The efficacy and function of crocodile armor

Alligator shell is a medicinal material and is quite common in life. We can eat alligator shell appropriately. Since many people don’t know much about alligator shell, let’s take a look at it below.

[Other name] Fish shell (Ben Jing).

[Source] The scaly armor of the Chinese alligator, a member of the Alligator family .

[Original form] Yangtze alligator, also known as: Chinese alligator (Ben Jing), crocodile (Tao Hongjing), earth dragon (Xu Bowu Zhi), crocodile dragon (Gang Mu), pig dragon.

[Habitat distribution] Distributed in Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Jiangxi.

[Processing] "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Roast with butter or wine."

【Nature and flavor】Pungent, warm, toxic.

[Functions and indications] It can remove blood stasis, eliminate accumulation, kill parasites, and treat accumulation of masses, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, sores, scabies, and malignant sores.

【Note】 "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Shuqi is its envoy. It is afraid of dog gall, gansui and yanhua."

【Explanations by various scholars】 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "The symptoms treated by crocodile shell are mostly related to the Jueyin meridian. Its functions are to calm the liver wood, regulate blood, and kill insects. "Qianjin Fang" has a crocodile shell soup for treating wind leprosy; nowadays, many drugstores hang it up, saying that it can ward off borers, which also means that it can kill insects."

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] 1. Lu Fan's "Shi Shu": The crocodile is shaped like a lizard or scorpion, with four legs, more than ten feet long, and lays eggs as big as goose eggs. Its armor is like armor, which is the armor of the crocodile used in medicine today. Its skin is hard and thick, and can bulge out.

Above we introduced what alligator shell is. We know that alligator shell can not only be used to treat diseases but also has good health benefits, so we must be good at using alligator shell to protect our health.