Alum Alum is a sulfate mineral alunite, which is refined by processing and mainly contains hydrated potassium aluminum sulfate [kal (SO4) 2. 12h2o]. Location: Anhui, Zhejiang, Shanxi, Hubei and other places. It can be mined all year round. The collected alunite is dissolved in water, filtered, the filtrate is heated and concentrated, and the crystal obtained after cooling is alum. Raw or calcined. It is called dried alum after calcination.
This medicine is sour, astringent and cold. Enter lung, spleen, liver and large intestine meridian.
Efficacy: Externally detoxifying and killing insects, eliminating dampness and relieving itching; Take orally to stop bleeding, stop diarrhea and resolve phlegm.
App application
1. External use for eczema, itching, sores and scabies. This product is dry and sour, but it is good at absorbing moisture and relieving itching. Especially suitable for wet sores or itchy sores. For carbuncle, it is often used together with ground sodium nitrate for external use, such as Erxian Powder (Health-preserving Bao); The standard of syndrome differentiation and treatment is to treat aphtha, ear, nasal polyps and alcoholic nose with alum alone or with sulfur and frankincense. Alum is a commonly used medicine to treat hemorrhoids, proctoptosis and uterine prolapse, such as Xiaozhiling injection, which is mainly composed of alum and gallnut.
2. Oral treatment ① bloody stool, vomiting and metrorrhagia. This product has astringent effect, can enter the liver meridian, divide blood, and has astringent and hemostatic effects, and can be used to treat various bleeding syndromes. Treatment of epistaxis, grinding dried alum into powder and blowing nose ("Shengji Zonglu"); For metrorrhagia and metrorrhagia, it is combined with Galla Chinensis and Sanguisorba officinalis. In order to treat the bleeding of golden sore, raw alum and calcined alum were mixed with rosin and ground into powder, which was applied externally to the wound. ② Persistent diarrhea and dysentery. Take its astringent and antidiarrheal function, mix it with stewed terminalia chebula and treat it with porridge, such as "Helile Powder" (Sheng Huifang). ③ Phlegm syncope epilepsy syndrome. Alum is sour and bitter, which can dispel wind and resolve phlegm. It should be combined with turmeric as the end, and taken with Minte Plaster Pill to treat epilepsy and madness caused by phlegm turbidity, such as Baijin Pill. ④ Damp-heat jaundice. It has the function of eliminating dampness and resolving Huang Zhi, so it can be combined with saltpetre to treat female labor yellow, such as saltpetre powder (Synopsis of Golden Chamber).
Usage and dosage: Take proper amount for external use, and grind, smear, smear or rinse the affected area with water. Oral 0.6 ~ 1.5g, divided into pills and powder.
Pay attention to physical weakness, weak stomach, and no damp-heat and phlegm fire.
Ancient book abstracts
1. Shennong's Herbal Classic: "Treat cold and heat to stop dysentery, white swelling, yin erosion and malignant sores, eye pain, strong teeth and strong bones."
2. Compendium of Materia Medica: "No defecation and diarrhea, toothache, washing rectocele and astringent intestine, applying abscess and collecting water."
3. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Alum stone has four functions: spitting phlegm beneficial to wind and heat, and taking its sour and bitter discharge; Treat all kinds of blood pain, proctoptosis, yin stiffness, sore poison, take its acid and collect it; Treat phlegm, diarrhea, leukorrhagia and wind eye, take it and dry it; Treat laryngitis, carbuncle, Chinese medicine, snake insect sting, and take it to detoxify. "
Modern research
1. Chemical composition: potassium aluminum sulfate hydrate [kal (SO4) 2. 12h2o], and the dried alum is dehydrated alum.
2. Pharmacological action: Alum can strongly coagulate protein, which can be used as anti-inflammatory, hemostatic, antiperspirant, antidiarrheal and sclerosing agent in clinic. It has broad-spectrum antibacterial activity, has different degrees of antibacterial effect on a variety of Gram-positive cocci and negative bacilli, some anaerobic bacteria, dermatophytes and Candida albicans, and has obvious inhibitory effect on Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. It has obvious anti-trichomonas effect on female private parts in vitro. Alum perfusion through urethra has hemostatic effect; It can also promote ulcer healing; Purify turbid raw water.
3. Clinical study: It is reported that alum or its proper combination has a satisfactory effect in treating impetigo, eczema, impetigo, tinea of hands and feet, intractable oral ulcer, enteritis, dysentery, gastrointestinal bleeding, epilepsy and other diseases. In recent years, it has also been reported that saturated alum solution and tweezers were used to treat hemorrhoid 1097 cases (that is, saturated alum solution 1 ~ 3ml was injected into the submucosal vascular mass of hemorrhoid nucleus, and the hemorrhoid nucleus was repeatedly clamped with vascular forceps for about 2 ~ 3 minutes to make it thin). After the operation, 787 cases were followed up, and the cure rate was 1000%. To treat chronic hypertrophic rhinitis, 60% alum injection was injected into hypertrophic submucosa of turbinate, each part was 0.2 ~ 0.3 ml, 5 ~ 6 days 1 time, 365 cases were observed, and the effective rate was 98.36% (China Journal of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, 1994, 2 ∶ 75); 43 patients with esophageal varices bleeding were sterilized by 2% alum solution under high pressure, 300 ml each time, and instilled through nose and esophagus within 60 ~ 75 minutes. The effective rate was 95.3% (comprehensive clinical medicine, 1994, 1∶38). In addition, it can also prevent and treat rice field dermatitis, and can be used for treating bedsore, burn and scald, otitis media, sweaty feet, bleeding from urinary surgery, uterine prolapse, rectal prolapse, kidney calculi's disease, hyperlipidemia, viral hepatitis, etc.
4. Adverse reaction: Alum concentrated solution has obvious irritation to skin and mucous membrane, and high dose of Alum can cause burns in mouth and throat, vomiting and diarrhea, collapse and even death (China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1989, 2∶42).
efficacy
1, detoxification
Alum is sour and cold, and it is good at detoxifying and killing insects, eliminating dampness and relieving itching for external use, especially for wet sores or itching.
Step 2 stop bleeding
Alum is astringent, can enter the blood of liver meridian, has astringent and hemostatic effects, and can be used to treat various bleeding syndromes. Such as bloody stool, nosebleed, metrorrhagia, etc.
3, astringent bowel to stop diarrhea
Alum is dry and sour, which has a certain astringent and antidiarrheal effect, and has a good relieving effect on chronic diarrhea caused by spleen and stomach yang deficiency and gastrointestinal instability.
4, get rid of wind phlegm
Alum is sour and bitter, can dispel wind and resolve phlegm, and has certain curative effect on phlegm, epilepsy and madness. In addition, alum can turn yellow when wet, which is helpful to treat damp-heat jaundice.
Step 5 prevent beriberi
Alum has the function of astringing pores and reducing sweat secretion. A large number of sweat-secreting bacteria can easily cause foot odor and beriberi. Soaking feet with alum can reduce sweat secretion and prevent foot odor and beriberi.
6, antibacterial
Alum has antibacterial effect. It also has obvious inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Proteus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, anthrax, dysentery bacillus, typhoid bacillus, paratyphoid bacillus, Proteus, Staphylococcus, Candida albicans, etc.