Introduction to the manufacturing method of dried snake

The dried snake of traditional Chinese medicine is a dry body made by removing intestines and other internal organs after laparotomy.

The processing method of dried adult snakes is as follows: after being caught by a medicinal snake, it is killed or burned to death in boiling water, then step on the head and neck of the snake with its feet, hold the tail of the snake in one hand, and cut the skin from the head and neck with small round head scissors in the other hand, separate the snake skin from the snake meat by the neck, cut the snake skin, and pull the skin down to the anus to cut the snake skin. The snake meat takes the head as the center and rolls into a disc shape, and its tail is inserted into the last circle, and the sharpened bamboo stick is used as a "ten" shape to insert into the snake body, then dry with firewood, often turn over and do not scorch, fumigate for 5 to 60 minutes, then slowly bake and dry with a gentle fire. The quality of finished dried snake is light in color, no blood, no mildew and moth, fishy but not smelly, no scorched marks by fire, complete head and tail, large and thick meat, bright pattern. Agkistrodon acutus is often processed into dried snakes and used in medicine.

Dried Agkistrodon halys is generally used for powder research or wine dipping. The method of making dried Agkistrodon halys is to burn the snake to death in boiling water, remove the internal organs by laparotomy, curl into a cake, leave the skin or take peeling and break the ribs near the spine, spread out and flatten the snake, and then dry it with charcoal fire to prevent burning. when baked to 5: 60, slowly bake until dry.

The White Flower Snake is the young snake trunk of the silver ring snake, which is made from the visceral drying of the young silver ring snake. The specification of its processing is: silver ring snake baby snakes shed their skin for the first time 7-15 days after hatching, with the same size as chopsticks and a length of about 30 centimeters. It is most suitable to kill and process the white flower snake. To kill silver ring snakes, young snakes are generally killed by clamp method. The small snakes are first immersed in alcohol and then processed. When catching baby snakes, try not to hurt the snake as much as possible to keep the snake in good condition. The specific method is to clamp the baby snake's head with forceps and cut it in a straight line from the neck to the anus with small scissors. The more neat the knife edge is, the better. Then clean up the internal organs and roll them into a snake plate immediately. Then take the head as the center, bend the snake body into a disc shape, put the snake's tail into the mouth, and then use four pins to pass through the snake body from the outside to the inside to form a snake plate. When the number of small white snake processing is small, the snake basin can be slowly baked on charcoal, can not be baked with open fire, can not let fire smoke contact and fumigation snake body, so as to avoid the smell of fire smoke. If the processing quantity is large, use the oven or oven, keep the temperature of the oven and oven at about 50 ℃. It is appropriate to dry the snake plate until thoroughly dry, prevent overheating and crisp baking, and keep the snake plate neat in shape and free of impurities.

After drying the dried snake, especially the money White Snake, each plate should be wrapped in clean white paper and placed in a carton. The dried snake is most prone to moth, mildew and discoloration. The way to prevent moth is to fumigate 0.5 kg of sulfur for every 5 kg of dried snake. Sell it in time, and if you need to store it for a period of time, you can put the dried snake into a clay jar for storage.