The dried alum is made into powder for treating chylous dermatoses and itching sores, which enhances the effects of astringing, healing sores, promoting granulation, stopping bleeding, removing putrefaction and promoting granulation, and has the most remarkable effect on treating dermatoses and gynecological diseases. Dry alum, also known as calcined alum, has a slightly smooth or uneven crystal surface, fine longitudinal edges, glass-like luster, hard and brittle, and is easy to crush.
Although dried alum has the effect of treating gastritis and other stomach diseases, it is not suitable for patients with spleen and stomach weakness, because dried alum itself is difficult to digest, especially for patients with yin deficiency. Dry alum itself has the effect of eliminating dampness and exorcising evil spirits, which can enhance people's immunity.
If there is not much or no moisture in the body, but it is easy to get angry, then it is even more unsuitable to treat it with dried alum. If you take it for a long time, it will cause neurological symptoms such as dizziness. Therefore, in addition to the taboo of dried alum, its dosage should be strictly controlled.
Extended information: profile of dried alum:
1. Also known as calcined alum, take the cleaned alum, put it in a casserole, heat and melt until it is dry, and take it out. It is an irregular crystal with different sizes, colorless, transparent or translucent, slightly smooth or uneven surface, fine longitudinal edges and glass-like luster.
2. Hard and brittle, easy to crush, slightly fragrant, slightly sweet and astringent, white and transparent in color, hard and brittle without impurities, soluble in water or glycerol, insoluble in alcohol, and produced in Gansu, Anhui, Shanxi, Hubei, Zhejiang and other places.
3. The functions of dried alum are: eliminating phlegm, eliminating dampness, stopping diarrhea, stopping bleeding, detoxicating, killing insects, treating epilepsy, laryngitis, salivation, hepatitis, jaundice, yellow stomach, duodenal ulcer, uterine prolapse, leucorrhea, diarrhea, bleeding, mouth sores, hemorrhoids, scabies and so on.
4. The stomach is weak due to yin deficiency, and those without damp heat should avoid taking it. Upp materia medica: "Qi Bo: Long-term service hurts people's bones." Herbal notes: "licorice makes it." Ugly oysters. " Theory of medicinal properties: "fear of ephedra." Materia Medica: "Don't take too much, it hurts the lungs, but it causes water."
5. "Materia Medica": "Yin deficiency with internal heat and sore throat caused by water burning should not contain this." It is also not suitable for eye pain caused by yin deficiency and blood heat. "Materia Medica Yan Hui": "Diarrhea lasts for a long time because of spleen and stomach qi deficiency; Women are white, because they are heavy; "Not suitable for people with blood deficiency, cold and heat."
6. The main component of dried alum is potassium aluminum sulfate dodecahydrate, which can hardly be excreted after entering the human body and will be deposited in the human body forever. Aluminum in dried alum is not a trace element needed by human body, which will affect the absorption of iron, calcium and other components, thus leading to anemia and osteoporosis. The main toxic side effect is that dried alum can kill brain cells, causing brain atrophy, dementia and other symptoms in advance.
7. As early as 1980s, dried alum was prohibited as a food additive and long-term contact in China. In 2003, the World Health Organization banned dried alum as a harmful substance.
8. It is reported that 30 cases of acute and chronic suppurative otitis media were treated with this prescription, most of them were cured, and the course of treatment was short, and those who were not cured also got better. In addition, two or three days after the newborn is born, after taking a bath every day, gently smear and rub the neck, armpits, arms, skin folds and even the whole body skin with dried alum powder, and then gently pat the whole body skin with pine pollen.
9. Dry alum powder is generally used for 10-20 days, and pine pollen can be used for a long time. If the newborn does not use dried alum powder to wipe the skin, as long as the child sweats a little, skin erosion will occur in the neck, armpit and perineum (especially in girls), but the child who uses dried alum powder will not appear this phenomenon. ?
Reference: Baidu encyclopedia dried alum