Wu Gong's efficacy and effects

The centipede is also known as the celestial dragon and the hundred-foot centipede, and "Wu Gong" is the name in the ancient book "Guang Ya". The centipede is a multi-segmented creature that is very thin and long in appearance, with many legs. Timid people will feel creepy when seeing a centipede. Centipedes have poisonous juice in their bodies, which can be used as weapons when encountering enemies. Centipedes are active at night and their food mainly consists of insects and earthworms. In fact, centipedes can be used as medicine, and have the effects of detoxification and pain relief.

1. The efficacy of centipedes

Centipede tastes spicy, warm in nature and is poisonous. Enters the liver meridian.

Functions and indications: dispel wind, calm the nerves, attack toxins, and disperse nodules. It is used to treat stroke, epilepsy, tetanus, whooping cough, scrofula, tuberculosis, tumors, sores, tinea, alopecia, hemorrhoids, and burns. It is also used in modern clinical practice to treat tuberculosis (tuberculous pleurisy, tuberculous pleurisy, pulmonary tuberculosis, sporadic tuberculosis, bone tuberculosis, breast tuberculosis and cervical lymph node tuberculosis, etc.) and cancer (esophageal cancer, breast cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, uterine cancer, lip gland cancer, etc.).

2. The role of centipedes

Anti-tumor effect: Centipede extract has a certain effect on animal transplanted tumors.

Antibacterial effect: The aqueous extract of this product has varying degrees of inhibitory effect on a variety of skin fungi. In vitro test tube methods showed that the water extract, ethanol and ether extracts of this product did not show direct inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Sarcina, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans.

Centipede soaked in wine can cure bruises. If the bruises cause unbroken blood stasis, swelling and pain, rubbing them with centipede wine can quickly reduce swelling and relieve pain. It also has a good effect on poisonous sores and unknown swellings.

It can clear the meridians and relieve pain. It is used for stubborn rheumatism and intractable headaches.

This product also has the similar wind-clearing, collateral-draining and analgesic effects as the whole scorpion. It is used for stubborn rheumatism and can be used together with wind-dispelling, dampness-removing and collateral-draining drugs such as Saposhnikovia divaricata, Angelica dahurica and Clematis chinensis. It can be used together with Gastrodia elata, Ligusticum chuanxiong, Bombyx batryticatus, etc. to treat stubborn headaches or migraines that cannot be cured for a long time.

It can attack toxins and disperse nodules. It is used for sores, swellings, scrofula and tuberculosis.

This product uses poison to fight poison, and has a pungent taste and dispels stagnation. This product can be mixed with realgar and pig bile to make a paste, which is very effective for external application on malignant sores and swellings, such as Buer Powder. Grind it into a fine powder with tea leaves and apply it to treat scrofula ulcers. If this product is roasted until yellow, ground into fine powder, and taken with boiled water, or used together with coptis root, rhubarb, raw licorice, etc., it can treat snake bites.

3. Side effects of centipedes

The powdered centipede has a strong odor when swallowed, which often causes nausea in patients. Therefore, it can be dried, ground into powder, sieved, and put into capsules for oral administration. This can not only ensure the therapeutic effect, but also make it easy to control the dosage and avoid poisoning.

Centipedes contain toxic components similar to bee venom, which can cause hemolysis and allergic reactions. Large doses can paralyze the myocardium and suppress the respiratory center. Those with hemolytic reactions may have soy sauce-colored urine and symptoms of hemolytic anemia. Allergic reactions may cause systemic allergic rash, itching, and even anaphylactic shock.

Clinically, overdose usually causes poisoning reactions such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, unconsciousness, slow heartbeat, difficulty breathing, decreased body temperature, and decreased blood pressure.

After being bitten by a centipede, local fever, burning, redness, swelling, and pain will occur, and blisters and necrosis may form. In severe cases, it may cause lymphadenitis and tissue necrosis, and sometimes purpura may appear on the entire limb.

Centipede Taboo

Pregnant women should avoid taking this medicine.