What are the uses of cinnabar for oral administration?

Taking cinnabar has the effects of calming the nerves, calming convulsions, and detoxifying. Before taking cinnabar, you need to understand the correct way to use cinnabar. The following is the content about the use of cinnabar taken internally. I hope you like it! Cinnabar taken internally Usage

Oral administration: Grind into powder, 1 to 3 minutes; mix into pills, powder, or mix with other medicines and decoct. Also used as a hanging garment for pills. External use: grind the other medicine into powder and sprinkle it dry. Notes on taking the traditional Chinese medicine cinnabar

It is not advisable to take it for a long time or frequently.

① "Wu Pu's Materia Medica": "Afraid of magnets. Aversion to salt water."

② "Medicinal Pair": "Avoid all blood."

③ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Used alone for multiple uses, it makes people feel dull." Introduction to cinnabar

Cinnabar, also known as cinnabar, is a commonly used tranquilizer. It can treat palpitation, insomnia, dreaminess, irritability, and epileptic seizures, such as sudden fainting, foaming at the mouth, lockjaw, and upward gaze. Pharmacological experiments have now proven that this product has a sedative effect and can also reduce the excitability of the brain center. This product mainly contains mercury sulfide, which is particularly easy to combine with sulfhydryl groups in proteins and can inhibit the activities of various enzymes. Mercury can cross the blood-brain barrier and directly damage the central nervous system. If used illegally, or used in large quantities and for a long time, mercury poisoning can occur.

Symptoms of poisoning include nausea, vomiting, sore throat, abdominal pain and diarrhea. In severe cases, there may be anal swelling, pus and blood in the stool, and even gastrointestinal perforation, general edema, oliguria, and finally heart failure. die. Therefore, it is particularly important to control and pay attention to the amount and usage of cinnabar. Prescriptions for taking the traditional Chinese medicine cinnabar

①Cure wind evil and dysentery, raving, trance, confused thinking, singing and crying, disordered eating, rapid hair falling to the ground, foaming at the mouth, and For those who keep their eyes closed and are very old: one tael of cinnabar (for bright ones, grind them up), half a tael each of jujube kernels (for lightly fried ones, grind them up), and frankincense (for bright ones, grind them up). Mix the above three flavors together and mix well. First, let the patient drink as much as possible to make him intoxicated. Next, take five qian dagger of medicine and one cup of wine. Mix it down and sleep peacefully in a quiet room without disturbing others. ("Shengji Zonglu" Dansha Pills)

② To treat extreme moodiness and madness: cinnabar, alum, and turmeric. For the end, honey pills. Mint soup is delivered with ten pills. ("Chensha Pills" in "The Three Books of Scholars")

③Cure all kinds of frights, worries, or trance in dreams, forgetfulness of things, lack of energy, epilepsy and madness, all can be cured: two ounces of cinnabar, There are two pig hearts and three taels of lamp hearts. Cut the pig's heart open, add cinnabar and lamp wick inside, tie it with twine, boil it for a while in a silver stone vessel, do not use the pig's heart and lamp wick, only grind the cinnabar very finely, use two ounces of Zhen Fu Shen powder, and wine. Cook a thin paste and make balls with cinnabar, as big as a tung seed. Take 9 to 15 pills each time, add to 21 pills, and decoction with the heart-free Ophiopogon japonicus. For epilepsy or even severe cases, take frankincense and ginseng soup. If you have trouble sleeping at night or have troubled dreams, drink fried jujube kernel soup. ("One Hundred Prescriptions" Gui Shen Dan)

④Cure postpartum dysentery, septicemia and evil spirits entering the heart: 1 or 2 qian of cinnabar. Grind it finely, use three or four teaspoons of Yin'er's milk to adjust the humidity, take one piece of Purple Neck Earthworm, roll it into the medicine three times, scrape it clean, remove the Earthworm, add one cup of ashless wine, and take it three or four times. ("Compendium")

⑤ To treat confusion, palpitations, and restless sleep: half a tael each of cinnabar and coptis, 2 qian of Angelica sinensis, 3 qian of Rehmannia glutinosa, and 2 qian of licorice. The top is made of fine powder, soaked in wine and steamed into cakes. The pills are as big as pockmarks and covered with cinnabar. Take 30 pills each time and drink it with body fluid while lying down. ("Yizong Jinjian" Cinnabar Anshen Pills)

⑥Treatment of heart deficiency and spermatorrhea: Take a pig heart, connect the slices, mix it with cinnabar powder, tie it with a thread: cook it with white water and eat it. ("Tang Yao's Experience Prescription")

⑦Cure dim eyesight and enable clear vision: half a tael of cinnabar (finely grind) and one green sheep gallbladder. Put cinnabar powder into the bladder, hang it in the northwest corner of the house, dry it in the shade, take it out during the day, and make a pill as big as a small bean. After each meal, drink ten pills with porridge. ("Sheng Hui Fang" Cinnabar Pills)

⑧ Improve eyesight: one liang of Guangmingsha (the best cinnabar), four liang of Divine Comedy, and two liang of magnet. At the end of the three flavors, refine the honey into pills, as big as Wuzi. Drink and take three pills, three times a day. Take it regularly to improve your eyesight. ("Qianjin Prescription" Shenqu Pills)

⑨ To treat swelling and pain in the throat and stuffy throat: one point of cinnabar (grind, fly in water), one and two halves of Glauber's salt (grind). Grind the two flavors together until evenly mixed. Blow into your throat every time you use one word. ("Shengji Zonglu" Dansha Powder)

⑩Cure all kinds of vomiting of blood: Dansha (Grind Fei), clam powder. Divide the two flavors into equal parts, grind them finely and mix well. Take two qian daggers each time, sprinkle with warm water and mix.

("Zhonglu of Shengji" Zhufensan)