What are the healing properties of scorpions?

People feel particularly scared when they hear about scorpions because they are highly poisonous. However, scorpions are a very good traditional Chinese medicine because they contain very high medicinal value, which can treat many diseases. However, many people do not know much about them, so they have no idea about the effects of scorpions and what their functions are. Let us learn about it together.

Scorpion wine, if consumed regularly, can calm wind and relieve pain, detoxify and resolve nodules, dredge meridians and relieve pain. Scorpion wine contains 22 kinds of amino acids and a variety of trace elements, vitamins, taurine, etc. needed by the human body. It has no toxic side effects on patients and is a high-end nutritional agricultural supplement suitable for men, women, young and old, and for strengthening the body. Its function can improve the human body's functions and physiological functions in both directions, and has good therapeutic effects on the nervous system, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular system, liver, kidney, and skin. It has a significant effect on the treatment of rheumatism, shoulder pain, scapulohumeral inflammation, headache, facial paralysis, and women's low back pain.

The dried whole insect has a flat, oblong head, thorax and anterior abdomen, and a tail-shaped posterior abdomen. The complete one is about 6 cm long. The whole body is green-brown, the abdomen and limbs are yellow, and the tip of the tail spine is brown. After the chest is broken, black or brown residues can be seen inside, and the posterior abdomen is hollow. It is light, crispy, slightly fishy and salty in taste. The best ones are yellow in color, complete, and with little debris in the stomach. Some use only the posterior abdomen, which is called "scorpion tail" or "scorpion tip".

① Anticonvulsant effect

When mice were orally administered 1 gram of anticonvulsant powder (a mixture of equal amounts of whole scorpion and centipede dry powder) per day for 1, 3, and 9 days, it had antagonistic effects on convulsions caused by pentamethyltetrazolium, strychnine, and nicotinic acid. The effect against convulsions caused by strychnine was the most significant, followed by nicotinic acid, pentamethyltetrazolium was the worst, and cocaine had no effect. The whole scorpion and centipede are also effective when applied separately at 1 gram per day, but the effect of the whole scorpion is weaker than that of the centipede.

②Effects on the cardiovascular system

Intravenous injection of whole scorpion extract and decoction can cause a temporary drop in blood pressure in rabbits and dogs (a temporary rise can be seen in a few cases), but it quickly recovers, followed by a gradual and lasting drop in blood pressure that lasts for more than 1 to 3 hours. Administration by oral gavage or intramuscular injection still has a significant and lasting antihypertensive effect, and repeated use does not cause rapid tolerance. The principle of lowering blood pressure is to inhibit the vasomotor center, dilate blood vessels, directly inhibit the heart, and counteract the pressor effect of adrenaline. It has a significant sedative effect on awake animals, but does not make them fall asleep, which may also be related to lowering blood pressure. The sodium scorpionate salt isolated from the whole scorpion produced a temporary drop in blood pressure when injected intravenously into rabbits, but it had an excitatory effect on the isolated frog heart and a constrictive effect on the frog hind limbs and isolated rabbit ear blood vessels.

[Toxicity] The main effect of scorpion venom is to cause respiratory paralysis. The minimum lethal dose for rabbits is 0.07, for mice is 0.5, and for frogs is 0.7 mg/kg. The symptoms of poisoning in rabbits are tonic spasm of limbs, salivation, respiratory arrest, and increased blood pressure. Frogs show fibrous contracture of the limbs, and mice show paralysis of the limbs and respiratory paralysis after the excitement state. Scorpion venom has no hemolytic or coagulation effects. It has an inhibitory effect on the isolated frog heart, a constrictive effect on the blood vessels of the frog's hind limbs, and an excitatory effect on the isolated rabbit intestine and frog bladder.

The efficacy of Scorpion Soup on tetanus in experimental animals: 15 grams of whole scorpion, 12.5 grams of red peony root, 10 grams of rhubarb, and 7.5 grams of licorice are made into 200 ml of decoction, which is Scorpion Soup. Mixing 1-10% scorpion soup with tetanus bacteria for 60-90 minutes has no antibacterial effect, but it has a certain inhibitory effect when mixed into culture medium for cultivation. It has no neutralizing or destructive effect on tetanus toxin. Scorpion soup, whether taken orally or injected subcutaneously, has no therapeutic or preventive effect on experimental tetanus in guinea pigs or mice. No obvious poisoning symptoms were observed when 0.1-1 ml/mouse of scorpion soup was administered orally, subcutaneously or intravenously to mice, and 0.2-5 ml/mouse of guinea pigs was administered orally or subcutaneously to guinea pigs.

The above article has given you a detailed introduction to the therapeutic effects of scorpions. Scorpions have a very miraculous therapeutic effect on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. They can have a calming effect and will not make patients feel that their heartbeats are particularly fast. They can also temporarily reduce their blood pressure significantly.