What Are the Benefits of Centipedes?

Centipede is used as a traditional Chinese medicine for treating wind and spasms, clearing meridians and relieving pain, detoxifying and dissolving masses. It can be used for the treatment of hemiplegia, headache, infantile convulsion, tetanus, and liver wind internal movement. Drinking alcohol with centipede can treat bruises and injuries. Some modern studies have shown that extracts from centipede have anti-tumor effects. In addition, centipede also has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, and can treat sore and swelling.

The medicinal properties of centipede are pungent in taste, warm in nature, and poisonous. It enters the liver meridian. Its main functions are dispelling wind, calming convulsions, detoxifying, and dissolving masses. It is used to treat stroke, convulsions, tetanus, pertussis, scrofulosis, tuberculosis, abdominal masses, sore and swelling, wind psoriasis, alopecia areata, hemorrhoids, and burns. In modern clinical practice, it is also used to treat tuberculosis (tuberculous pleurisy, tuberculous pleuritis, pulmonary tuberculosis, disseminated tuberculosis, bone tuberculosis, breast tuberculosis, and cervical lymph node tuberculosis).

The effects of centipede include promoting immunity and relieving bruises and injuries. Its medicinal properties can enhance immunity and provide physical responses. Drinking alcohol with centipede can treat bruises and injuries. For bruises caused by falls, if there is no broken blood and swelling pain, rubbing with centipede alcohol can quickly reduce swelling and pain, and it also has good effects on toxic sores and unknown swelling.

Centipede extracts have a certain effect on animal transplantable tumors. The aqueous extract of this product has different degrees of inhibitory effect on a variety of dermal fungi. In vitro test tube methods show that the aqueous extract, ethanol, and ether extracts of this product do not show direct inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus, Vibrio, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Candida albicans.