Which scorpion has high medicinal value?

Many people know something about scorpions. Scorpions are highly toxic, especially the stinger at the back of the scorpion. People will be poisoned after being stung, but the toxicity is not high. In addition to being an animal, research has found that scorpions have high medicinal value. Eating scorpions can prevent gout and joint diseases. There are different types of scorpions, so which scorpion has high medicinal value? What effect can eating scorpions have on the body?

Scorpions have been used as medicine for thousands of years, but it is only in recent years that they have become a delicacy.

Scorpions are poisonous and frightening, and are often mentioned alongside snakes. The so-called “vicious and scorpion-hearted” is a metaphor for cruel people. Chen Tao's poem "Xiao Di Nong" says: "The smell of snakes and scorpions in autumn makes one's bones cold."

Another saying is "Avoid evil as you would fear snakes and scorpions." Snakes and scorpions are indeed poisonous creatures that people fear, but people in Guangdong and Guangxi love to eat snakes. The more poisonous the snake is, the better it tastes. Just like puffer fish is poisonous, but people still say that people "eat puffer fish like crazy". In fact, any poisonous substance that can become a delicacy does not require you to risk your life to eat it, as there are scientific methods to disinfect it.

If there is a way to eat snakes in the South, how can there be no way to eat scorpions in the North? So it doesn't seem strange to go from eating snakes to eating scorpions.

Scorpions are arthropods that give birth to live young and belong to the family Scorpionidae. They have two crab-like chelicerae on their head and thorax, which look quite majestic when they wave them. Its abdomen is divided into two parts, the front abdomen has seven segments and the back abdomen has five segments. The tail has a stinger that can bend forward and contains poison glands. It often lives in gravel, bark, or burrows in dry areas.

This creature is produced in large quantities in Shandong, Hebei, Anhui, Henan and other places, and the Linqu Mountain area in Weifang City, Shandong is particularly famous for its scorpions.

The best time to catch scorpions is around Grain Rain. At this time, the scorpions, which have been dormant for a whole winter, are extremely rich in protein. Scorpion catchers, holding a salt water jar in one hand and a bamboo or iron clamp in the other, push open the cracks in the rocks and often find hundreds of scorpions living in groups. At this time, their movements are not very flexible, so they are easy to catch.

Just grab it with a pair of tongs and toss it in the brine tank. Soak in salt water for six to eight hours, then boil it to death in salt water, rinse it with clean water, and dry it before it can be used as medicine. This is called a whole scorpion.

The therapeutic effects of the whole scorpion are: calming wind and relieving spasms, activating blood circulation and relieving pain, detoxifying and healing sores, and lowering blood pressure. If you use two whole scorpions and fry them and eat them, it can cure mumps in children with excellent results.

Since children can eat fried scorpions, it is not difficult to say whether they are poisonous. But what is the scientific basis for the toxicity of poisonous things? After consulting the literature, the author found that the book "Chinese Materia Medica" published by Shandong Medical College said: "The main body of scorpion venom is "toxic protein" which is soluble in water, dilute hydrochloric acid and salts, and can be divided into at least two kinds of proteins.

After the scorpion's venomous protein is decomposed, it becomes harmless substances such as oxygen, enzymes, gastrin, potassium permanganate and potassium hypochlorite. In addition, it contains a large amount of lecithin and cholelith. "It can be seen that through a series of soaking processes such as salt water soaking, salt water boiling, and then rinsed with clean water, the scorpion venom has been decomposed and cleaned.

From a health care perspective, the venom on the scorpion's tail is only a partial toxin, and it is also the essence of all things in the scorpion's body. It does not harm the body. Boiling the scorpion in salt water can sterilize and disinfect it, and there will be no toxins in reality. So which scorpion has high medicinal value is a question that many people are concerned about. Scorpions, regardless of their type, have a good effect on promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and treating dysmenorrhea, but in reality you can't eat too much, and this is something you need to keep in mind.