新郑全虫

    全早俗中蝎子，也称“钳蝎”，属于节肢动物。尾部末端有毒钩，能蜇人，躲在夜间活动。干燥体供药用，在重要配方上是一味不可缺少的重要药物。有壮筋骨、祛风、镇痉、止痛之功效，为治惊风抽搐、破作风、半身不遂、头风疼痛、风湿痛之要药。全虫新郑特产，全国知名。新郑全虫成品色微黄，腹内纯净无土，与外县的山蝎（腹中有土背黑）有大区别。新郑居民的老土屋、野地土牙缝，都有出产，而以西南具茨山、郑韩故城产量最丰。



    Xinzheng Scorpion, also called Buthus martensii Karsch, is an arthropoda, whose end of tail has poisonous hook. It is always active and hunts food at night. This insect's dried body is a significant medicine in some important recipe, which has curative effects of strengthening physique, relieving rheumatic pains, quitting spasm and pains and can cure disease of infantile convulsions, spasm, tetanus, hemiplegia, headache, rheumatalgia, etc.
      
    Scorpion is a specialty in Xinzheng City which is famous in the whole country. The finished products are in light yellow color, pure and clean in their stomachs, which is the biggest difference with other kinds of scorpions. It is produced in cracks in old buildings or wild lands, while, the most ones are produced in Juci Mountain and Zhenghan Old City.