The efficacy and role of the short-tailed pit viper is still very large. The venom of the short-tailed pit viper is its secret chemical weapon for predation, digestion and self-defense, and it is also a clinically good analgesic and hemostatic drug. The analgesic effect of short-tailed pit viper venom is slow but long-lasting, with a wide range of safety, and long-term application will not become addictive.

The venom of short-tailed pit viper on trigeminal neuralgia and sciatica , intercostal neuralgia and starvation cancer swelling and pain and leprosy neuralgia and other diseases have a significant analgesic effect, and also have a good effect on hemophilia, uterine bleeding, etc.