The general chemical composition of snake venom contains hemorrhagic poison, various enzymes and a small amount of neurotoxin. From the observation of clinical effect, bamboo shavings belong to blood-activating poison. After being bitten, the wound will have a severe burning sensation and the swelling will develop rapidly. Its typical feature is that bloody blisters are more common and appear earlier, with fewer general symptoms.

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Bambusa is not easy to find because it is green and likes to live in plants. People will often be bitten if they touch or approach the snake by mistake when passing through its habitat. This kind of snake is one of the main snake species in Fujian, Taiwan Province and Guangdong because it often entangles in trees and often bites people's head and neck.

Life-threatening cases after being bitten by this snake are extremely rare, but because of its wide distribution and many cases, it is very harmful to people. Adding this kind of snake to frogs and lizards is not good for agriculture.

The head and back are small scales; Only the orbital scale is large, and the orbital scale of the friend on the left has 9- 15 small scales continuously; The nasal scales are only slightly larger than their adjacent scales, and there are 1-4 scales between the left and right nasal scales. The nasal scales are completely separated from the first upper lip scales by scale grooves, and the nasal scales are separated from the anterior scales of buccal fossa by 1-3 small scales, which are tangent to each other. 8- 12 scales of upper lip; 10- 14 scale of lower lip.

The dorsal scale is at the neck of line 2 1-23, and a few lines only have line 19, even lines 22, 24 and 25; The trunk has 2 1 lines, the outermost 1-3 lines on both sides are smooth, and the rest are ridged; The lines in front of the anus are all 15, and some are 12 or 13. Abdominal scale male 154- 170, female154-172; 60-75 males and 43-73 females.