The efficacy and function of yellow-jawed snake

Yellow-jawed snake is a very good medicinal material. It is often used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat patients. It has extremely high medicinal value. Let us learn about several aspects of yellow-jawed snake.

[Alias] Yellow-throated snake (Compendium of Materia Medica), yellow snake worm, and silver eel (Biological Bulletin (3): 1, 1958).

[Source] It is the meat of the black-browed snake, a member of the Colubridae family.

[Original form] The total length is about 1.7 meters, and the snout scales are slightly wider than the height. The nasal scales are wider than they are tall, and are half as long as the frontal scales. The suture between the frontal scales and the upper anterior eye scales is slightly longer than the suture between the frontal scales. The length of the frontal scales is shorter than the suture between the two parietal scales. The length of the parietal scales is longer than the length from the snout to the front edge of the frontal scales. Upper edge of cheek scales oval, longer than high. There are 2 to 3 scales in front of the eyes, which are not connected to the frontal scales. There are 2 scales behind the eyes. There are 2 anterior temporal scales. There are 3 posterior temporal scales. There are 9 scales on the upper lip. There are 11 scales on the lower lip. There are 25 to 25 to 19 rows of body scales. There are 233 to 259 ventral scales and 84 to 111 pairs of sublabial scales. The head is brown-yellow, and there are black horizontal stripes from the cheek scales to the upper half of the last two upper lip scales, like black eyebrows. Upper lip and throat yellow. The back is olive-colored with four black vertical stripes, forming a rope-ladder pattern from the neck to the back. There are irregular black spots in longitudinal rows on the front side of the body, which gradually expand into black longitudinal bands in the back half. The back of the tail is yellow, and the underside of the tail and the sides of the body are light yellow.

[Habitat distribution] It mostly lives indoors, feeds on mice and birds, and is non-toxic. Distributed from Hebei to the Yangtze River Basin and Southwest China.

[Nature and flavor] "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Sweet, warm, slightly toxic."

【Functions and indications】 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Brewing wine or making it into pills or powders can cure wind leprosy, stubborn ringworm, and malignant sores. Soak the juice of a dead snake and apply it to scabies. Boil the juice and soak it in the arms and wrists to relieve pain. Burn the ashes and add it to pig fat to treat wind leprosy, fistula, women's breast envy, and dog bites."

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

【Source】 From Compendium of Materia Medica

Therefore, through the detailed introduction of the traditional Chinese medicine yellow-jawed snake in the above article, it is not difficult to find that yellow-jawed snake has many effects and functions, and its effect in health care is still very good.