In today's view, the value of snakes is not only for viewing or destroying pests, but people also use snakes to make wine or use snakes as medicine to help people condition their bodies. Five Snakes Wine, Shedan Chuanbei Liquid, Shedan Chuanbei Loquat Cream, etc. Today, the editor will introduce a kind of snake that can be used as medicine - Sanggen Snake.

I. Basic information

[Chinese name]Sanggen snake

[Another name] red-chain snake, fire red chain, red-spotted snake

【binary name】Lycodon rufozonatus

【Kingdom】Animal Kingdom

【Domain】Chordates

【Subphylum】Chordates Door

[Class] Reptiles

[Order] Snake

[Suborder] Neoserpentine

[Family] Tour Snake family

[Subfamily] Viperidae

[Genus] Chain Snake

[Species] Red Chain Snake

II. Morphological characteristics

Sanggen snake body length can reach 1.2 meters, its head is slightly flat, and its shape is oval. The snout scales of the mulberry snake are higher and can be seen from the back of the snake. It has small nasal scales, short forehead scales, and large and long scales on top of its head. The scales on its head are black with distinct red edges. The back of the head of the Sanggen snake has a ya-shaped pattern, its abdomen is white, and there are gray-black dots or all gray-black under the tail.

III. Geographical distribution

The mulberry snake is widely distributed, mainly in Beijing, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan, etc. land.

IV. Habitat

The mulberry snake inhabits fields, riversides, hills, villages and areas near water sources, and often appears around residential areas , the suburbs around the city and gardens in the city are more common. Mulberry snake nests in tree caves, grave caves, underground caves or under stone mounds and tiles, and its traces are often found in abandoned earthen kilns in the wild.

V. Living habits

Sanggen snakes are nocturnal snakes, usually appearing in the evening, and the activities begin frequently after ten o'clock in the evening. They hide in cracks in walls, stones, and caves during the day. When encountering enemies or danger, they will first bury their heads deeply under their bodies, and then wag their tails to warn each other. If the warning is invalid, they will bend into an S shape to attack. . Their temperament is relatively mild, they will not take the initiative to attack people, they are lazy and inactive, and they crawl slowly. However, when it is frightened or threatened, the action of the sangen snake will become agile, and it will bite when caught.

6. Pharmacological effects

Sanggen snake can be used as medicine, and its specific effects after being used as medicine are:

1. Anti-inflammatory effect

Sanggen snake water and alcohol extract have obvious anti-inflammatory effects. Gavage with 20g/kg, 10g/kg alcohol and water extract can significantly inhibit the paw swelling of egg white and agar-induced rats.

2. analgesic effect

The water and alcohol extracts of mulberry root snake snake, in heat, electricity, chemical (antimony potassium tartrate) It can be proved that it has obvious analgesic effect under the stimulation of chemical stimulation, and the analgesic effect of chemical stimulation is particularly significant, and the analgesic effect of thermal stimulation is weak.

3. Sedative and hypnotic effects

Gavage of the alcohol extract of mulberry root snake can inhibit the spontaneous activity of mice and prolong the Sleep time, and even play a role in direct hypnosis.

Put the corpse of the mulberry snake on the tile, burn it with pine wood, and then grind it into fine powder, sieve it for use, and spread the fine powder on the ulcer wound. Gauze bandage, can cure.

Seeing now, I believe everyone has a better understanding of the mulberry snake. If you want to know more about snakes, please continue to pay attention to this site~