Over the past few decades, dozens of novel proteins in this scorpion's venom have been identified, cloned and investigated for clinical applications.

[11] Amongst the sodium channel-specific neurotoxins, there are a number of muscle relaxants, such as makatoxin I[12] and bukatoxin,[13] while BmKAEP[14][15] and BmK IT2[16] have shown anticonvulsant activity in experimental conditions, inhibiting epileptic seizures induced in rats.

BmK AGAP has both analgesic and antitumor properties and recombinant proteins could potentially be used in anticancer treatments.

[17][18] It occasionally appears in packaging from China, with the British National Centre for Reptile Welfare noting that its sting is "medically significant... potentially life threatening but an average adult would just have a really bad day".

[19] O. martensii, especially its tail, has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for many centuries to treat various neuronal problems, such as chronic pain, paralysis, apoplexy and epilepsy.