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Agkistrodon
Snake (bai hua she)
Agkistrodon
acutus
Properties:
Sweet and salty in flavour, warm in nature, being
poisonous, it acts on liver channel. The action may pass
through exterior to interior, promoting the bone and
expelling the wind, clearing the channels to arrest
convulsion. It is suitable for rheumatic arthralgia,
headache due to latent wind, tetanus, leprosy, intractable
tinea, etc.
Effects:
Expelling the wind and clearing channel, arresting the
wind and convulsion.
Indications:
1.
For rheumatic arthralgia, muscle spasm, it is used
in combination with pubescent angelica root (Radix
Angelicae pubescentis), Chinese angelica root (Radix
Angelicae sinensis) and acanthopanax bark ( Cortex
Acanthopanacis radicis), soaking in wine for drinking; for
aphonia caused by apoplexy or hemiplagia, it is used
together with astragalus root ( Radix Astragali seu
Hedysari), and Chinese angelica root to tonify the Qi and
blood, expel the wind and clear channels.
2.
For opisthotonus caused by tetanus, it is often
used together with scorpion (Scorpio), gastrodia tuber (
Rhizoma Gastrodiae) and Arisaema consanguineum Schott; for
infantile convulsion caused by high fever, it is used in
combination with cow bezoare (Calculus Bovis) and Arisaema
Bilis.
In addition, it is suitable
for headache caused by latent wind, chronic infantile
convulsion due to insufficiency of spleen, leprosy and
intractable tinea.
Dosage and
Administration: 3-10g in
decoction; 0.5-1g in powder. One whole snake for
decoction; 0.5-1g for powder.
Zaocys
Dhumnades (Cantor)
It
belongs to Calubridae (Family Zaocys). This drug is the whole
snake after removal of its viscera. Sweet in flavour,
neutral in nature, and nonpoisonous, its effects are
similar to those of Agkistrodon snake but milder. The
usual dosage is 5-10g, 2-3g in powder.
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