Alias: raw alum, alum, alum, mica alum.

Taboo population: yin deficiency with weak stomach, no damp heat, patients with acute enteritis and dysentery, the weak and pregnant women are not suitable for eating.

Suitable crowd: Schizophrenia, wind-phlegm hysteria, apoplexy, phlegm syncope, aphonia, hysteria and other patients with phlegm and saliva obstruction are suitable for eating; It is suitable for patients with gastric and duodenal ulcer, chronic enteritis, infectious hepatitis and pulmonary tuberculosis hemoptysis.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that alum has the effects of astringency, detoxification and disinfestation, eliminating dampness and relieving itching, stopping bleeding and diarrhea, clearing heat and eliminating phlegm. Recent studies have confirmed that alum also has antibacterial and trichomonas vaginalis effects. Some Chinese medicine practitioners use alum to treat hyperlipidemia, duodenal ulcer, tuberculosis and hemoptysis.

The efficacy of alum and the function of alum

It can be used for treating epilepsy, laryngitis, excessive salivation, hepatitis, jaundice, yellow swelling, sores on the mouth and tongue, hemorrhoids, scabies, water, fire, insect injury, gastric and duodenal ulcer, uterine prolapse, leucorrhea, diarrhea and epistaxis.

The main functions of alum are: stopping bleeding, detoxicating, killing insects, eliminating phlegm, eliminating dampness and stopping diarrhea.

1 theory of medicinal properties: treat rat leakage, scrofula, epistaxis, sore nose, pharynx and body fluid, and acute laryngitis.

2 "Introduction to Medicine": Treat ear-throats with swelling and pus, red eyes, swollen eyes, pterygium, sores on the mouth and tongue, swelling and bleeding of teeth, persistent and broken, acute throat wind obstruction, heart and lung irritation, excessive wind saliva, thirst and diarrhea.

3 "Don't record": In addition to fixing heat in the bone marrow, remove polyps in the nose.

It also treats snake, scorpion, vicious dog, wall mirror, donkey saliva and horse sweat.

4 《 Compendium 》: Spit phlegm and drink phosphorus, remove dampness and detoxify, chase saliva, stop bleeding and stop pain, eat bad meat, produce good meat, treat carbuncle and furuncle, malignant sore, epilepsy, jaundice, defecation, mouth, teeth and eyes, and all kinds of diseases, such as snakes, scorpions and snakes.

5 "Materia Medica": If the fire dries up to powder, it will stick to the ingrown nail, and the blood in the teeth will be like bleeding, the more it will stick.

6 "Materia Medica": no diarrhea, toothache, washing rectocele and astringent intestines.

Apply abscess to collect water.

7 "Compendium of Medical Forest": detoxify raw materials, and exercise raw muscles to remove water.

8 "Ben Jing": the main cold and heat diarrhea, white, yin erosion and malignant sores, eye pain, strong bones and teeth.

9 "Rihuazi Materia Medica": Eliminate wind and fatigue, eliminate phlegm and quench thirst, and store warm water.

Treat apoplectic aphonia and scabies.

And peach people, onion soup bath, can sweat

Dry alum

Dry alum, also known as calcined alum. Take the cleaned alum, put it in a casserole, heat and melt it, calcine it until it is dry, and take it out.

Characters are irregular crystals with different sizes. Colorless, transparent or translucent, the surface is slightly smooth or uneven, with fine longitudinal edges and glass-like luster. Hard and brittle, easy to smash. Slight breath, slightly sweet and astringent taste. It is better to be white, transparent, hard and brittle and free from impurities. Soluble in water or glycerol, insoluble in alcohol. The aqueous solution shows various reactions of aluminum salt, potassium salt and sulfate. Gansu, Anhui, Shanxi, Hubei, Zhejiang and other places.

Efficacy and functional indications of dried alum

Eliminating phlegm, eliminating dampness, stopping diarrhea, stopping bleeding, detoxifying and killing insects. Treat epilepsy, laryngitis, sore throat, hepatitis, jaundice, jaundice, gastric and duodenal ulcer, uterine prolapse, leucorrhea, diarrhea, epistaxis, sores on the mouth and tongue, hemorrhoids and scabies, water, fire and insect injuries.

(1) The Classic: "Treating cold and heat to relieve dysentery, leukorrhagia, yin erosion and malignant sores, eye pain, and strengthening bones and teeth."

② Bielu: "Eliminating heat in bone marrow and removing polyps in nose."

③ The Theory of Medicinal Properties: "Treat rat leakage, scrofula, epistaxis, sore nose, throat fluid and acute laryngitis."

4 "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Eliminate wind and fatigue, eliminate phlegm and quench thirst, and store warm water. Treat apoplectic aphonia and scabies. "Take a bath with peach people and onion soup, which will help you sweat."

⑤ "Materia Medica": "If the fire dries up to powder, it will stick to the ingrown nail, and the blood in the teeth will be like bleeding, the more it will stick."

⑥ "Herbal Medicine": "No defecation and diarrhea, toothache, washing the rectum and astringent intestines. Apply abscess to collect water. "

⑦ "Introduction to Medicine": "Treat ear-throats swollen with pus, red eyes, swollen eyes, pterygium, sores on the mouth and tongue, swelling and bleeding of teeth, prolonged crushing, acute throat wind obstruction, heart and lung irritation, excessive wind saliva, thirst and diarrhea. "It also treats poisonous injuries such as snakes and scorpions, vicious dogs, wall mirrors, donkey saliva and horse sweat."

⑧ Compendium: "Spit saliva and drink phosphorus, remove dampness and detoxify, chase saliva, stop bleeding and stop pain, eat bad meat, give birth to good meat, and treat carbuncle, furuncle, malignant sore, epilepsy, jaundice, defecation, mouth, teeth, eyes and eyes, tigers, dogs, snakes and scorpions."

Pet-name ruby "A Compendium of Medical Forest": "Use raw materials to detoxify, and use raw materials to generate muscles to remove water."

Administration and dosage: Take pills and powder, 0.2 1 money. External use: grind, sprinkle or apply.

pay attention to

Yin deficiency with weak stomach and no damp-heat should not be taken.

① Wupu Materia Medica: "Qibo: Taking it for a long time hurts people's bones."

(2) Notes on Materia Medica Classics: "Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch makes it. Ugly oysters. "

③ Theory of Medicinal Properties: "Fear of Ephedra."

④ "Materia Medica": "Don't take too much, it will damage the heart and lungs, but it will cause water."

⑤ "Herbal Classics": "Those who suffer from internal heat due to yin deficiency, burning water and causing sore throat should not contain this. "It is also not suitable for eyes with pain due to yin deficiency and blood heat."

⑥ "Herbal Words": "Diarrhea lasts for a long time, due to spleen and stomach qi deficiency; The woman is white, because the gas sinks; "It is not suitable for those who are cold and hot due to insufficient blood."

The dried alum comes from 6 grams of dried alum, 0.2 grams of borneol/kloc-0 and 0.5 grams of gallnut/kloc-0. Method * * * Grinding into fine powder. When it is used, it is disinfected according to the previous method, and then the powder is blown into the ear with a straw tube or a small paper tube, three times a day. Usage and Efficacy It is reported that 30 cases of acute and chronic suppurative otitis media were treated with this recipe, most of which 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 its neck, armpits, arms and skin folds with dried alum powder, and even the whole body skin, and then gently pat the whole body skin with pine pollen. Among them, dried alum powder is generally used for 10-20 days, while pine pollen can be used for a long time. If the newborn does not rub the skin with dried alum powder, as long as the child sweats a little, skin erosion will occur in the neck, armpit and perineum (especially in girls), but this phenomenon will not occur in children rubbed with dried alum powder.

blue stone vitriol

("The Essentials of Pinhui")

Different names of Shidan, Bishi, Junshi (Classic), Blackstone, Tongle (Wupu Materia Medica), Cornerstone (Bielu), Lishi (Tao Hongjing), Shiye, Zhishi Concentrate (Shiyao Erya), Duckbill Danfan (Jisheng Fang), Cuidan Alum (Cuidan).

Processing, removing impurities and grinding into small pieces.

The taste is sour and pungent, cold and toxic.

① Classic: "Sour taste, cold."

② Wupu Materia Medica: "Shennong: Sour, slight cold. Li: Great cold. Tong Jun: Xin, it's poisonous. Bian Que: Bitter, nontoxic. "

③ Theory of Medicinal Properties: "There is great poison."

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "It tastes sour and bitter, and it is very poisonous."

Meridian entering the liver and gallbladder.

① Compendium: "Enter the gallbladder meridian of shaoyang."

② Drug Meaning: "Entering the liver and gallbladder."

Functions are mainly used to induce vomiting, remove rot and detoxify. Treat wind-phlegm congestion, laryngitis, epilepsy, odontopathy, aphtha, wind eye, hemorrhoid and toxic swelling.

(1) The Classic: "Dominating eyesight, eye pain, golden sores, various seizures and spasms, women's vaginal erosion pain, stranguria, cold and heat, bleeding in the abdomen, and toxic gas of various evils."

(2) Bielu: "Dispelling symptoms, coughing up qi, and rat fistula and malignant sores."

③ "Theory of Medicinal Properties": "Breaking heat and toxin."

④ Herbal Medicine of Tang Dynasty: "The blood in the main body is red and white, the face is yellow, and the woman is dirty and cold."

⑤ "Japanese Materia Medica": "Treating teeth and nasal polyps."

⑥ "Materia Medica": "Spit wind and phlegm."

⑦ "Herbal Medicine": "Cure throat moth poison."

⑧ Materia Medica Huiyan: "Eliminate laryngitis, treat tooth and gum rot."

Pet-name ruby medicine solution: "Treat foot gangrene, hemorrhoids and fistula, Myrica rubra, golden sore, vitiligo, all kinds of swelling and pain, leukorrhagia, leukorrhagia, upper qi, sore eyes and rotten strings, mad dog.

Bite, insect in the ear, underarm body odor. "

Attending "Compilation of Medical Forest": "Promoting liver wind, purging liver fire, astringing lung qi, clearing away lung evil, also nourishing the heart, softening and removing toxin. The function is similar to alum. "

Usage and dosage for oral administration: take pills and powder, 1 2 points. External use: grind, sprinkle or apply, or dissolve in water to wash eyes.

It is advisable to avoid physical weakness and avoid clothing.

① Notes on Materia Medica Classics: "Shui Ying made it. "I'm afraid of Osmanthus fragrans, Osmanthus fragrans, Daphne genkwa, Flos Magnoliae and Cynanchum atratum."

② Theory of Medicinal Properties: "Lu Ying is the ambassador."

Prescription ① Treatment of throat wind and acute laryngitis: Duckbill Bile Alum is two and a half dollars, and Bombyx Batryticatus (fried and shredded) is half a cent. The top is fine at the end. Take a little each time, with bamboo

The tube is blown into the throat. ("Jisheng Fang" Ersheng San)

② Treatment of aphtha, laryngitis and moth: one dollar for bile alum, one dollar for bear bile and three points for costustoot. Pass it as fine powder, take one momordica seed, shell it, grind well water,

Dip goose feathers in medicine. ("The Wonderful Recipe of Taking Life")

③ Treat junior middle school wind paralysis, and within one day: study gall-stone alum like noodles. Every time you make a word, use warm vinegar soup and spit immediately. (Tan's Xiaoer Prescription)

④ Treatment of odontopathy: five points for Rhizoma picrorhizae, five points for choleric alum and five points for catechu. For the last application. ("Shen Shi Zunsheng Book" Danfan Powder)

⑤ Treatment of tinea pedis: remove the core from one piece of Zizyphus jujuba, put it in duck-billed bile alum, wrap it in paper, make it toxic by fire, grind it and apply it at the end. ("Simple Unilateral")

⑥ Treating sores on the mouth and tongue: one point for bile alum and one point for dried toad. * * * research is the end. Take each adzuki bean, mix it on the sore for a long time, and rinse your mouth with five liters of fresh water.

, water is the best. ("Shenghuifang")

⑦ Treatment of children's nasal abscess erosion: the bile alum is burnt out and mixed at the end of research. ("Simple Prescription of Lakeside Collection")

⑧ Cure the red and rotten eye of the wind: San Qian with bile alum. Burn and grind, soak and wash every day. ("experience prescription for improving eyesight")

Pet-name ruby treatment of hemorrhoid heat swelling: duck-billed blue bile alum (calcined, grinded), honey and water. ("Ren Zhai Zhi Fang")

Attending to cure swelling and poison: a little of gall alum and bird excrement, and point it. ("Ren Zhai Zhi Fang")

⑾ Treatment of onychomycosis and pain, purulent blood: half a ounce of stone gall, calcined and finely ground, applied to the sore, two or three degrees a day. ("Sheng Ji Zong Lu" Shidan San)

⑿ Treatment of wind dog bite poison: apply it at the end of bile alum. ("Ji Ji Xian Fang")

[13] Cure all insects in the ear: fill it with minced gallstone and vinegar. (Qian Jin Fang)

Famous experts discuss ① "Compendium": "Lithocarpus, with its upward convergence, can flood wind and heat, phlegm and saliva, disperse wind and wood, and kill insects, so it cures the throat.

The poison of oral and dental ulcers is also amazing. "

(2) Materia Medica: "Lou Quanshan has a cloud: throat obstruction and aversion to cold are all caused by cold breaking into heat, cold is confined to the outside, and heat is depressed in the inside. Don't touch the throat with drugs such as bile alum and sour cold, which will make the yang depressed and not stretch, which will lead to drama. If so, this taste is suitable for throat obstruction and throat wind, which is to treat the arthralgia of yin failing to store yang, and is for wind lewdness, and belongs to throat arthralgia that does not hate cold. What is not suitable for it is to cure the arthralgia of yang failing to reach yin, which is due to wind deficiency, which is the throat arthralgia of aversion to cold, and it is also the so-called "avoiding everything" that is all good. When this flavor is covered, it can disperse wind and wood and fire, so it can treat wind phlegm and throat obstruction and mouse leakage, which are both caused by fire and fire. For example, the throat obstruction caused by aversion to cold is due to stagnation of heat, which is not a fire. It is advisable to eliminate yin and extend yang, but not to collect yang to help yin. "Those who administer the medicine will be reckless."

Alumen

Also known as Golden Line Alumen ("Herbal Medicine of Haiyao") and Chicken Vector Alumen ("Herbal Medicine").

The medicinal part is the sulfate mineral jarosite.

Functional indication

Treat hemorrhoids, hemorrhoids and scabies.

(1) Herbal Medicine of Tang Dynasty: "Cure sores and raw meat."

② Materia Medica of Seafood: "Main pheasant fistula, hemorrhoids, scabies and other diseases."

③ Li Gao: "Treating toothache caused by wind-heat in Yangming."

usage and dosage

External use: calcine, grind, sprinkle or apply. Oral administration: into pills.

Party selection

① Treatment of hemorrhoid and fistula with swelling and pain, purulent blood is not limited to: three ounces of alum, six ounces of black snake (soaked in wine, stripped of bones and skins, roasted to make it yellow), three ounces of radix astragali (filed), two ounces of bitter orange (parched with bran, stripped of flesh), and three halves of camel's chest hair (burned with ash). The medicine is smashed into powder, and the honey is refined and smashed for three or two hundred pestles. The pills are as big as buttonwood. Every time before eating, decoct Radix Astragali decoction and take 20 pills. ("Shenghuifang" Gongwan Huang)

(2) Treatment of purulent discharge from children's ears: half a piece of alum, one piece of squid bones and one piece of coptis root (beard removal). The medicine is smashed to the end, and the cotton is wrapped as big as a jujube pit, and it is easy to be stuffed in the ear. ("Shenghui Fang" Huangfan Powder)

(3) Treating women's cheek sores, which recur every year after the sores: two or two pieces of alum stone (burning the juice), one or two pieces of beard powder, and one and a half pieces of mercury. Sieve the alum stone, and the beard powder is more sieved. First, make pig fat with a slice, heat grind the mercury in the porcelain to make it disappear, make the pig fat more, and make the alum stone and beard powder sticky, so as to apply it to wash the face, and don't boil the beard powder to yellow, and then apply the paste, then thin the powder. ("Filling the back of the elbow")

④ Treatment of acute furuncle, tooth fracture, bad and rotten lips and swelling: alum, melanterite, alum (until the juice is completely burned), white dog dung ash, wild grass, realgar (finely ground) each half, lithospermum (finely ground), scopolamine (fried to black), dried earthworm (slightly fried), human dung ash each half, and musk one dollar. The medicine is smashed to the end, and all of them are grinded evenly. Rinse your mouth with salt slurry for three or two times first, then light it on the top and use it three times a day. Do not swallow if you have saliva. ("Shenghui Fang" Huangfan Powder)

⑤ Treatment of jealous acne: alum, melanterite and musk. Divide the three flavors equally, which is the end, and apply it after urinating, but it is three degrees. (Qian Jin Fang)

green vitriol

Efficacy: eliminating dampness and phlegm, eliminating food stagnation and killing insects, stopping bleeding and enriching blood, detoxifying and healing sores.

Main treatment: treatment of yellow swelling, chronic dysentery, intestinal wind and bloody stool, blood deficiency and chlorosis, wet sores and scabies, sore throat and aphtha, rotten string and wind eye.

Tropism of nature and taste: sour and cool. ① "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Cool, nontoxic." (2) Essence of Pinhui: "Sour in taste, cold in nature and nontoxic." 3 "Materia Medica Rejuvenation": "It tastes sour and astringent, cool and toxic." Entering lung, liver, spleen and large intestine

Administration and dosage: oral administration: pills and powder, 0.5 1.5 RMB. External use: grind, spread or apply, or wash the solution.

Avoid medication: taking too much can cause vomiting and abdominal pain, and the weak stomach should take it with caution. 1 "Compendium": "Fear of vinegar." ② "Herbal Classics": "People have diarrhea, and people with weak stomachs should not use it more."

Other names: melanterite (Tang Ben Cao), Gleditsia sinensis (Liu Yuxi's Chuan Xin Fang) and Gleditsia sinensis (Puji Fang).

Prescription name: raw soapstone such as saponite, melanterite, copperas, raw soapstone and calcined soapstone are used as raw medicines. It is irritating to the stomach and intestines, and is generally not used for oral administration. In the prescription, saponite, melanterite and copperas all refer to calcined saponite. Put the original medicine into an iron pot, heat it until it melts, dig a hole in the middle when it is dry, pour rice vinegar in the heat when it is red at the four sides and the middle, mix thoroughly and bake it, and take it out and let it cool.

Trade names: melanterite, melanterite, green melanterite. It is better to be clean and free of impurities.

Distribution of animal and plant resources: It often occurs in cracks rich in pyrite semi-decomposed ore below the oxidation zone. Shandong, Hunan, Gansu, Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, Henan and other places.

Collection and storage of medicinal materials: after collection, impurities are removed. It should be stored tightly to prevent discoloration or moisture.

Latin name: Melanterite

Processing method: Calcined copperas (also known as crimson copperas and alum red): put copperas and rice vinegar in a casserole, cover them, and put them on a charcoal stove for calcination. When the copperas are dissolved, stir them evenly with bamboo slices to fully mix the copperas and vinegar, then heat them and calcine them until they are all crimson, and then take them out and let them cool. (For each calcined copperas 100 kg, use 20 kg of rice vinegar)

Textual research: from "Rihuazi Materia Medica". (1) "Herbal Medicine of Tang Dynasty": "Crimson alum, which was originally green, is like glazed glass when it comes out of the cave without wind. Tao and modern people call it stone gall, which burns red, hence the name crimson alum. Out of Guazhou. " ② "Materia Medica": "Fanshi was born in Hexi Valley and Shimen in Wudu, Longxi. Today, Alum is the Wuwei Army in Cizhou, Jinzhou, and Green Alum is in Wenquan County, Jizhou, Tongling County, Chizhou, and the alum is fried. Every newborn is a stone, which is broken and refined. The shape of green alum is simple and green. It is true to take this thing and put it on an iron plate, gather charcoal and seal the bag. When the fire is blown, the alum will boil and flow out, and the color is as red as gold juice. There is also Gleditsia alum used as medicine, or there is green alum in the clouds, which is used by Chuanxinfang to treat laryngeal obstruction. " 3 "Compendium": "Green alum can be dyed with soap color, so it is called soap alum. There is also black alum, also known as soap alum, which is unbearable to eat, but it is used at home for sores. Those who burn red want to be named Fanhong, so as not to be vermilion. " "Green alum, JinDi Hanoi, xi' an sand states are out. The shape is like a flame. Among them, the person who picks out the deep blue is melanterite, and when it turns red after calcination, it is crimson alum. "

1 Records of Modern Practical Chinese Medicine: A small amount of copperas can replenish blood, be used for anemia and chlorosis, and treat gastrointestinal bleeding, and be used as pills together with other drugs.

Use a lot of raw materials as emetic.

For external use, it can cure conjunctivitis, tinea alba, pustules, bromhidrosis, etc. It is a thin liquid of this product, which has astringent effect.

2 "Introduction to Medicine" records: Alumen eliminates edema and jaundice, infantile malnutrition, and cures nail gangrene and swelling.

3 "Tang Materia Medica" records: Green alum cures malnutrition and sores.

4 "Compendium" records: Alumen eliminates stagnation, dries spleen and dampness, eliminates phlegm and saliva, and eliminates swelling, malaria, wind eye and tongue diseases.

5 "Rihuazi Materia Medica" records: Chlorite treats laryngitis, bell teeth, aphtha and malignant sores, and scabies; Brewing crucian carp and burning ash kimono to treat intestinal wind and diarrhea.

6 "The True Story of Medicine" records: Curing jaundice with copperas: