Centipede is a commonly used medicinal material, which is warm, pungent and toxic.
Efficacy: centipede has a good heat-clearing and detoxicating effect, similar to honeysuckle, forsythia and dandelion. Scolopendra can not only clear away heat and toxic materials, but also promote blood circulation to remove blood stasis and dredge collaterals.
Scolopendra can also detoxify and eliminate sores, and can be widely used for dermatoses, such as sores, swollen sores, tuberculosis, tinea, alopecia, etc.
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physiological property
This product is a flat strip with a length of 9 ~ 15 cm and a width of 0.5 ~ 1 cm. It consists of head and trunk, and has 22 links. The head is dark red or reddish brown, slightly shiny, covered with a head plate, nearly round, with a slightly protruding front end, a pair of jaws attached to both sides, and a pair of antennae on both sides of the front end.
The first backboard on the trunk is the same color as the head board, and the other 20 backboards are brown-green or dark green and shiny. From the fourth rebound to the twentieth rebound, there are always two longitudinal grooves. The abdomen is yellowish or brownish yellow and shriveled; From the second section, there are a pair of steps on both sides of each section; The feet are yellow or reddish brown, occasionally yellow and white, hooked, and the last pair of feet are tail-shaped, so they are also called tail feet, which are easy to fall off. Fragile, with cracks in the section. The smell is slightly fishy, with a particularly pungent smell, pungent and slightly salty.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-centipede