Little Multibanded Krait
Bungarus Parvus
Jin Qian Bai Hua She

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Sweet; salty; warm; toxic

Part(s) used

Potential toxicity/side effects

Toxic

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

Treatment of rheumatism, especially the intractable cases and those with wandering arthralgia, numbness of the extremities and muscular spasm, also for apoplexy complicated by distortion of face and hemiplegia. treatment of infantile convulsion, tetanus and convulsion after apoplexy. treatment of itching induced by scabies, tinea infection and urticaria. treatment of leprosy, scrofula, and aevere skin infections.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

1. analgesic, sedative. 2. hypotensive owing to its vasodilative effect.