Alum alum for the sulfate mineral alumite by processing and refining made of the main aluminum potassium sulfate containing water [KAl (SO4) 2-12H2O]. Mainly produced in Anhui, Zhejiang, Shanxi, Hubei and other places. All year round can be dug. The alum stone will be obtained by dissolving in water, filtered, the filtrate is heated and concentrated, and the crystals obtained after cooling are alum. Raw or calcined. After calcination, it is called alum.
Acid, astringent, cold. Attributed to lung, spleen, liver and large intestine meridian.
Effects Externally, detoxicating and killing insects, drying dampness and relieving itching; internally, stopping bleeding, stopping diarrhea and resolving phlegm.
Application
1. Externally used to treat eczema and itching, sores and scabies. This product is dry, acidic and astringent, and is good at collecting dampness and stopping itching. Especially suitable for the treatment of sores wet or itchy. Treatment of carbuncles, often with Park Nitrate powder for external use, such as Erxian San ("Health Treasure"); "evidence of treatment" single alum or with sulfur, frankincense, etc. treatment of mouth sores, _ ear, nasal polyps, alcohol and cold nose. Alum is more commonly used in the treatment of hemorrhoids, prolapse of the anus, uterine prolapse, such as alum, five times the composition of the main anti-hemorrhoid injection.
2. It is used internally for treating blood in stool, epistaxis and leakage. This product is astringent in nature, can enter the blood portion of liver meridian, has the effect of astringency and stopping bleeding, and can be used to treat many kinds of bleeding cases. It can be used to treat epistaxis, blowing the nose with withered alum powder ("General Records of the Sheng Ji"); treating leakage, with five times the seeds, ground elm; treating bleeding from gold sores, with raw alum, calcined alum with pine rosin powder, and externally applying to the wounded area. ② long diarrhea and dysentery. Take its astringent antidiarrheal effect, with the simmering chebulin meat for bulk, porridge drink under the treatment, such as the chebulin (Sheng Hui Fang). (3) phlegmatic epilepsy epilepsy. Alum sour bitter chung drain and can dispel wind and phlegm, but also when with tulip for the end, mint paste pill service, treatment of phlegm congestion epilepsy and madness, such as the white gold pill ("Medical Fang Jie Jie Jie"). ④ Damp-heat jaundice. It has the function of removing dampness and removing jaundice, and can be combined with nitrate to treat jaundice of female labor, such as nitrate powder ("The Essentials of the Golden Chamber").
Usage and dosage for external use, powdered, spreading, dressing or washing the affected area. Internally 0.6-1.5g, into the pill, bulk service.
Attention to the use of weak stomach and no dampness, heat, phlegm and fire should be avoided.
Abstracts of Ancient Books
1. "Shennong Ben Cao Jing": "Main cold and heat diarrhea, Baiwo, yin erosion and evil sores, eye pain, firm teeth and bones."
2. "Materia Medica Monchuan": "prohibit stool diarrhea, plug the tooth pain, wash the anus and astringent intestines, apply pus sores to collect water."
3. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "The use of alum stone has four: spitting wind-heat phlegm and saliva, take its acidic and bitter drainage; treatment of blood pain, prolapse of the anus, the yin jing, sores and ulcers, to take its acidic and astringent and collection; treatment of phlegm, diarrhea, discharges, rheumatism, take its collection and drying of dampness; treatment of paralysis of the throat, carbuncles and gangrene, in the parasites, snakes and insects stings, to take its antidote toxins also."
Modern research
1. Chemical composition: anhydrous aluminum potassium sulfate [KAl(SO4)2-12H2O], alum is dehydrated alum.
2. Pharmacological effects: alum can strongly coagulate proteins, clinical use and can be anti-inflammatory, antiemetic, antiperspirant, antidiarrheal and used as a sclerosing agent. Can be broad-spectrum antibacterial, on a variety of gram-positive cocci and negative bacilli, some anaerobic bacteria, dermatophytes, Candida albicans have varying degrees of bacteriostatic effect, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus inhibitory obvious; in vitro there is a significant anti-women's private trichomonas effect. Alum via urethral instillation has a hemostatic effect; can also promote the healing of ulcers; purify turbid raw water.
3. Clinical research: It is reported that the use of alum or by the appropriate combination of treatment of impetigo, eczema, canker sores, tinea cruris, intractable oral ulcers, enteritis, dysentery, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, epilepsy, and other diseases, the efficacy of satisfactory. In recent years, it is also reported that: the application of saturated alum solution plus clamp withered hemorrhoids method (that is, saturated alum solution 1 ~ 3ml injected into the hemorrhoids submucosal vascular mass, about 2 ~ 3 minutes after the use of vascular pliers repeatedly clamp hemorrhoids, so that it becomes a thin slice), the treatment of hemorrhoids in 1097 cases, 787 cases of postoperative follow-up, the cure rate of 100% (Chinese Journal of Practical Integrative Medicine, 1999, 24: 2148); treatment of chronic hypertrophic rhinitis, will be 60% alumina. For the treatment of chronic hypertrophic rhinitis, 60% alum injection is injected into the hypertrophic mucosa of nasal turbinate, 0.2-0.3ml for each part, once in 5-6 days, 365 cases are observed, with an effective rate of 98.36% (Chinese Journal of Practical Chinese and Western Medicine, 1994, 2:75); 2% alum aqueous solution is autoclaved and then prepared for use, 300ml each time and dripped through nasoesophageal tube in 60-75 minutes, to treat varicose bleeding in 43 cases, with an effective rate of 100% (Chinese Journal of Practical Chinese and Western Medicine, 1999, 24:2148); for the treatment of esophageal Varicose vein bleeding 43 cases, the effective rate of 95.3% (comprehensive clinical medicine, 1994, 1:38). In addition, it can also prevent and control paddy field dermatitis, with the treatment of bedsores, burns, otitis media, foot sweating, urinary surgery bleeding, uterine prolapse, rectal prolapse, kidney stones, hyperlipidemia, viral hepatitis and so on.
4. Adverse reactions: alum concentrated solution has obvious irritation to the skin and mucous membranes, large doses of alum internal use can cause mouth, throat burns 'burns, vomiting and diarrhea, defecation and even death (Chinese Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1989, 2:42).
Efficacy
1, detoxification
Alum is sour and astringent and cold in nature, good at detoxification and killing of worms, collecting dampness and stopping itching, especially for the sores wet or itchy surface of the effect is excellent.
2, stop bleeding
Alum is astringent, can enter the liver meridian blood, there are astringent effect, can be used to treat a variety of bleeding. For example, blood in stool, epistaxis, leakage and so on.
3, astringent antidiarrheal
Alum is dry, acidic and astringent, has a certain astringent antidiarrheal effect, for the spleen and stomach yang deficiency, intestines and stomach is not solid caused by a long time diarrhea and long asphalt to relieve the effect is good.
4, dispel wind and phlegm
Alum sour bitter chung drain, can dispel wind and phlegm, for phlegm congestion of the heart, epilepsy and madness have a certain effect. In addition, alum is also able to wet yellow, to help treat damp-heat jaundice.
5, prevent foot fungus
Alum has the role of astringent pores, can reduce the secretion of sweat. A large amount of sweat secretion mixed with bacteria can easily cause foot odor, foot odor, the use of alum foot soak can reduce the secretion of sweat, to prevent foot odor, foot odor.
6, antibacterial
Alum has an antibacterial effect. For Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus pyogenes, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus anthracis, Dysentery bacillus, Typhoid bacillus, Paratyphoid bacillus, Aspergillus bacillus, Staphylococcus, Candida albicans and so on, there is a significant inhibitory effect, etc.