Nicknames: Snake Skin, Snake Retreat, Long Worm Skin, Dragon Robe, Snake Shell
Harvesting and processing: can be collected throughout the year. The most common period is between April and October. After picking it up, shake off the sediment and let it dry.
Medicinal part: Dried epidermal membrane shed from the skin
Origin: "Jin Snake: mainly distributed in provinces (cities, autonomous regions) such as Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Fujian, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Henan, Gansu, and Taiwan. It is a typical non-toxic snake, and its growth is second only to pythons
Subject: Serpentidae
Original plants: Jin Snake (Wang Jin Snake), Black Eyebrow Jin Snake, Black Headed Snake, etc
Plant situation: Non toxic snakes mainly feed on rodents, frogs, birds, and bird eggs as their main food source, and even consume their own kind in times of food shortage.
Wang Jinshe: Coarse in body shape, with a total length of about 2 meters. The whole body is black, mixed with yellow flower spots, resembling cauliflower. There are several yellow horizontal stripes in the front of the body, brownish yellow on the head and back, black scales, scattered with black spots, and black longitudinal stripes formed under the tail. Preorbital scales 1, often with 1-2 small scales below, and retroorbital scales 2 (3); Temporal scales 2 (3,1)+3 (2,4), upper lip scales 3-2-3, dorsal scales 23 (25) -23 (21) -19 (17) rows, except for the outermost 1-2 rows which are smooth, the rest have strong edges; Abdominal scales 203-224; 2 points for anal scales, 69-102 pairs for caudal scales. This snake breeds and lays eggs from June to July each year, producing 8-15 eggs each time. The hatching period is about 40-45 days.
The snake has a strange odor on its body. After holding the snake, it is necessary to wash it several times with strong scented soap to remove this odor.
Newly hatched young snakes can grow between 25-35 centimeters in length, with some larger ones reaching 35-45 centimeters. They have a lighter body color and no "king" shaped markings on their heads, often leading people to mistake them for other snake species. The young snake has two short black longitudinal stripes on its pillow, with a light tea brown color on its back and irregular small black spots; There are two thin black longitudinal stripes on the back of the tail that reach directly to the tail end; There is one black dot pattern on each side of the posterior segment and tail of the body; The ventral surface is light red, with black punctate spots on both sides of the abdominal scales. Wang Jin Snake likes to eat snakes and has strong resistance to the venom of pit vipers.
Characteristics of snake molt medicinal herb: This product is cylindrical in shape, often flattened, wrinkled, or broken. The intact one resembles a snake and can grow up to 1 meter in length. The back is silver gray or light brown, glossy, with diamond or oval scales, and the joints of the scales are white, slightly wrinkled or concave; The abdomen is milky white or slightly yellow, with rectangular scales arranged in a tile like pattern. Lightweight, slightly tough in texture, with a lubricating or elastic feel when pinched, gently rubbing and making a rustling sound. It has a slight fishy smell and a light or slightly salty taste.
Snake molt medicinal properties:
The lower grade of this sutra has a salty and flat taste. It is used to treat a hundred or twenty types of seizures in children, including chills, epilepsy, cold and heat, intestinal hemorrhoids, insect venom, and snake seizures. It is good when boiled with fire. Dragon's clothing, dragon's bow clothing, and dragon's single clothing
Sour taste, calm qi, start with the Taiyin lung meridian. Publish to drive away the wind, dispel the darkness and poison.
The snake molt spreads its fur, treating sores, toxins, and swelling.
Removing the membrane and stopping seizures cannot be achieved by cicada molts or snake skins. It is extremely crude to use the essence of the essence without understanding it, but to use the essence of surface dispersion.
The original text of this scripture is salty, flat, and non-toxic. Treat one hundred or twenty types of seizures, chills, epilepsy, cold and heat, intestinal hemorrhoids, insect venom, and snake epilepsy in children. Shengchuan Valley and Fields. One dragon robe, one snake talisman, one dragon single robe, and one bow skin.
【 Origin 】 It can be found everywhere, often found on stones and in the walls and houses of households. White as silver is used as medicine.
[Taste] It has a salty and sweet taste, a mild nature, and is non-toxic (or slightly toxic).
【 Indications 】 Snake molt is the main cause of epilepsy, causing tongue and head shaking, treating skin scabies and ulcers, and improving vision and reducing opacities.
[Additional Record] Adults have five evil spirits, their speech is more and more introverted, they stop vomiting and nausea, improve eyesight, and burn to treat various sores.
Zhen Quan has sore throat and a hundred ghosts.
The scorching heat can dispel evil, stop children's fear and heat, and the decoction can cure ulcers and white scars, destroying life.
[Meng milling] tire safety.
[Dosage] Normal five to one yuan.
[Taboo] Sexual wandering is not recommended for children with seizures or epilepsy who are not affected by external factors and have liver and heart weakness. Pregnant women should avoid it and be afraid of magnets and alcohol. It should be cooked with fire.
[Preparation] Wash with licorice, dry in the sun, then spray with yellow wine and stir fry in a pot until it turns yellow. (100 pounds per snake molt, 5 pounds with alcohol)
① The Book of Canon: "The goodness of fire boiling.
② In the book "Lei Gong's Cannon Burning Theory," it is written: "Anyone who wishes to use it must first dig a pit under the house, which can be one foot and two inches deep, and place snake skin in the middle for one night, until it reaches Mao
Soak in vinegar for a while, then dry over fire and use.
③ The Compendium of Materia Medica states: "Nowadays, snake molts are washed with soapberry pods, wrapped around bamboo, soaked in wine, vinegar, or honey, and then roasted until golden brown. or
Burning ability or salt mud solid calcination, each according to the method.
Pregnant women should avoid taking it.
① The Medicine Pair: "Fear the Compassionate Stone.
② Pregnant women should avoid using it.
③ The "Compendium of Materia Medica" states: "Children with seizures and epilepsy are ineffective if they are not caused by external pathogens and are due to liver and heart deficiency.
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① Treating infantile wind epilepsy and heat shock: Three inches of snake molting (roasted), half and two parts of Xixin (removed seedlings and leaves, filed), Gouteng (filed), Huangqi (filed), and Licorice (roasted), one or two parts of rhubarb (steamed three degrees, filed, baked), and four pieces of cicada (roasted, wings, head, and feet removed). Use coarse tamping and sieving. Take one tael per serving, boil it in 80% water until it reaches 40%, remove the residue, add a little bezoar and stir well. After eating, take warm. (From St. Francis' Chronicles: Snake Shed Soup)
② Treating wind in the throat, the throat feels constricted and the qi is blocked: snake molt (burnt yellow), Angelica sinensis, etc. At the end of the day, if you mix warm wine with a dagger, you will vomit and heal. (Medical Standards)
③ Treating pediatric pharyngitis and swelling pain: snake molt powder, milk, take a one yuan knife. (Food and Medicine Heart Mirror)
④ Treat vomiting blood and tongue in children: burn snake molting powder and take it with milk. (From "Qian Jin Fang")
⑤ Treat the swelling and pain of a severely fractured palate in children, with saliva coming out of the mouth: snake molting and burning ash, grind finely, and apply a small amount. (Holy Blessing Formula)
⑥ Treating pediatric oral ulcers: snake molt, water stains make moist and soft, wipe the sores inside the mouth. (St. Francis of Assisi)
⑦ Treating cataracts: one snake molt, two ice flakes, and one silver vermilion. First, burn the snake molt to preserve its essence, and then grind it finely together with other drugs. Three times a day, take a small look inside each time. (Selected Materials on New Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapy in Inner Mongolia)
⑧ Treating acne toxin and eye shadow: Two taels of snake molt (as the base), five taels of melon seeds (ground into powder). Boil one piece of sheep liver in batches, add it to the medicine powder for two yuan, tie the thread tightly, cook it with rice swill, and eat it frequently with children. ("On Prescriptions for Children's Acne and Eruption" Snake Shed Powder)
⑨ Treating spotted rashes in the eyes, with the membrane invading the eyes and forming beads: one or two pufferfish, two or seven soapberry seeds, and one snake shedding its skin (intact). Put it into a small jar, seal it with mud and burn it, no smoke should be emitted, it should be stored and ground to powder. Mix warm water for one yuan, after eating. ("Treatise on Emergency Prescriptions for Children's spotted rashes" Snake Shed Powder)
⑩ To treat carbuncle and abscess without forming pus: Grind the snake molt into fine powder, apply vinegar to the swelling, and it will dry easily. It can also be applied only with snake skin. (St. Francis of Assisi)
(11) Treatment for children with breast pain and swelling caused by blowing: snake molt measuring one foot and seven inches, burned until black, finely ground, taken with a cup of good wine, slightly warm and taken, and if not very effective, taken again. (Milk Production Collection Testing Formula)
⑿ Treating sores: A snake sheds its skin as big as a chicken. Boil four liters of water until it boils three or four times, remove the residue, and take it all at once. Second, burn snake molting ash and apply it with chicken roe. (From "Qian Jin Fang")
⒀ Treating heat and swelling: Snakes shed half of their skin (white ones), expose half of their beehives, and have messy hair as big as a chicken (especially for young ones). Top three flavors, file and grind into powder in an iron, then burn to ashes. Grind finely until loose. Take two taels per dose, adjust the hollow rice drink, cover with sweat, and take more. (St. Francis' Chronicles: The Snake Sheds and Scatters)
After treating scrofula, there are 21 bees, 70 and a half snake molts, and 2 centipedes (preferably harvested before the Dragon Boat Festival). Apply four liang of sesame oil, add the first three flavors to the oil, dry them with civil and martial fire, remove the residue, add two liang of flour, use seven thick mulberry branches like bamboo shoots, stir vigorously until cold, release the heat for seven days and nights, then spread the affected area with paper. (From "The Golden Mirror of Medicine" Snake Shed Cream)
(15) Treatment of otitis media: snake molt 97%, spider mites 2%, ice flakes 1%. Grind fine powder together and store it in bottles. First, wash the pus in the ear and blow it in
Medicine powder, once a day. (Collection of Prescriptions for New Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapy in Guangxi)
(16) Treatment for breast swelling and pain: three yuan each for snake molt, deer antlers, and exposed beehives. Co firing fine powder. Take Huangjiu (yellow wine) orally. Take it twice a day, one dollar each time. (Jilin Chinese Herbal Medicine)
The treatment for leaking sores and bleeding is not limited: snake skin (roasted), galls, and dragon bones each cost one and a half coins, and five coins for continuation. Finally, add a small amount of musk and apply it with saliva and saliva. ("Danxi Heart Method" Snake Shed Powder)
(18) Treating ringworm sores: Burn a snake molt and drink it. (From "Qian Jin Fang")
(19) Treatment for urinary obstruction: One whole snake molt. Burning ability, research. Warm the wine and drink it. (Gangmu)
1. Treatment of chyluria: Long Yi is one square foot. Bake on the tile and grind finely. Add an appropriate amount of brown sugar and take one dose per day. (Xuzhou "Selection of New Medical Therapies with Single Formula Verification")
(21) Treatment of pinworms: Two coins of snake molt (roasted yellow), one cent of ice flakes. Study together in detail. Wipe the anus before going to bed. (Jilin Chinese Herbal Medicine)
(22) Treatment for children and skull removal: Boil the snake to remove its skin, apply it to the middle marrow of the pig's cheek, apply it to the top, and do it three or four times a day. (From "Qian Jin Fang")
According to the "Commentary on the Classic of Materia Medica", "Snake molting can enter the liver and dispel evil. Children may experience seizures, chills, and fever, while snakes may have seizures and shake their tongues and heads. Adults may also have five evils, and their speech may be more withdrawn. All of these are considered diseases in the liver meridian, and snake molting can induce various medicines to enter the liver and dispel evil. Therefore, the main symptoms are as follows. It is good at killing insects, so it mainly deals with intestinal hemorrhoids, insect toxins, and malignant sores. Evil dispells Mu Ping, thus stopping vomiting, coughing, and improving vision.
[Preparation] Snake Shed: Remove impurities and cut into sections.
Wine snake molt: Take snake molt segments and stir fry them dry according to the wine roasting method (Appendix II D). For every 100kg of snake molt, use 15kg of yellow wine.
[Taste] Salty, sweet, and flat.
Return to the liver meridian.
【 Functions and Indications 】 Dispelling wind, calming shock, detoxifying, and relieving opacities. Used for children with convulsions, spasms, opacities, pharyngitis, swelling, and skin itching.
【 Usage and Dosage 】 2-3g; Swallow 0.3-0.6g at the end of grinding
[Storage] Store in a dry place to prevent decay.
① The Classic of Chinese Medicine states: "The main symptoms of epilepsy in children include convulsions, seizures, cold and heat, intestinal hemorrhoids, and seizures caused by worms and venomous snakes.
② The master shook his tongue and head, and the adult's five evil words became more and more withdrawn, with sores, nausea and cough, and improved eyesight.
③ The Treatise on Medicinal Properties: "Treat pharyngitis.
④ The Japanese Materia Medica: "Stop nausea and vomiting. Treat children's palpitations, premature ejaculation, ulcers, and vitiligo.
⑤ The "Medication Heart Method": "Remove the smegma.
⑥ Compendium of Materia Medica: "Dispelling wind and killing insects. Burn the powder and take it orally to treat women's milk blowing, adult throat wind, reduce eye strain, eliminate wooden tongue, apply it to children's heavy tongue, heavy palate, tight lips, relieve skull, facial ulcers, lunar erosion, Tianpao sores, adult swelling, leaking sores and toxins, boil soup to wash away all kinds of evil insects and injuries.
⑦ The Compendium of Medical Forestry: "Relieve liver and protect heart, eliminate toxins and heat, and eliminate rheumatism.
⑧ Classification of Herbal Properties: "Treat eye swelling and head wind, massage and apply sores, treat soup and fire injuries, absorb dampness and dry water from sores, and treat sores.
Personal opinion, for reference only