Buthus martensii

Background

Quanchong È«³æ Xiewei Ыβ Chinese Name (pinyin): Quanxie

Chinese Name  :

Common Name  :Scorpion

Specific Name  : Scorpio

Scientific Name:
Collection  : The drug is collected from the end of spring to the beginning of autumn, remove from soil, boiled with water or salt water until the body stiffened, scooped out, place in a ventilated place and dried in shade.

Description  : The cephalothorax and preabdomen flattened, elongated ellipsoidal, the post-abdomen tail like, shrunken and curved. The body of intact specimen about 6 cm long. The cephalothorax greenish brown, the anterior part arising 1 pair of short and small chelicerae and one pair of long and large pincer like pediplaps in the shape of a crab pincers, dorsal part covered with ladder shape carapace, ventral part bearing 4 pairs of walking legs, each of seven segments with 2 claws on distal end. The pre-abdomen consist of 7 segments, the seventh dark color with 5 ridged spinal lines on dorsal plate. Dorsal side greenish brown, the postal abdomen brownish yellow, 6 segments with longitudinal furrows on each segments, the telson bearing sharp claw like stinger and no spur below the sting. Odor slightly stinking and taste salty.

Identification  :

Processing  : Eliminate foreign matters, wash clean and dry.

Action  : To relieve convulsions; to combt poisons and reduce nodulation, to remove obstructions from the collaterals, and to relieve pain.

Indication  : infantile convulsion; twitching; spasm; apoplectic hemiplegia; tetanus; chronic arthritis; headache or migraine; sores; scrofula

Precautions  :

Dosage  : 2.5 to 4.5 g.

Storage  : Preserve in a dry place, protected from moth.

Evidence or the Use of Buthus martensii in the Treatment of Epilepesy

1st Five Results: pubmed search

Bao-Li Duan, Tian-Yun Chen, Dan-Dan Shi, Chun-Xue You, Chao Jiang
[Site-specific PCR identification of animal species and formula particles of Scorpio].
Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi: 2024, 49(4);942-950
[PubMed:38621901] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Yan-Jun Song, Hao-Chen Zou, Xiang Weng, Jian-Hua Ju
[Research progress on chemical constituents and pharmacological activities of small molecule compounds in scorpions].
Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi: 2024, 49(3);661-670
[PubMed:38621870] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ling Zeng, Cangman Zhang, Mingrong Yang, Jianfeng Sun, Jingguang Lu, Huixia Zhang, Jianfeng Qin, Wei Zhang, Zhihong Jiang
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Toxins (Basel): 2024, 16(3);
[PubMed:38535821] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Huan Liu, Dongxiao Qu, Yunzhu Cao, Haiting Li, Xiaoyu Wu, Yudan Zhu, Jie Tao, Yiming Li, Chunyang Cao
TAT-Modified Martentoxin Displays Intravenous Antiseizure Activities.
ACS Chem Neurosci: 2024, 15(1);205-214
[PubMed:38112732] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Chenhu Qin, Xuhua Yang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Gang Deng, Xin Huang, Zheng Zuo, Fang Sun, Zhijian Cao, Zongyun Chen, Yingliang Wu
Functional Characterization of a New Degradation Peptide BmTX4-P1 from Traditional Chinese Scorpion Medicinal Material.
Toxins (Basel): 2023, 15(5);
[PubMed:37235373] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)