Swallowing geckos raw is a wrong use and has no therapeutic effect. Gecko is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, the correct use is to decoct the soup or powder to be taken internally, or into the pill, bulk and so on.
Gecko is an animal-based traditional Chinese medicine, cold in nature, salty in taste, and belongs to the liver meridian. It is effective in dispelling wind, invigorating collaterals and dispersing knots, and is used in the treatment of limb paralysis, carbuncle sores, wind pain in all joints (when blood qi is weakened and wind-cold enters the joints), eclampsia, plague wind (i.e., leprosy), and scrofula (cervical lymph node tuberculosis), and other diseases.
Gecko’s adverse reactions and contraindications are not yet clear; attention to the deficiency of yin and blood, fluid injury constipation should be used with caution, pregnant women should be used with caution. The main use of gecko is powdered or decoction soup internal use, can also be soaked in wine or into the pill, bulk.
From the efficacy, role and use of gecko, there is no clinical use of gecko swallowed raw, do not mutilate animals; and gecko has a small poison, swallowed raw is prone to adverse reactions.
Drugs should be taken under the guidance of a physician, do not self-medication, to avoid causing adverse consequences.