14/07/2022
Scolopendra subspinipes multidens
Medicinal and economic value of centipede
1. Modern pharmacological studies have shown that centipedes contain two bee venom-like components with high therapeutic value, namely histamine-like substances and hemolytic proteins, as well as fatty oils, cholesterol, formic acid and other active substances, which can also be isolated. S-hydroxylysine, glycine, alanine, glutamic acid and other amino acid components. Therefore, the medicinal value is very high.
2. Centipede is acrid and warm in nature, poisonous, and has various effects such as expelling wind, relieving spasm, attacking poison, dispersing knot, dredging collaterals, relieving pain, killing insects, reducing swelling, detoxifying blister, anti-tumor and anti-fungal. It can treat a variety of diseases such as stroke, migraine, convulsions, tetanus, whooping cough, scrofula, tuberculosis, crux, tumor, sore, swollen poison, rheumatism, snakebite, hemorrhoids, etc. one.
3. Centipede has high medicinal value and economic value. As a traditional Chinese medicine, centipedes were mostly caught in the wild in the past. In recent years, with the intensification of environmental pollution, people's indiscriminate fishing and the continuous expansion of the scope of application, the wild centipede resources are becoming more and more depleted, and the supply of centipedes appears to be very short. Therefore, Breeding centipedes is a good way to get rich.