What disease can snake skin cure?

Since ancient times, shed snake skins have been used as medicine, especially in rural areas where people pick up snake skins, instead of selling them to pharmacies, they will use them to make wine after self-screening to achieve a tonic effect. Snakes are cold-blooded animals. Although many people are afraid of or disgusted by snakes, the whole body of a snake is a good material for medicine. For example, snake skin can be used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat many diseases. The following are some common conditions treated with snake skin.

1. Sore and swollen throat. Burn snake skin and grind it into powder, take 5 grams with breast milk.

2. Throat disease and difficulty breathing. Use roasted snake skin and angelica, grind into powder in equal parts. Take 5 grams with warm wine, and it is effective if you vomit. Another method: Crush the snake skin and burn it to produce smoke, then suck it into the throat through a bamboo tube. Another method: wrap a white plum with snake skin and hold it in the mouth.

3. Heavy tongue in children. Grind snake slough into powder and mix with vinegar for application.

4. The child’s mouth is tight (unable to open or close, unable to eat or drink). Burn snake skin and apply the ashes inside your mouth (wash your mouth first).

5. Children develop ulcers on their head and face. Burn snake skin into ashes and mix with lard to apply on the skin.

6. For children with hemorrhage, burn snake skin into ashes and mix with breast milk to make 2.5 grams of the medicine.

7. Pannus. There are snake skin strips, which are washed, dried, cut into small pieces, and made into cakes with white flour. Roasted until they turn black, and then ground into powder. Take 5 grams each time, after meals, with warm water. Take twice a day.

8. Difficulty in urination. Get a whole snake skin, burn it to preserve its essence, grind it into powder, and take it with warm wine.

9. Stone carbuncle has no pus and is as hard as stone. Apply snake slough on the carbuncle, it will become soft overnight and easy to treat.

10. The swelling has no head. Burn snake skin into ashes and mix with lard to apply on the affected area.

11. The malignant ulcer is similar to leprosy and does not heal for a long time. Burn a whole snake skin into ashes, mix with lard and apply on sores. Burn another snake skin and take it with warm wine.

12. Vitiligo. Burn snake skin into ashes and mix with vinegar to apply on the affected area.