What valuable things can centipede extract?

Centipede, also known as Tianlong and Baijiao, is the whole body of a giant centipede with few thorns in the centipede family. Catch it every spring and summer, insert two pointed bamboo pieces into the head and tail, tie them tightly and dry them, or blanch them in boiling water and dry them for raw use. It is warm, salty, pungent and toxic, and enters the liver meridian. It is determined that it contains two toxic components similar to bee venom, namely histamine-like substances and hemolytic proteins, as well as fatty oil, cholesterol, formic acid and various amino acids. It has the effects of expelling pathogenic wind, calming convulsion, attacking toxin and resolving hard mass, and can be used for treating apoplexy, convulsion, tetanus, whooping cough, tuberculous lymphadenitis, tumor accumulation and sore swelling.

The record of medical heat and ginseng in the west contains: "centipede, with the fastest running power, can open viscera from the inside and meridians from the outside, wherever qi and blood converge." Modern pharmacological studies have confirmed that Jiejing powder made of centipede and scorpion has good anticonvulsant effect; Can inhibit a variety of skin fungi to varying degrees; Scolopendra Leech Injection can inhibit Ehrlich ascites cancer, leukemia, liver cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, gastric cancer and other cancer cells. It can enhance the function of reticuloendothelial cells.

Scolopendra can be taken into decoction, and the usual dosage is 1~5 tablets; Can also be made into pill or powder. External use: appropriate amount of grinding dressing. The folk prescription for treating mouth-eye deviation after stroke: take a centipede, bake it and grind it into powder, and apply pig bile to the affected area, which has a good effect. Treatment of convulsion epilepsy: Scolopendra and Scorpio are equally ground into fine powder, 0.9 ~ 1.5g each time, twice a day, and taken with boiling water. Note: pregnant women should not use it.