The medicinal value of snake skin

Snake skins have certain medicinal value in traditional Chinese medicine, and most snake skins are from the Colubridae family. Snake skin has a slightly fishy and salty smell and is warm in nature. Its main medicinal value is to dispel wind and dredge the meridians. It is used to treat rheumatism, numbness of the limbs, stroke, and skin itching. Snake skin has high medicinal value, but due to the limitations of storage and transportation conditions, snake skin is often processed for storage. If you cut the snake skin into sections and soak it in rice wine, the effective ingredients in the snake skin will be dissolved in alcohol, and the fishy smell in the snake skin can be reduced. There are other ways to process snake skins, which can be made according to needs.

The medicinal value of snake skin

It has the effects of dispelling wind, calming the nerves, removing cataracts and detoxifying. Used for infantile convulsions, convulsions, cataracts, throat congestion, swelling and skin itching.

1. To treat carbuncle: Take the shed skin of a snake as big as an egg, add four liters of water, boil it for three or four times, remove the residue, and drink it all at once. 2. Burn the snake's shed skin and mix it with egg white to apply it. (Qianjin Fang)

2. To treat carbuncle: 1.5 liang of snake shed skin (white one), half liang of beehive, and a ball of messy hair as big as an egg (boy's hair is best). Grind the above three ingredients into powder, burn them into ashes in an iron, and grind them into powder. Take 2 spoonfuls each time, on an empty stomach with rice drink, cover until sweating, and take again. (Snake Shedding Powder from Shengji Zonglu)

3. To treat scrofula: 21 bees, 7.5 parts of snake skin, 2 centipedes (preferably collected before Dragon Boat Festival). Use 4 liang of sesame oil, add the first three ingredients into the oil, use a gentle or strong fire to dry it, remove the residue, add 2 liang of Ding powder, use seven mulberry branches as thick as chopsticks, stir quickly and wait for it to cool, let the heat out for seven days and nights, then use paper to apply to the affected area.

Snake skin can treat many pediatric diseases, such as sore throat, mouth ulcers, heavy tongue, facial ulcers, etc. It can also treat vitiligo, ulcers, etc. with good results. Therefore, choosing it to treat certain diseases is the best option, as it can treat and stabilize the condition at the same time. However, you should consult your doctor for specific usage.