Crispy snake

Crispy snake

(collection of compendium)

[synonyms] Golden Snake (materia medica Collection), Dixian, scorpion snake (lingbiaoyi), silver snake (Kaibao materia medica), Jinxing earth eel (materia medica tujing), Jinxing eel (Shengji Zonglu), slice snake (dianlue), snake lizard, barefoot lizard (zoology Dictionary), broken snake (traditional Chinese medicine morphological experience identification).

[source] it is the whole body of Eremias cristatus.

[animal morphology] crispy snake lizard

It looks like a snake, with a total length of about 40 cm, and the elderly can reach more than 60 cm. The whole body is covered with tile like scales, and there is a longitudinal groove from the neck to the anus on both sides of the body. The limbs degenerate, only the limb band remains. There are large scales on the back of the head, and the scales on the cheek are similar in size; the snout end is blunt, and there are 2 scales between the snout scale and the single forehead scale; the eyes are small, long in shape, with active eyelids, small earholes, and almost as large as the nostrils. The dorsal scales are 14-16 rows, the central ones are 8-10 rows with edges, which are connected to form obvious longitudinal straight edges and extend to the tail; the ventral scales are 10 rows, smooth; the tail is very long, about 2 times of the body length; the tail is easy to break and can regenerate after breaking. Scales ventral to tail angulate. The color of the female's back is generally brown, the color of the head is deep, and the color of the two sides of the body and tail is purple. The more outward the color is, the lighter the color is, and the color reaches to the tail; the color of the abdomen is light. The male and the young have black spots or blue transverse spots.

They live in bamboo forest and grass, live in caves, build nests and hibernate in winter, and feed on snails and earthworms. They lay eggs from August to September. Distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places.

The shape of Yunnan snake lizard is similar to that of the above species, and the main feature is that there are three scales between the snout scale and the single forehead scale. It is equally used as medicine.

[collection] in spring and autumn, they are caught and drunk to death, or put in a pot to die on a low-level fire Kang. Then they are coiled into a circle, stuck with bamboo sticks, and dried on a low-level fire Kang.

[medicinal materials] most of the dried crispy snakes have been circled, with a diameter of about 6-10 cm. Abaxial surface of snake brownish yellow or brown, glossy; scales inconspicuous. It has a checkered pattern and a black horizontal pattern: the ventral surface is yellowish white, with traces left by the clamping of thin strips, and there is a concave groove on the ventral side. The head is triangular, the tail is thin and pointed, or short. It's light, crisp and slightly fishy. The big one is short and thick with dark color; the small one is long and thin with sharp tail and light color on the back. It's better to be smooth, no broken, smelly and glossy.

Produced in Sichuan, Yunnan and other places.

[processing] decapitation, sectioning and baking.

[flavor] salty, flat.

① "Materia medica collection": "taste salty, half. "

② Kaibao materia medica: "non toxic. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it has a flat nature, a pungent and salty taste, and a little poison. "

[Guijing] Sichuan records of traditional Chinese medicine: "entering the liver, spleen and kidney. "

Functions and indications: dispersing blood stasis, dispelling wind, detumescence and detoxification. It is used to treat falls, injuries, leprosy, carbuncle, swelling and poison.

① "Kaibao Materia Medica": "Jiesheng Jindu. For people who are poisoned by golden medicine, take four inches of Golden Snake, roast it to make it yellow, drink it with boiling juice, and take it frequently, with the degree of Huang. Silver Snake is used to detoxify silver. "

② "Ben Cao Tu Jing" can relieve many poisons, stop diarrhea and pathogenic heat. "

③ The compendium of Medical Sciences: "treating dysentery for a long time. "

④ Dian Lue: "for the treatment of gangrene, the head should be used above the waist, and the tail should be used below the waist; and for the treatment of leprosy and dysentery. "

⑤ A journey to Yunnan and Guizhou. "

⑥ "Gangmu Shiyi": "meat boil cream, hoop carbuncle, to wind Pandora. Its bone vinegar grinding, swelling around the poison. "

⑦ "Traditional Chinese medicine shape and sex experience identification method": "treatment of joint pain, neuralgia, sores, swelling and ulcers. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-3 yuan; soak in wine or powder. External use: Boil cream.

[taboo] Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "no rheumatism, blood stasis or pregnant women should not use it. "

[prescription selection] ① treatment of falls and fractures: Crispy snake, frankincense, myrrh and natural copper. At the end of the study. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Treatment of leprosy: Crispy snake, dry toad, scorpion, Sophora flavescens, Xanthium sibiricum, millet. Wine making clothes. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

③ Treatment of dysentery: Jinxing eel (vinegar), alum, lead Dan each half two. The first three flavors are mashed into powder. Every three money dagger, rice drink, before eating. (Shengji Zonglu Jinxing eel powder)

Chinese PinYin : Cui She