Snake species-A brief introduction to the five-step snake

Five-step snake alias money White Snake, Silver Ring Snake, Little White Snake, White Snake, Baijie Snake. It belongs to the family Cobra, phylum Vertebrate. The snake is small and round, with the head in the center and the tail in the mouth, shaped like the size of ancient copper coins, hence the name "money Baihua Snake". The snakehead is slightly thicker than the body, oblong and round, dark brown. There is a raised ridge on the back, the whole body consists of black-brown and white fine pieces of the horizontal ring band, dark-brown section band is wide, 45 to 60 nodes, abdomen gray-white or yellow-white, dark-brown node band, light color, slightly fishy. The main producing areas are Caihe, Guankou and Wangcheng in Xishui County. Medicinal silver ring baby snake dry body, sweet and warm taste, into the lung meridian. Function to remove rheumatism, calm shock, attack poison. It mainly treats rheumatic joint soreness, limb paralysis, oblique mouth, eye and nose, scabies, syphilis, malignant tumor, tetanus and so on.

The silver ring snake is the first-class snake with a body length of less than five city inches. But its head has poisonous glands, contains strong neurotoxin, and contains hemolytic and hemagglutination components. There is no hemorrhagic poison. After being bitten by it, if he is not treated actively, he will often die of paralysis within one or two days. Because the medicinal parts are young snakes, they can not breed naturally in large numbers, and adult snake resources need to be well protected.

[applicable area] Hangzhou, Ningbo, Jiaxing, Shaoxing, Wenzhou, Huzhou, Taizhou, Jinhua, Quzhou, Lishui Zhoushan

[applicable season] early January, mid-January, late February, mid-February, late March, mid-March, late April, mid-April, mid-May, mid-June, mid-July, mid-July, mid-August, mid-August, late September, early October. Mid-October, late October, early November, mid-November, early December, early December.