens of biological ingredients, which have the effects of detoxification, swelling reduction and analgesia. Modern medicine has discovered that it has cardiotonic, diuretic, anti-cancer, anesthetic, anti-radiation and white blood cell increasing effects that cannot be replaced by other drugs.

3. Investigation on folk applications shows that toad skin has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain, sedation, diuresis, resisting colds and viruses, and has significant effects on ascites and cancer. It can also quickly and effectively enhance physical fitness and improve immune function, and promote the natural balance of human metabolism.

Identification of Toad Clothes

1. Natural toad skin: In fact, toads shed their skin while eating, so it is almost impossible for real wild and natural toad skin to be complete. Most of the whole toad skins sold on the market are obtained by human intervention using water, that is, the whole toad skin is shed with water. Natural toad skin is bound to have flaws, but if too many are missing, it will be difficult to tell the authenticity. It is best to have a retention rate of more than 50%. The ones with a strong and authentic flavor and no irritating smell are the authentic ones.

2. Real toad skin: Real toad skin is the keratinous membrane shed by the Chinese giant toad and other toads in the natural ecological environment. Toad skin collected under artificial breeding conditions without the use of any drug stimulation also belongs to this category. This toad skin is a truly precious Chinese medicinal raw material that can cure many malignant tumors and difficult and complicated diseases. The characteristics of real toad skin are that the head, torso, and limbs are intact, without damage or holes, the skin membrane is flat and orderly, not messy, like a back view cut from the central axis of the abdomen, the color is natural and harmonious, not greasy, no variegated color, slightly crispy fragrance, no grease or other odors, uniform thickness, as thin as cicada skin and translucent, soft and comfortable to the touch.

3. Counterfeit and inferior toad skin: The toad skin collected by applying "undressing hormone" type hormone drugs is a counterfeit and inferior drug with toxic side effects. It is a counterfeit product that is abused without approval and must not be used indiscriminately. Its characteristics are incomplete clothing membrane, high rate of clothing breakage, many holes, basically no integrity, dull or even black color, oily, grease or other odors, uneven thickness, different hardness, lumps of fragments or partial overlapping, and even intentionally added impurities.