Snake slough
(Ben Jing)
[synonyms] longziyi, shefu, longzichanyi, Gongpi (the classic), Longpi, longchanyi, Shejin, shefu (Wupu materia medica), Shepi (Lei Gong Paozhi Lun), longzipi (BIE Lu), sheecdysis (on medicinal properties), snake shell, shetui (compendium), longyi (classified herbal medicine), Qinglongyi (Zhejiang traditional Chinese medicine manual), changchongpi (Henan traditional Chinese medicine manual) The book of traditional Chinese medicine, Bai longyi.
[source] it is the skin membrane from the slough of many snakes, such as Elaphe nigra, Elaphe nigra, Elaphe nigricans, Elaphe cinnabarinus and so on.
[animal morphology] ① black browed snake, see "yellow chin snake" for details.
② Brocade snake
The total length can reach 1.8 meters. The head is slightly larger than the neck. The snout scale is wider than the height, and can be seen from the back. The scales between the nose are slightly equal in length and width. The width of forehead scale is larger than the length, and the suture line between two scales is longer than that between nose scales. Frontal scales anterior slightly wider than posterior. The scales on the top of the skull are broad. The anterior scale is narrow and long, the posterior scale is broad, and the nostril is large, which lies between the two scales and slightly backward. 2 scales, sometimes 3, rarely 1. There are 2 scales behind eyes. Anterior temporal scales 2, long and narrow; occasionally 3. The posterior temporal scales are 3, short and wide. There are 8 scales on the upper lip, and the fourth and fifth ones are in the eye; the seventh one is the largest. Buccal scales 1, occasionally 2. 10 scales of lower lip. The first 5 pieces are connected with the anterior chin scale. The scale of anterior chin is larger than that of posterior chin. There are 23-23-19 rows of scales on the body, and all of them have edges except the first and second row of scales. There are 215-226 abdominal scales, 2 anal scales and 84-101 pairs of infracaudal scales. The scales on the back and head of the body are black all around and yellow in the center. There are about 30 obvious yellow transverse and oblique stripes in the front half of the body, which disappear in the back half of the body and only have yellow spots in the center of the scales. The abdomen is yellow with black stripes.
It lives in high mountains and plains. Sexual activity, quick action. They feed on other snakes, even their own snakes. They also eat birds' eggs and mice. It's smelly and nontoxic. It is distributed in Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, etc.
③ Black tip snake, see "black snake" for details.
④ Red chain snake, see "red chain snake" for details.
[collection] it can be collected all year round, but the most is from March to April. Shake off the sediment and dry in the sun or air.
[herbal medicine] the dry ecdysis is a translucent cylindrical membrane, flat or slightly shrunk or broken under normal pressure. The intact one is more than 1 meter long. Dorsal silver gray, glossy with rhombic or elliptic translucent scales. The abdomen is milky white or slightly yellow, and the scales are rectangular and arranged in tile like arrangement. It's soft and easy to break. It feels smooth when stroked. It is slightly fishy, light or salty. The color is white, the skin is thin, the strip is long, thick, neat and unbroken, and there is no sediment impurity.
It is mainly produced in Zhejiang, Guangxi, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Fujian, Anhui, Shaanxi, Yunnan and other places.
[chemical composition] there is bone collagen in snake slough.
[processing] wash with licorice, dry in the sun, spray with yellow rice wine, and stir fry until yellow. (100 Jin for each snake molt, 5 jin for wine)
① Ben Jing: "fire is good. "
② "Lei Gong Pao Zhi Lun:" if you want to use it, you should dig a pit under the house first, which can be one foot and two inches deep. You should put the snake skin in the middle for a night. When it comes out, you should soak it in vinegar for a while, and then dry it on the fire. "
③ "The compendium of compendium" says: "people use snake to slough, first wash it with Gleditsia water, then wrap it around bamboo, or soak it with wine, vinegar, or honey, then burn it yellow. Or burning, or salt mud solid calcination, each with the method. "
[flavor] sweet, salty, flat, poisonous.
① Ben Jing: "Wei Wei, Ping. "
② Bielu: "sweet, nontoxic. "
③ "On medicinal properties": "toxic. "
[Guijing] 1. In Bencao Jingshu: "into the liver. "
② According to Bencao Zaixin, "it enters the liver and spleen meridians. "
Functions and indications: dispelling wind, calming convulsion, removing haze, detumescence and killing insects. It is used to treat infantile convulsion, sore throat and mouth, wooden tongue with heavy tongue, eyes with internal obstruction, rash, carbuncle, rash, mumps, hemorrhoids and scabies.
① "Ben Jing": "it is mainly for children with convulsion and epilepsy, epilepsy, cold and heat, intestinal hemorrhoids, insect and snake epilepsy. "
② Bielu: "the master shakes his head with his tongue, the five evils of the adult, his speech is secluded, his sore, his vomit cough, and his eyes are bright. "
③ "Treatise on medicinal properties": "treat throat obstruction. "
④ Rihuazi materia medica: "stop vomiting.". Treatment of children with palpitation, disobedience, birth, ulcer, vitiligo. "
⑤ "Medicine mind method": "remove Yimo. "
⑥ The Compendium: "dispel wind, kill insects. Burn powder and take it, cure women's blowing milk, adult's laryngopathy, remove the eyesight, eliminate the wooden tongue, apply to children's heavy tongue, heavy palate, tight lips, relieve cranium, face sores, lunar eclipse, tianpao sores, adult's swelling, leakage sores, swelling and poison, boil soup to wash all kinds of evil insect injuries. "
⑦ Yilin zuanyao: "it can slow down the liver, protect the heart, remove toxic heat and rheumatism. "
⑧ Classification of herbal medicine: "treating eye distention, head wind, calcining, researching and applying sores, decoction fire injury, dampness sores and dry water, treating sores.". "
[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Qian; or powder. External use: decocting soup washing or grinding powder application.
[should avoid] pregnant women should not take it.
① "Yaodui": "Weici stone. "
② "Compendium": "pregnant women should not use it. "
③ "The classic of Materia Medica" says: "children's convulsion and epilepsy is not caused by external evil, but by liver and heart deficiency. "
[prescription selection] ① treatment of infantile wind epilepsy and convulsion fever: snake moulting three inches (fried), asarum (remove seedling leaves, file), Uncaria (file), astragalus (file), licorice (fried) each half two, rhubarb (steamed three degrees, file, baked) one or two, four cicada (fried, remove wing, head, foot). Coarse ramming and sieving. Take one coin dagger for each serving, 8% water, fry until 4%, remove the residue, add a little bezoar, mix well, take warm after eating. (snake slough soup in Shengji Zonglu)
② Treatment of wind around the throat, pharynx such as bundle, gas obstruction: snake slough (Zhihuang), angelica, etc. At the end of the day, warm wine is mixed with a dagger, and the more you vomit. (medical standards)
③ Treatment of infantile laryngitis swelling and pain: snake slough burn powder, milk take a money dagger. (heart mirror of food medicine)
④ Treat children with hematemesis and tongue: burn snake molting powder, take it with milk. (Qian Jin Fang)
⑤ Treatment of children with heavy palate broken swelling and pain, mouth salivation: snake molting burn ash, research order fine, with a little Fu. (Sheng Hui Fang)
⑥ Treatment of pediatric aphthous ulcer: snake slough, water stains make wet soft, wipe the mouth sore. (Sheng Ji Zong Lu)
⑦ Treatment of cataract: a snake slough, borneol two points, Yinzhu one point. First, the snake molted to burn, and then with other drugs to study the fine powder. Three times a day, a little in the eye each time. (selected materials of new medical treatment of Chinese herbal medicine, Inner Mongolia)
⑧ Cure pox poison eye Yi: snake slough two money (for the end), gualouren five money (Research rotten). With a batch of sheep liver open, medicine at the end of two money, tight line, cooked with rice hogwash, frequency and children's food. (shetusan, on prescriptions for infantile pox and rash)
⑨ Treatment of macular rash into the eye, pannus invasion into the eyes into beads: one or two Mabo, two or seven Gleditsia seed, snake back skin (all) one. Put it into a small pot, seal it with mud and burn it. Do not smoke. Keep it. Grind it to the end. Warm water to adjust a money, after eating. (shetusan, treatise on emergency preparation for children's macular rash)
⑩ Treatment of carbuncle and gangrene? No pus: snake slough burn ash fine research, with vinegar on the swelling, dry is easy. It can also be pasted with snake skin only. (Sheng Ji Zong Lu)
(11) to cure the pain and swelling caused by blowing milk: the snake sloughs one foot and seven inches, burns to make it black, studies it carefully, takes a good wine, takes it slightly warm, and takes it even more effectively. (milk producing prescription)
(12) treatment of sores: a snake molting as big as a chicken, with four liters of water, boil three or four times, remove the residue and take it. Second, burn snake molting ash, and apply it with chicken seed. (Qian Jin Fang)
Treatment of swelling: snake molting half (white), exposed hive half, disorderly hair as big as a chicken (boy's wonderful). On the three flavors, file in the iron burning ash, fine grinding for powder. Each take two money dagger, hollow rice drink, cover sweating, more service. (snake slough powder in Shengji Zonglu)
(14) after the treatment, there are 21 bees, 7.5% snakes and 2 centipedes. Use four liang of sesame oil, put the first three flavors into the oil, use the civil and military fire to dry up, remove the dregs, put in two liang of set powder, use seven mulberry branches as thick as chaff, stir them in a hurry and wait for the cold, then use paper to spread the affected area for seven days and nights. (shemougao in yizongjinjian)
Treatment of otitis media: snake slough 97%, spider 2%, borneol 1%. Grind fine powder and store in bottle. First, wash the pus in the ear and blow in the powder once a day. (prescription collection of new Chinese herbal medicine in Guangxi)
(16) treatment of breast swelling and pain: snake slough, antler and dewhive. Co calcination and storage. Take yellow rice wine. Take it twice a day for one dollar each time. (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine)
There is more than one and a half yuan for snakeskin, gallnut and keel, and five yuan for Dipsacus. On for the end, into a little musk, saliva adjust application. (snake slough powder in Danxi Xinfa)
(18) treatment of tinea: burn a snake, take wine. (Qian Jin Fang)
(19) the treatment of urination: the whole snake slough. Burning, storage and research. Take warm wine. (compendium)
Treatment of chyluria: longyi is one foot in the city. Put on the tile to bake, grind fine powder. Add appropriate amount of brown sugar, one dose a day. (Xuzhou, selection of new medical therapies based on single prescription)
(21) pinworm treatment: snake slough two money (baked yellow), borneol one point. We studied the details together. Wipe anus before going to bed. (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine)
(22) treatment of infantile skull: Boil snake molting, end of, and pig cheek car marrow, apply on the top, three or four degrees a day. (Qian Jin Fang)
[clinical application] ① treatment of cerebral cysticercosis
Grind the snake molt into fine powder, take it with boiling water, 1 money each time, twice a day. At the same time, take Euphorbia Decoction (betel nut 2 liang, Euphorbia 1 money, papaya 6 money, Uncaria 4 money, dizziness plus chrysanthemum 4 money, hepatitis to betel nut plus thunder pill 6 money, add water 500 ml, decoct into 150 ml, twice a day, 50 ml each time, can take about 30 doses). According to the observation of more than 1000 cases in the past 10 years, most of them were treated 3-4 days after treatment
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Snake slough