Medicinal value of snake skin

Snake skin refers to the snake shed, which is the layer of skin that the snake has shed. Snake skin has high nutritional value and certain medicinal value. It can dispel wind and calm the nerves, clear away heat and detoxify. Patients with skin itching can also use it to relieve it. Therefore, snake skin is a relatively important Chinese medicinal material in our lives. Don’t be afraid of snakes and think that snakes are useless and scary to us.

1. Dispel wind and calm the nerves: Snake skin is sweet and salty in nature, and mainly enters the liver meridian. "Ming Yi Bie Lu" says: "It is used to treat tongue-twisting and head-shaking, and the five evil spirits of adults and strange speech." Therefore, this product has the effect of dispelling wind and calming the nerves. It is often used to treat epilepsy in children.

2. Remove cataracts and improve eyesight: "Ming Yi Bie Lu" says snake skin can improve eyesight. The "Art of Using Medicines" says: "Remove the cataract." The "Compendium of Materia Medica" also says: "Remove eye cataract." This medicine tastes sweet and salty, and enters the liver meridian, so it can relieve obstructions and improve eyesight. For cataracts caused by liver and kidney deficiency, yin deficiency and damp heat, or wind-heat in the liver meridians, the symptoms include normal appearance of the pupil of one or both eyes, but a round white cataract inside the pupil. This product can be used to remove cataracts and improve eyesight.

3. Detoxification and swelling reduction: Snake skin is sweet and salty in nature. Sweetness can detoxify, while saltiness can soften and disperse lumps. It enters the liver and spleen meridians and enters the blood, so it can detoxify and reduce swelling. For example, the Compendium of Materia Medica says: "It can eliminate wooden tongue, treat heavy tongue and palate in children, tighten lips, relieve skull pain, facial sores, and eclipses. It can also treat blister sores, carbuncle in adults, and swelling and poison in fistulas."

4. Killing insects and curing ringworm: "Yi Lin Zuan Yao" says that snake skin can "remove poison, heat, and eliminate rheumatism." "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Boil the soup to wash all insect bites." "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It is good at killing insects." However, Qianjin Fang uses this product to treat ringworms. Therefore, snake skin has the effect of killing insects and treating ringworm. It can be used to treat insect bites, ringworms, worm infestations, etc. It can be taken orally or used externally.

5. Identification and application: Snake skin and black-necked snake, both medicines can dispel wind and calm the nerves. But snake skin is good at treating epilepsy and epilepsy in children. The black-necked snake is good at treating rheumatism and pain. Snake skin can improve eyesight and remove cataracts; black-necked snake can attack poison and stop convulsions.

Additional information:

Snake skin, a traditional Chinese medicine name. It is the dried epidermal membrane shed by the Colubridae animals such as the black-browed rat snake Elphe taeniura Cope, the rat snake Elphe carinata (Guenther) or the black-necked snake Zaocys dhumnades (Cantor). Collect in late spring, early summer or early winter, remove mud and sand, and dry.