Previously we introduced the traditional Chinese medicine Dilong, and today we introduce Tianlong. In fact, the dragon is also a centipede. The modern physician Zhang Xichun made a comprehensive summary of the medicinal properties and functions of centipedes in the "Records of Medicine in the Hearts of the West", and believed that "the power of centipedes to move is the fastest, the internal organs, the external meridians, and all the places where qi and blood are condensed." Sex is slightly toxic, and turn good and detoxify, all sores and sores can be eliminated, its sex is especially good at searching for wind, internal treatment of liver wind germination, epilepsy vertigo, convulsions and boils, pediatric umbilical wind; External treatment of meridian stroke, crooked mouth and eyes, numbness of hands and feet". In modern times, with more in-depth research on centipedes, clinical applications have been further expanded.
The centipede was first published in the "Shennong Materia Medica" and was listed as a lower grade. This product is born in the Great Wuchuan Valley and Jiangnan, all of which are oviparous from the mother, hence the name. In addition, there are names such as maggot, Wu Gong, Tianlong, Baijiao, and Wai Gaomu, but they are not very commonly used.
Chinese medicine
The traditional Chinese medicine centipede is the dried body of the centipede family Fempholia spinosa. It is mainly produced in Zhejiang, Hubei, Hunan and Jiangsu. Caught in spring and summer, inserted into the head and tail with bamboo chips, straightened and dried. This product has a slightly fishy smell, a special pungent odor, and a pungent and slightly salty taste. It is better to have a wide strip and a shriveled abdomen. Remove the bamboo slices, wash them, roast them over a slight heat, and cut them into sections.
This product has a pungent taste and is warm; Poisonous. Return to the liver meridian. It has the effect of relieving wind and spasmodic, relieving pain, attacking poison and dispersing knots.
Note: This product is toxic, and the dosage should not be too large. Do not use in pregnant women.
The toxic components contained in centipedes have hemolytic effects and can cause allergic reactions. A large number of centipedes can paralyze the heart muscle and can depress the respiratory center. Poisoning manifests as nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, unconsciousness, slow heartbeat, difficulty breathing, drop in body temperature, drop in blood pressure, etc. In the case of hemolytic reactions, the urine is soy sauce-colored, the stool is black, and symptoms of hemolytic anemia appear. In patients with allergies, the skin of the whole body appears with a red miliary rash, unbearable itching, redness, swelling and pain, tears of shame, miliary pus spots can be seen on the eyes and face, accompanied by fever, chest tightness, anorexia, etc., and anaphylactic shock may occur in severe cases. In addition, there are patients with liver damage and acute renal failure caused by taking centipede powder. Causes of centipede poisoning: one is too much dosage, and the other is allergic reactions. Therefore, the dosage should be strictly controlled, and people with allergies should not use it.
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Centipede. The smell is pungent and toxic. It is mainly used to treat ghost poison, snakes, insects and fish poison, killing ghosts and old spirits, warm malaria, and removing three insects.
(There are everywhere in the south of the centipede river, spring and winter stings, knots and feet, double whiskers and tails, and poisonous tongs on the head.) It is good to be bare head and foot. A centipede, a celestial dragon, can make dragons, snakes, lizards, shrimp toads, slugs, spiders, and roosters. "Zhuangzi" so-called: things are afraid of their heavens and are in the air. ）
The centipede is red and warm, with two pincers and two tails, and the head and tail are salty red. Born in the south, endowed with fire poison, so the main treatment of the "Book of Scriptures" is to attack the yin poison with fire poison.
Foolish press: The snake belongs to gold, and the centipede belongs to fire, so it can be made. The chicken should live in the Pleiades, which is the righteousness of the sun rising and the fire extinguished.
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Centipede. (Dampness) into the liver, dispelling wind, clearing stasis, heat dissipation and detoxification
Centipede (specialized in the liver). It is a poison. Sex is good at eating snakes. Therefore, there is no more thing to cure snake disease. (Centipedes instinctively sting snakes.) And it's good at running around. Therefore, the plague ghosts have to be cured by this. It also tastes spicy. Xin can disperse the wind. Therefore, all children have convulsions. The umbilical wind is silent. If you get this into the liver, you will be treated. (Burned.) Pig milk conditioning. And its temperament. Warmth can be used to heal the knot. Therefore, where blood stasis is aborted. Cold and hot in the abdomen gathered. If you get this, you will get rid of it. As for stool poisoning and other symptoms. The book can be used to regulate (such as a protruding flesh in the toenails. Commonly known as chicken eyes. Roast the centipede as the end of the dress. Vinegar at the end of the south star is used to enclose all directions. It is also the meaning of fighting poison with poison! Barefoot blackheads are preferred. Simmer over fire. Spider snake (spider snake road. Centipedes did not dare to pass by. Death to the touch. Those who have been bitten by centipedes. But catch spiders in the bite. Self-infuse of its drugs. The spider vomited in the water and lived. mulberry salt. (Medium centipede poison.) Apply it with mulberry juice and salt and garlic to heal. ）
Whole scorpions, centipedes
The whole scorpion and centipede are all poisonous and poisonous, all have strong antispasmodic and analgesic effects, each phase must be used, synergistic effect, treatment of spasmodic convulsions of liver wind internal movement, mouth and eye slanting and rheumatism stubborn paralysis, tendon and vein spasms, intractable headaches, etc.; And all of them can attack poison and disperse knots, and can be used to treat sores, ulcers, swelling, poison, scrofula, tuberculosis and other syndromes. However, the whole scorpion is flat, calms the wind and relieves spasms, and the power of attacking poison and dispersing knots is not as good as that of centipedes; The centipede is fierce and dry, good at walking, and its ability to relieve wind and spasms, detoxify and dissolve knots is better than that of the whole scorpion.
Modern pharmacology
Chinese medicine centipede mainly contains two bee venom-like components, namely histamine-like substances and hemolytic proteins. It also contains fatty oils, cholesterol, formic acid, histidine, arginine, leucine and other amino acids, sugars, proteins, as well as iron, zinc, manganese, calcium, magnesium and other trace elements.
Traditional Chinese medicine centipede has anticonvulsant, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-tumor, anti-myocardial ischemia, antibacterial, improving microcirculation, prolonging coagulation time, reducing blood viscosity and other effects. and has hemolytic and histamine-like effects.
Time: 2024