Scolopendra is a commonly used Chinese medicine in clinic, which has the effects of expelling wind, calming convulsion, attacking toxin and resolving hard mass. Clinically, it is often used to treat apoplexy, epilepsy, tetanus, whooping cough, scrofula, tuberculosis, tumor, sore, tinea, alopecia, hemorrhoid, scald and so on.
Scolopendra is a commonly used Chinese medicine in clinic, which has the effects of expelling wind, calming convulsion, attacking toxin and resolving hard mass. Clinically, it is often used to treat apoplexy, epilepsy, tetanus, whooping cough, scrofula, tuberculosis, tumor, sore, tinea, alopecia, hemorrhoid, scald and so on. Let's talk about the efficacy and function of centipede in detail. It's the mummy of a centipede with less thorns. Location: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Hunan, Henan, Shaanxi and other places. Catch in spring and summer, insert bamboo pieces into the head and tail, straighten and dry.
This medicine is Xin Wen. Toxic. Liver meridian.
Efficacy: calming wind, relieving spasm, attacking toxin, dispersing stagnation, dredging collaterals and relieving pain.
App application
1. Seizure. This product is warm in nature, easy to escape, accessible inside and outside, and has strong ability to search for wind and calm down. Together with scorpion, it is an important drug for calming wind, which is often used to treat spasms and convulsions caused by various reasons, such as Zhisou Powder (empirical prescription); This product is compatible with Scorpio, Uncaria rhynchophylla and Bombyx Batryticatus, and can be used to treat infantile convulsion. Such as Cuofeng Powder (standard of syndrome differentiation and treatment) and Wanjin Powder (Shenghui Formula) for treating acute shock in children, this product is mixed with cinnabar and Calomelas and ground into powder under milk; For tetanus and ankylosis, this product is the main drug, and it is combined with Nanxing and Fangfeng. Such as centipede star wind powder ("Medical Zong Jin Jian"). Appropriate compatibility, this product can also be used for epilepsy, wind-induced meridians, mouth-eye deviation and other diseases.
2. swelling and pain, scrofula and tuberculosis. This product fights poison with poison, and it is pungent and dissipated. It is mixed with realgar and pig bile to make ointment, and it is externally applied with malignant sores and swollen toxins, such as Parsan (Ba Cui Fang), with good effect. This product and tea * * * are fine powders, and can be used for the treatment of tuberculosis of lymph nodes. For example, the new prescription of tuberculosis powder, together with scorpion and Eupolyphaga Seu Steleophaga, is taken orally to treat bone tuberculosis. If this product is baked yellow, ground into fine powder, taken with boiling water, or used together with Coptidis Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei and Glycyrrhrizae Radix, it can also treat snakebite.
3. Rheumatic stubbornness. This product has a good effect of dredging collaterals and relieving pain, similar to scorpion. Therefore, it is often used with wind-dispelling, dampness-removing and collateral-dredging herbs such as Fangfeng, Radix Angelicae Pubescentis and Radix Clematidis to treat rheumatic joint pain, restless wandering and severe pain.
4. intractable headache. This product can dispel wind, dredge collaterals and relieve pain. Can be used for treating intractable headache or headache that cannot be cured for a long time. Usually used with Gastrodia elata, Chuanxiong and Bombyx Batryticatus.
Usage and dosage: decoction, 3 ~ 5g. 0.6 ~ 1g each time. Appropriate amount for external use.
Note that this product is toxic, and the dosage should not be too large. It is not suitable for pregnant women.
Differentiating centipede from scorpion has the functions of calming wind, relieving spasm, detoxifying and resolving hard mass, dredging collaterals and relieving pain, and the two drugs must have synergistic effect. However, the scorpion is flat in nature, and its ability to stop wind and spasm is not as good as that of centipede. Scolopendra is fierce and dry, good at escaping, and has a strong effect of calming wind and relieving spasm. It also has good effects of attacking poison, treating sores, dredging arthralgia and relieving pain.
Ancient book abstracts
1. Shennong Herbal Classic: "What about snake, insect and fish poison? Go to the three worms. "
2. Compendium of Materia Medica: "Infantile convulsion, wind convulsion, umbilical cord spasm, erysipelas, alopecia, scrofula, fecal poisoning, hemorrhoids, snake bite, snake bite."