The original animal, Black-Tail Snake (Zaocys dhumnades (Cantor)), is distributed in East China, South China, Southwest China, Hunan, Hubei, Shanxi, Hebei and other places. Medicinal materials are produced in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hubei, Anhui, Sichuan and other places. Caught between April and November. After catching, the snake is beaten to death, disembowelled and its internal organs are removed, rolled into a round shape, smoked and dried with firewood, turned over frequently while smoking, until the surface turns slightly black, and then dried in the sun or on a kang. The best ones are those with complete head and tail, dark brown outer skin, yellowish white inside, ridged spine, and solid body.

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sweet and salty, neutral.

• Yaoxing Lun: "sweet, neutral, slightly toxic."
• Kaibao Bencao: "nontoxic."
• Yuqiu Yaojie : "Salty, neutral."
• Leigong Paozhi Yaoxing Jie: "Act on lung and spleen channels."

[Efficacy]

dispelling wind, unblocking collaterals, calming panic.

[Indications]

Treat wind-dampness, obstinate impediment, numbness of skin, bones and joints, subcutaneous node, hemiplegia, rubella, leprosy, fright epilepsy, tetanus, poliomyelitis.

1. With little multibanded krait, expelling wind and dredging collaterals, it can relieve convulsions and relieve spasm, combine hardness and softness, and is effective for wind-cold-dampness impediment, fright epilepsy convulsion and other diseases.
2. With Saposhnikovia Root, it is most effective against wind-cold-dampness impediment.
3. With Gastrodia Tuber, dispelling wind can relieve both shock and shock, and the power is even stronger. It can be used for infantile convulsion, head wind, wind epilepsy and other diseases.

[Documentation]

1. From Yaoxing Lun.
2. Kaibao Bencao: "Black-Tail Snake, with three ribs on its back, black as paint, good nature, not eating things. There is a black-tailed snake in Jiangdong, which can wrap around things. Until death, it is like this. Born in Shangluoshan. "
3. Bencao Tujing: "Black-Tail Snake, found in Qizhou and Huangzhou mountains today. The flower scent can be smelled in the reed bushes, and it can also be inhaled by the south wind. It is the most difficult to collect, and more can be obtained from the reed branches. When it dies, the eyes will not sink. It is said that the weight is three to one or two points, and the thick ones are turned. "Heavier, less strength."
4. materia medica 行义: "Black-Tail Snake, with a long and slender tail, the best one can wear a small copper coin of a hundred coins. The one with a body length of more than ten feet." This snake has the most medicinal uses. The Black-Tail Snake has a high spine and is known as the sword-spine black tip. "
5. Gangmu: "There are two types of Black-Tail Snake. , the one with a sword ridge and a thin tail is the best; the one with a long sword ridge and a thick tail tip is called the wind-tip snake, which can also cure wind and has weak power."

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[Usage and Dosage]

Oral administration: decoction, 1.5 to 4 yuan; soaked in wine or roasted and ground into powder into pills or powder. External use: burn ashes for application.

[Precaution]

It should not be used by those with blood deficiency producing wind. Benjing Fengyuan: "Don't mess with iron weapons."

[Modern Pharmacology]

Contains collagen, protein, fat, etc.