Alumen
Alias: raw alum, alum, snow alum, mica alum
Contraindications: People with yin deficiency and weak stomach, no dampness and heat, patients with acute enteritis and dysentery, and those with weak body constitution The weak and pregnant women should not consume it.
Suitable people: Suitable for patients with schizophrenia, wind-phlegm chronic diseases, stroke with phlegm, aphonia, hysteria and other phlegm and saliva blocking the heart orifices; gastric and duodenal ulcers, chronic enteritis, It is also suitable for patients with infectious hepatitis, tuberculosis, hemoptysis and other diseases.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that alum has the effects of astringing, detoxifying and killing insects, drying dampness and relieving itching, stopping bleeding and diarrhea, clearing away heat and eliminating phlegm. Research in recent years has confirmed that alum also has antibacterial and anti-trichomoniasis vaginal effects. Some traditional Chinese medicine practitioners use alum to treat diseases such as hyperlipidemia, duodenal ulcer, tuberculosis and hemoptysis.
The efficacy and role of alum
Treat epilepsy, laryngitis, excessive salivation, hepatitis, jaundice, yellow swelling, mouth and tongue sores, sores, hemorrhoids and scabies, water, Fire and insect wounds, gastric and duodenal ulcers, uterine prolapse, leucorrhea, diarrhea, and epistaxis.
The main functions of alum are: hemostasis, detoxification, insecticide, phlegm elimination, dampness relief, and diarrhea.
1. "Treatise on the Properties of Medicine": It can treat rat leakage, scrofula, epistaxis, sore nose, produce pharyngeal fluid, and treat acute laryngitis.
2 "Introduction to Medicine": Treats swollen and pus-filled ears, red eyes, nebula, palpitations, sores in the mouth and tongue, swollen, painful and bleeding teeth, long-term broken bones, acute throat and wind paralysis, heart and lung disease Tired of heat, wind and salivation, causing thirst and diarrhea.
3. "Bielu": Remove the heat in the bone marrow and remove polyps in the nose.
It also treats poisonous wounds caused by snakes, scorpions, vicious dogs, wall mirrors, donkey saliva, and horse sweat.
4. "Outline": spit out phlegm and drink phosphorus, dry dampness and detoxify, relieve salivation, stop bleeding and relieve pain, corrode bad meat, produce good meat, treat carbuncle, boils, malignant sores, epilepsy, and jaundice , constipation, various diseases of mouth, teeth and eyes, injuries from tigers, dogs, snakes, scorpions and insects.
5. "Compendium of Materia Medica": If the fire dries up and turns into powder, the ingrown nail will stick to it, and the blood will bleed between the teeth like a nosebleed, the sticking will heal.
6. "Materia Medica Mengquan": constipation, diarrhea, toothache due to stuffing, washing out anal and intestinal astringency.
Apply to abscesses to collect water.
7. "Yilin Compilation Essentials": Use it raw to detoxify, and use it calcined to produce muscle and remove water.
8 "Herbal Classic": Mainly used for diarrhea due to cold and heat, white stool, vaginal erosion and malignant sores, eye pain, and hard bones and teeth.
9. "Rihuazi Materia Medica": removes wind and fatigue, eliminates phlegm and quenches thirst, and stores warm water.
Treatment of stroke, aphonia and scabies.
Bathing in peach and green onion soup can help you sweat.
Dried alum
Dried alum, also known as calcined alum. Take the cleaned alum, put it in a casserole, heat it, melt it, and simmer it until it dries up, then take it out.
The properties are irregular crystals of different sizes. Colorless, transparent or translucent, the surface is slightly smooth or uneven, with fine longitudinal edges and a glass-like luster. Hard and brittle, easily smashed. The smell is slight and the taste is slightly sweet and astringent. The best ones are white, transparent, hard and brittle, and free of impurities. Easily soluble in water or glycerin, insoluble in alcohol. Aqueous solutions show various reactions of aluminum salts, potassium salts and sulfates. Produced in Gansu, Anhui, Shanxi, Hubei, Zhejiang and other places.
Efficacy and functions of dried alum: Indications:
Eliminate phlegm, dry dampness, stop diarrhea, stop bleeding, detoxify, and kill insects. Treat epilepsy, sore throat, excessive salivation, hepatitis, jaundice, jaundice, stomach and duodenal ulcers, uterine prolapse, leucorrhea, diarrhea, epistaxis, mouth and tongue sores, hemorrhoids and scabies, water and fire , insect damage.
① "Herbal Classic": "Mainly used for diarrhea caused by cold and heat, white stool, vaginal erosion and malignant sores, eye pain, hard bones and teeth."
② "Bielu": "Except for " It fixes heat in the bone marrow and removes polyps in the nose. "
③ "Treatise on Medical Properties": "Cure rat leakage, scrofula, epistaxis, nasal congestion, produce pharyngeal fluid, and treat acute laryngitis." "
④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Removes wind and fatigue, eliminates phlegm and quenches thirst. Treats stroke, aphonia and scabies. Take a bath with peach and green onion soup to relieve sweating. "
⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "If the fire dries up and turns into powder, and the nail is stuck, and the blood between the teeth is like a nose, the stick will heal."
"Compendium of Materia Medica" Mengquan": "Inhibition of bowel movements, toothache due to stuffing, washing out of the anus and intestines. Apply to abscesses to collect water."
⑦"Introduction to Medicine": "Treatment of swollen ears, pus, and red eyes. Neoplasm, rash, sores in the mouth and tongue, swollen and painful teeth that are broken and broken for a long time, acute throat wind paralysis, irritability in the heart and lungs, excessive wind and saliva, thirst and diarrhea, and can also be used to treat snakes, scorpions, vicious dogs, wall mirrors, and donkey saliva. , horse sweat poison injury "
⑧ "Outline": "Spit out phlegm and drink phosphorus to dry dampness and detoxify, relieve salivation, stop bleeding and relieve pain, eat bad meat, produce good meat, and treat carbuncle and boils. , malignant sores, epilepsy, jaundice, loose bowels, mouth, teeth, and eyes, injuries from tigers, dogs, snakes, scorpions, and insects. " 9. "Yilin Compilation Essentials": "Used raw to detoxify, and calcined to promote muscle growth. But water. "
Usage and dosage: Take it as pills or powder, 0.2 qian. External use: Grind into powder and sprinkle or mix for application.
Note
People with yin deficiency, weak stomach, and no dampness and heat should not take it.
① "Wu Pu's Materia Medica": "Qi Bo: Taking it for a long time will hurt human bones."
② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Licorice is the envoy. It hates oysters."
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③ "Treatise on the Properties of Medicine": "Afraid of ephedra.
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④ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Don't take too much, it will damage the heart and lungs, and it will cause water loss. "
⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Anyone with yin deficiency, internal heat, burning fire and water drying up, and a sore throat should not take this product." It should not be used if the pain in the eyes is caused by yin deficiency and blood heat. "
⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It should not be used if diarrhea lasts for a long time due to deficiency of spleen and stomach qi; white fertilization in women due to depression of middle qi; and insufficient nourishing blood to cause cold and heat. "
The raw materials of the external prescription include 6 grams of dried alum, 1.2 grams of borneol, and 1.5 grams of gallnut. Preparation method: Grind into fine powder. When used, disinfect according to the previous method first, and then use wheat Blow the powder into the ear through a (grass) tube or a small paper tube, 3 times a day. Usage and efficacy According to reports, 30 cases of acute and chronic suppurative otitis media were treated with this prescription, and most of them were cured. The course of treatment was short, and those who were not cured were There is also improvement. In addition, after two or three days after the newborn is born, after taking a bath every day, gently apply and rub dry alum powder on its neck, armpits, arms and skin folds, and even on the skin of the whole body, and then use pine pollen powder. Gently apply dried alum powder to the skin of the whole body. Generally, pine pollen powder can be used for 10-20 days. If the newborn does not use dried alum powder to rub the skin, the neck, armpits, and other parts of the body will be affected as long as the child sweats a little. Skin erosion will occur in the vagina (especially girls), but this phenomenon will not occur in children who have been rubbed with dry alum powder.
Bile alum
("Pinhui"). "Essence")
Synonyms: Shi Dan, Bi Shi, Jun Shi ("Ben Jing"), Heishi, Tong Le ("Wu Pu Materia Medica"), Ji Shi ("Bie Lu"), Li Zhi Shi (Tao Hongjing), Shiliu, Shineng ("Shi Yao Erya"), duckbill bile alum ("Jisheng Prescription"), cudan alum ("Materia Medica Mengquan"), blue vitriol ("Handbook of Chinese Medicinal Materials") 》).
Process, remove impurities, and grind into small pieces.
The taste is sour and pungent, cold, and poisonous. ① "Herbal Classic": "Taste. Sour, cold. "
②"Wu Pu's Materia Medica": "Shen Nong: sour, minor cold. Li Shi: Great Cold. Tongjun: Pungent, poisonous. Bian Que: Bitter, non-toxic. "
③ "Treatise on the Properties of Medicine": "It is very poisonous. "
④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "It tastes sour and astringent, and is very poisonous. "
Returns to the liver and gallbladder meridian.
① "Compendium": "Enters the Shaoyang gallbladder meridian. "
②"Medicine of Medicine": "Enter the liver and gallbladder meridians. "
Functions include inducing vomiting, removing putrefaction, and detoxifying. Treats wind and phlegm congestion, laryngeal paralysis, epilepsy, tooth decay, aphthous sores, rotten eyes, hemorrhoids, and swollen poison.
① "Herbal Classic": "It is mainly used to improve eyesight, eye pain, sores, epilepsy, vaginal pain in women, stranguria, cold and heat, metrorrhagia and bleeding, and various evil and poisonous gases. "
② "Bie Lu": "Scattered symptoms are accumulated, cough is reversed, upper gas is raised, and rat fistula is malignant. "
③"Treatise on the Properties of Medicine": "Destroys heat and poison. "
④ "Tang Materia Medica": "The blood under the main body is red and white, the face is yellow, and the woman's internal organs are cold. "
⑤"Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Treatment of vermicelli teeth and intranasal polyps. "
⑥"Ben Cao Tu Jing": "Spitting wind and phlegm. "
⑦"Compendium of Materia Medica": "Cure throat moth poison. "
⑧"Compendium of Materia Medica": "Relieves throat paralysis and treats tooth decay and gum decay." "
⑨ "Jade Catalpa Medicinal Solution": "Cure foot ulcers, hemorrhoids and fistulas, red bayberry, golden sores, vitiligo, all swelling and pain, vaginal discharge, collapse, upper gas, eye pain, string rot, mad dogs
Bites, insects in the ears, body odor under the arms. "
⑩"Yilin Zhuan Yao": "It can relieve liver wind, purge liver fire, astringe lung qi, clear lung evil, and also nourish the heart, soften hardness and remove toxins." The function is similar to that of alum. "
Usage and dosage: Oral administration: Take pills or powder, 1 to 2 minutes. External use: Grind into powder and sprinkle or apply on it, or dissolve it in water for eyewash.
It should be avoided by those with physical weakness. .
① "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Shui Ying is the envoy." Fear of osmanthus, osmanthus, genkwa, magnolia, and whiteweed. "
②"Treatise on the Properties of Medicine": "Lu Ying is the envoy. "
Select prescription ① to treat throat wind and acute throat paralysis: two and a half qian of duckbill gall alum, half a qian of white zombie silkworm (fried and silk-removed). The upper part is fine powder. Take a little each time. Use a bamboo pipe
and blow into the throat ("Jisheng Prescription" Ersheng Powder)
②Treat aphthous sores, blocked throat, and milk moth: 1 qian for bile alum, 1 qian for bear bile. Make the powder into fine powder, take one wood turtle seed, grind it into well water, dip it in goose feathers and apply it. /p>
③Treatment of initial stroke paralysis, within one day: grind the bile alum into flour, add a word of it every time, drink it with warm vinegar soup and spit out immediately ("Tan's Prescription for Children")
④ To treat tooth decay: take 50% of Coptis chinensis and 5% of each of gallbladder and catechin. For scabies: remove the pit from one jujube, put it into duckbill gall alum, pack it in paper and refine it to remove the fire poison, grind it into powder and apply it ("Simple Prescription")
⑥Treatment of sores in the mouth and tongue: gall alum one. Divide the dried toad into powder (grind it into powder) and mix it on the sore for a long time. Rinse your mouth with five liters of fresh water until all the water is absorbed. ("Sheng Hui Prescription")
⑦Cure nasal malnutrition in children: burn out the bile alum, grind it into powder and mix it into powder ("Binhu Collection of Simple Prescriptions")
⑧ To treat red and rotten eyes: burn and grind three qian of bile alum, soak in hot water and wash it every day.
("Empirical Prescriptions for Improving Eyesight")
⑨Cure hemorrhoids due to heat and swelling: green bile alum (calcined and ground), mixed with honey and water for application. ("Renzhai Zhizhi Prescription")
⑩Cure swelling and poison without breaking it: a little bit of bile alum and bird droppings, dot them. ("Renzhai Zhizhi Prescription")
⑾To treat onychomycosis, gallbladder pain, and persistent pus and blood: half a tael of stone gallbladder, grind it carefully, apply it on the sore, two or three times a day. ("Sheng Ji Zong Lu" Shi Dan Powder)
⑿Cure wind dog bite poison: apply gall alum powder. ("Ji Ji Xian Fang")
⒀To treat hundreds of insects in the ears: irrigate it with bile alum powder and vinegar. ("Qianjin Prescription")
Famous experts commented ① "Compendium": "Stone gallbladder has a convergent and ascending nature. It can generate wind, heat, phlegm and saliva, disperse wind and wood fire, and can kill insects, so it can treat the throat.
It has a miraculous effect on oral and dental sores. "
② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Lou Quanshan said: Those with laryngitis and aversion to cold are all caused by cold expelling heat and cold closing the outside. If there is heat and stagnation in the throat, avoid gallbladder, alum, sourness, cold, etc. that can be applied to the throat, which will cause the yang stagnation to be suppressed and lead to reverse drama. If so, this flavor is suitable for those with closed throat and wind in the throat, because it can cure yin and cannot store yang. The paralysis is due to wind-induced paralysis, which is a paralysis of the throat that is not aversion to cold. The unsuitable ones are paralysis that does not treat yang and cannot reach yin. It is due to wind deficiency, which is a paralysis of the throat that is aversion to cold. It is also something that should be avoided by Zhengquanshan. This flavor is used in Shaoyang, which can dispel wind and wood, so it can treat wind, phlegm, and throat paralysis caused by Shaoyang fire, such as throat numbness caused by aversion to cold. If it is hot, it is not a sign of fire. It is better to eliminate the yin and expand the yang. It is not suitable to use the medicine to absorb the yang and help the yin. "
Yellow Alum
Also known as Golden Thread Alum. "Sea Medicine Materia Medica"), Jiye Alum ("Materia Medica Mengquan").
The medicinal part is the ore of the sulfate mineral yellow vitriol.
Functional Indications
Treat hemorrhoids, fistulas, malignant sores, and scabies.
① "Tang Materia Medica": "Cure sores and raw meat."
② "Haiyao Materia Medica": "Mainly used for pheasant fistula, hemorrhoids, malignant sores, scabies and other diseases."
③Li Gao: "Cure Yangming wind-heat toothache."
Usage and dosage
External use: Grind into fine powder and sprinkle or apply. Oral administration: take pills.
Selection of prescriptions
① Treat hemorrhoids, fistulas, swelling and pain, and persistent pus and blood: 3 liang of alum, 6 liang of black snake (soaked in wine, bone and skin removed, roasted until yellow), 3 liang of astragalus (file), 2 liang of Citrus aurantium husk (fried with bran until slightly yellow, removed from the pulp), 3 liang of camel chest hair (burned to ashes). Apply the medicine and pound the Luo into powder, refine the honey and pound it into three or two hundred pestles, and the pills will be as big as sycamore seeds. Before eating, take 20 pills of fried Huangqi soup. ("Sheng Hui Fang" Yellow Alum Pills)
② To treat pus from the ears of children: half a tael of yellow alum, one point of cuttlefish bone, and one point of coptis (remove the beard). Apply the medicine and pound the Luo into powder, wrap it in a cotton ball as big as a jujube stone, stuff it in the ear, and remove it three times a day. ("Sheng Hui Fang" Yellow Alum Powder)
③Treat women's cheek sores that recur every year: 2 liang of yellow alum stone (burn the juice to drain), 1 liang of Hu powder, and 1 liang of mercury Half. Pound and sift the vitriol, and then sift the coriander powder. First add a piece of pig fat, grind it hot in a porcelain pot to eliminate the mercury, add more pig fat, mix it with alumite and coriander powder, and mix it to make it thicker. Apply it to the sores on the face, and do not boil the cocoa powder. Yellow, after applying the ointment, the powder will become thinner. ("Repairing the Back of the Elbow")
④Treatment of acute malnutrition, broken teeth, swollen and swollen lips: yellow vitriol, green vitriol, alumen (burning juice is exhausted), white dog dung ashes, and grass grass , realgar (finely grind), half two each, stone gallbladder (finely grind), hyacinth seed (fried black), dried earthworm (lightly fried), human feces ash, one penny each, and musk (finely grind). Apply the medicine and pound the Luo into powder, grind it all and make it even. First, rinse your mouth with salt water three to two times, then apply it on top, and use it three times a day. Do not swallow if there is saliva. ("Sheng Hui Fang" Yellow Alum Powder)
⑤Treatment of jealous sores: yellow alum, green alum, musk. Divide the three flavors into equal parts, and apply it after urination, but not more than three times. ("Qianjin Prescription")
Green vitriol
Effects: drying dampness and reducing phlegm, eliminating accumulation and killing insects, stopping bleeding and replenishing blood, detoxifying and curing sores.
Indications: Treat yellow swelling and fullness, chronic malnutrition and dysentery, intestinal wind and blood in the stool, blood deficiency and chlorosis, eczema and scabies, sore throat, aphthous sores, and rotten eyes.
Meridian distribution of nature and flavor: sour, cool. ① "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Cool, non-toxic." ② "Pinhui Jingyao": "Sour taste, cold nature, non-toxic." ③ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Sour and astringent taste, cool nature, Toxic. "Enter the lungs, liver, spleen, and large intestine. Usage and dosage: Oral administration: Take pills or powder, 0.5 1.5 qian. External use: Grind into powder and sprinkle or apply it, or apply it as a solution for washing.
Taboos when taking this medicine: Taking it too much can cause vomiting and abdominal pain. People with weak stomachs should take it with caution. ① "Compendium": "Afraid of vinegar." ② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It causes diarrhea, and people with weak stomachs should not use it more."
Alias: alum ("Tang Materia Medica"), alum ( Liu Yuxi's "Zhuan Xin Fang"), saponin ("Puji Prescription")
Prescription names: saponin, green vitriol, green vitriol, raw saponin, calcined saponin and other raw saponins are the original drugs Those who break it raw and use it as medicine. It is irritating to the stomach and intestines and should not be taken orally raw. The words saponite, green vitriol and green vitriol mentioned in the prescription all refer to calcined saponite. Put the raw medicine into an iron pot, heat it until it melts, dig out a hollow in the middle when it is dry, and burn it until the four sides and the middle turn red. Pour in rice vinegar while it is still hot, mix it thoroughly and bake it to dry. Take it out and let it cool before using it as medicine.
Trade name: soap vitriol, green vitriol, green vitriol. The ones that are clean and free of impurities are better.
Distribution of animal and plant resources: often produced in fissures containing semi-decomposed ores rich in pyrite below the oxidation zone. Produced in Shandong, Hunan, Gansu, Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, Henan and other places.
Harvesting and storage of medicinal materials: After harvesting, remove impurities. It should be stored tightly to prevent discoloration or moisture.
Latin name: Melanterite
Preparation method: Calcined green vitriol (also known as: purple vitriol, vitriol red): Put the green vitriol and rice vinegar in a casserole, cover it, and put Burn on the charcoal stove and calcine. When the green alum melts, stir evenly with bamboo chips to fully mix the alum and vinegar. Then heat and calcine until the green vitriol is completely brown. Take it out and let it cool. (For every 100 kilograms of green vitriol, use 20 kilograms of rice vinegar)
Research: From "Rihuazi Materia Medica". ① "Tang Materia Medica": "Jiang alum is originally green. When it comes out of the cave without seeing the wind, it is just like Ruli. People in the Tao Dynasty and today call it stone gallbladder. When burned, it turns red, so it is called jiang alum. It came out of Guazhou." ② " "Ben Cao Tu Jing": "Alum stone was born in the Hexi Valley and the Shimen of Wudu in Longxi Province. Today's white alum is in Wuweijun, Cizhou, Jinzhou, and green alum is in Wenquan County, Xizhou and Tongling County, Chizhou. They are also produced in places where alum is fried. They are all stone when they are born. Also, pick it up and decoct it into pieces. The green vitriol looks like plain and green. Take this thing and place it on an iron plate, gather charcoal, seal it in a bag, blow on the fire, and the alum will boil and flow out, and the color will be red. Such as melting gold juice, it is true. There is also acacia vitriol used as medicine, or green vitriol is used in "Zhuan Xin Fang" to treat throat paralysis. "③" Compendium": "Green vitriol can dye soap color. It is called soap vitriol. There is also black vitriol, which is not suitable for consumption. It is only used at home if it burns red. "Green vitriol is produced in Hanoi and Xi'an in Shanxi." It looks like flames disappearing, and the dark green and clear ones are picked out, which is green alum. When it is burnt and turns red, it is jade alum. "
1 "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine" records: Green alum is used. In small amounts, it can replenish blood, be used for anemia and chlorosis, and treat gastrointestinal bleeding. It can be used as pills in combination with other medicines.
Used raw in large quantities as an emetic.
For external use, it can be used for treating conjunctivitis, ringworm, impetigo, body odor, etc. The thin liquid of this product has astringent effect.
2 "Introduction to Medicine" records: Green vitriol can eliminate edema and jaundice, treat malnutrition in children, and treat onychomycosis, swelling, pain and discharge of water.
3. "Tang Materia Medica" records: Green vitriol can treat chancre and various sores.
4. "Compendium" records: green vitriol eliminates stagnation, dries spleen dampness, resolves phlegm and saliva, and removes swelling, yellowing, swelling, malaria, wind, eyes, and mouth diseases.
5. "Rihuazi Materia Medica" records: green vitriol can treat throat paralysis, bell teeth, aphthous sores, malignant sores, and scabies; stuffed crucian carp burnt ashes and kimono can treat intestinal wind and diarrhea.
6. "Medical True Story" records: Green vitriol treats jaundice: