Glauber's salt, also known as Glauber's salt, Glauber's salt, horse's salt, salt salt, and basin salt, is a crystal that is processed and refined from a widely distributed sulfate mineral. It is formed in sodium-containing minerals. ions and sulfate ions in saturated solutions in inland salt lakes. But what are the effects of Glauber's salt? What are the functions of Glauber's salt? Dear, you must also want to know. So let's read on together ^_^ Effects of Glauber's Salt:

Ingredients: Mainly contains sodium sulfate (Na2 SO4.10 H2O). In addition, it is often mixed with various substances such as salt, calcium sulfate, magnesium sulfate, etc. Mangxiao easily loses water in the atmosphere, so its surface is often white powdery; the sodium sulfate content of such weathered Mangxiao can exceed 44.1{bf}.

Nature and flavor: salty, bitter, cold.

Meridian return: stomach meridian; lung meridian; spleen meridian; kidney meridian; small intestine meridian; triple burner meridian; large intestine meridian.

Effects: purging heat and laxative, moistening dryness and softening hardness, clearing fire and reducing swelling. It is used for constipation due to excessive heat, dry and knotted stools, abdominal pain due to stagnation, and intestinal carbuncle swelling and pain; external treatment of mastitis and hemorrhoid swelling and pain. Functions of Glauber's Salt:

1. Pharmacological effects:

1. Purgative effect: Glauber's Salt is sodium sulfate containing impurities, while Xuanming Powder is pure sodium sulfate. Sulfate ions are not easily absorbed by the intestinal mucosa and remain in the intestine to form a hypertonic solution, which increases intestinal water, causes mechanical stimulation, and promotes intestinal peristalsis. Salts also have a chemical irritating effect on the intestinal mucosa, but do not damage the intestinal mucosa. When an overly concentrated solution reaches the duodenum, it can cause pylorus spasm, thereby delaying the emptying of all the drugs from the stomach. At the same time, it can suck the water in the tissue into the intestines, so you should drink a lot of water to dilute it when taking it. Diarrhea will occur 4-6 hours after taking it, and fluid feces will be excreted. If used to treat tissue edema, drink less water.

2. Reduce appendiceal inflammation: In rabbits with experimental appendicitis and appendiceal perforation, external application of a paste of rhubarb, manganese, garlic and appropriate amount of vinegar on the abdomen has a significant effect on the reticuloendothelial system of the appendix and spleen. The stimulating effect increased the proliferation phenomenon and phagocytosis ability, and the appendix inflammation was significantly reduced compared with the control group.

3. Cause intestinal nerve reflex: When normal rabbits apply Garlic Mango paste externally on the right lower abdomen, the local skin will have irritating symptoms such as fever, redness, and blisters, and the small intestine, appendix, and pouch colon will move. Enhanced; after local ring sealing with 1{bf} procaine, intestinal movement was weakened. Therefore, its effects are caused by neural reflexes. Due to enhanced peristalsis, abundant blood supply, and enhanced phagocytosis function of the reticuloendothelial system, the body's inherent disease resistance is mobilized.

4. Reduce swelling and relieve pain: Apply 10-25{bf} sodium sulfate solution externally to infectious wounds, which can accelerate lymph production and have the effects of reducing swelling and pain relief.

5. Diuretic effect: 4.3 Intravenous infusion of {bf} sodium sulfate sterile solution can be used as a diuretic to treat anuria and uremia.

2. Clinical application:

1. Bone steaming fever (note: tuberculosis). Use Glauber's Salt powder, one teaspoon per serving. Take it twice a day.

2. A lump in the abdomen. Use 50 grams of saltpeter, one garlic, and eight minutes of minced rhubarb, pound it into a cake, and apply it to the affected area until the lumps are gone.

3. Obstruction of urine and feces, bloated to the point of death. Use 150 grams of Glauber's salt, soak it in one liter of boiling water, and drink it. It will heal if it causes vomiting.

4. Inability to urinate. Use 15 grams of Glauber's salt and fennel.

5. Both eyes are red and swollen. Steam the tofu with Glauber's salt powder, then take the juice and apply it on the eyes.

6. Red and rotten eyelids. Steam the Glauber's Salt with water, leave it overnight, and then filter. Wash eyes with clear solution. Even if it takes a long time, the patient can be cured.

7. Reduce shading and improve eyesight. Take the Glauber's Salt and wrap it tightly in thick paper, put it in your arms, stick it to the meat and keep it for 120 days. Take it out and grind it finely, and add a little borneol. Eyes. As long as the pupils are not broken, even if the obstruction lasts for many years, it can be dissipated. This prescription is called "White Dragon Powder". Another recipe: Dissolve 500 grams of Glauber's Salt in hot water and filter. The remaining juice is boiled in an earthen pot and left to dry overnight. Add 50 grams of red lead (fried in water), 0.25 grams of musk, and a little more brains. Eye drops every day.

8. Toothache. Fry the honey locust into a thick juice, add the honey locust and fry it. Pour it on a stone, wait until it forms frost, and then scrape it off your teeth.

9. Sore throat, swelling and pain. Take 50 grams of saltpeter and swallow it carefully in portions, it is effective. Or you can add cinnabar for one penny. If you feel blocked, add 10 grams of raw licorice powder and blow it into the throat.

10. Sores on the mouth and tongue. Put it in your mouth with nitrate.

11. Oral thrush in children. Rub your tongue with Glauber's salt five times a day.

12. Peas (red and black, but not yet pus). Coat with pig bile and Glauber's salt powder.

13. Finger swelling and pain. Soak your fingers in Glauber's salt water.

14. Rubella and paint sores. Try applying Glauber's salt in water.

15. Dystocia. Use 10 grams of Glauber's salt and give it to Hot Boy.

16. Stillbirth. The treatment method is the same as above.

17. Apply Glauber's Salt on both breasts to help reduce swelling during weaning. Precautions for Glauber's Salt:

Medication contraindications:

1. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and pregnant women should not take it.

2. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Shi Wei was the envoy. Afraid of wheat and ginger.

3. "Pinhui Essence": Do not take this product during pregnancy.

4. Do not use it if there is no excess heat in the stomach or dry stool in the intestines. Do not take it if there is edema or senile constipation. Expansion of knowledge about Glauber's salt:

Identification of Glauber's salt, saltpeter and borax:

1. Differences in efficacy:

1. Glauber's salt: its nature and taste are salty, bitter and cold. It has the effects of purging heat and laxative, moistening dryness and softening hardness, clearing fire and reducing swelling. It is clinically used for symptoms such as excessive heat accumulation, dry stools, and intestinal abscesses and pain.

2. Saltpeter: Its nature and taste are bitter, warm and poisonous. It has the functions of moistening dryness, softening hardness and relieving stranguria. Clinically used for the symptoms of heat accumulation in the five internal organs, gastrointestinal constipation, cholera, and scrofula.

3. Borax: Its nature and taste are sweet, salty and cool. It has the effects of clearing away heat, eliminating phlegm, detoxifying and antiseptic. It is clinically used for the symptoms of sore throat, sores on the mouth and tongue, red eyes, bone obstruction, choking, and cough with thick phlegm.

2. Differences in properties:

1. Glauber's Salt: Derived from the sulfate mineral Glauber's Salt, the crude product of this medicinal material is called "Pi's Salt" or "Pak's Salt", and the crude product is The crystals separated by purification of fresh radish are called Glauber's salt. After the crystallization of Glauber's salt is weathered and dried, the medicinal material is called Xuanming powder. Glauber's salt medicinal material is rhombus-shaped, rectangular or irregularly crystallized, with uneven ends, colorless and transparent or almost white and translucent, brittle and fragile, with a glass-like luster in its cross-section, odorless, and a salty and slightly bitter taste. Xuanming powder is a white powder, the same as Glauber's salt.

2. Saltpeter: Also known as fire saltpeter and horse tooth saltpeter, it is processed and refined from the mineral saltpeter. This product is a colorless, transparent hexagonal rhomboidal short columnar crystal, or a white crystalline powder. If it contains more impurities, it will appear light gray or yellow. It is brittle and fragile. Its cross section has a glass-like luster. It is odorless, salty, and Slightly bitter, with a tongue-piercing sensation.

3. Borax: Also known as moonstone, it is a refined crystal of the mineral borax. The medicinal materials are rhombus-shaped, columnar or granular crystals, colorless and transparent or white translucent, with a glass-like luster. They are easily weathered into white powder when exposed to the air for a long time. They are brittle and brittle, odorless, and taste slightly sweet and salty.

3. Application and identification:

1. If the salt is clear, the coarser one will be eliminated, and the quality will be heavy and turbid. Glauber's salt is the substance that forms on the teeth and eliminates the essence. Its quality is clear and bright. Sweet saltpeter, weathered saltpeter, then Glauber's salt, tooth salt which removes the smell and is sweet, slow and refreshing. Therefore, saltpeter can be applied to the medicine for application. If the bait is taken as a decoction, thenardite is necessary, and tooth salt is better.

2. Rhubarb and Glauber's salt are both bitter and cold medicines. When entered into the Yangming meridian, they can cleanse the stagnant heat in the gastrointestinal tract and are the key medicines for Yangming fu-organ syndrome. Must be used regularly. However, the difference is that rhubarb tends to attack, and can be used for stagnant diarrhea and diarrhea. Glauber's salt tends to moisturize, softening and dispersing stagnation, and defends but does not move, so it is contraindicated for patients with dysentery.