What are the medicinal values ​​of centipedes?

With the construction of cities, the centipedes that were common in our childhood are becoming increasingly rare in cities. When we were young, if centipedes appeared at home, our elders would definitely ask us to stay away from them, because centipedes are poisonous. If you are accidentally bitten, it is easy to get redness, swelling and pain, and sometimes it may cause other diseases. Although centipedes are poisonous, did you know that they also have very high medicinal value?

Main Ingredients

It contains two toxic ingredients similar to bee venom, namely histamine-like substances and hemolytic proteins; it also contains fatty oils, cholesterol (Cholesterol), formic acid (Formic acid), etc. δ-Hydroxylysine has also been isolated; the amino acids include histidine, arginine, ornithine, lysine, glycine, alanine, valine, leucine, phenylalanine, serine, taurine, and glutamic acid.

The medicinal value of centipedes

Centipedes have been used as traditional medicinal animals for thousands of years. Studies have shown that centipedes contain two toxic amine-like substances similar to bee venom, hemolytic proteins, and a variety of active substances such as tyrosine and formic acid. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that centipedes are pungent, warm and poisonous, and have the effects of dispelling wind and calming the nerves, calming wind and fighting cancer, detoxifying and dispersing knots, and unblocking meridians and relieving pain. Centipedes are used as medicine to treat children's convulsions, convulsions, facial paralysis, tetanus, rheumatism, alopecia areata and other diseases. The centipede extract can resist tuberculosis and skin fungi. In folk culture, people remove the head and feet of centipedes, grind them into powder and take them internally to treat tuberculous pleurisy, tuberculous pleurisy, pulmonary tuberculosis, sporadic tuberculosis, breast tuberculosis and cervical lymph node tuberculosis. In addition, centipedes are also used clinically to treat scrofula, osteomyelitis, herpes simplex, chronic ulcers, burns, etc., all with certain therapeutic effects.

Although centipedes have certain medicinal value, living centipedes are still dangerous. We must be more careful when we encounter centipedes, especially to prevent children from coming into contact with them. At the same time, the medicinal properties of centipedes come from professional processing of their toxicity. We must never use unprocessed centipedes as medicine at will.