Ash wood

Ash wood

(Kaibao materia medica)

Another name is ashless wood.

[source] amphibole asbestos, a silicate mineral.

Hornblende asbestos

A kind of hornblende. It is a long, parallel and easily cleaved filament like material. The fiber is usually perpendicular to the vein wall. It is white, gray or greenish, glossy, filiform, slightly transparent to opaque. The fiber is elastic. Chemical property is not active, with acid resistance, alkali resistance and heat resistance. It's a bad conductor of heat and electricity. It is decomposed from actinolite.

Sweet and cold.

① Kaibao materia medica: "great cold. "

② "Pinhuijingyao": "the taste is light and the nature is cold. "

③ "Gangmu": "sweet, cold, non-toxic. "

[function indications] heat clearing, antipyretic, diuretic. Treatment of lung heat cough, sore throat, febrile Yang Jue, adverse urination, heat sores.

① "Kaibao Materia Medica": "it is mainly used for heat rash, and jujube leaf and lime powder is applied to the body. "

② "Compendium": "except febrile Yang Jue. "

③ Mineral medicine and pill: "diuresis. It's not good for urination. "

[usage and dosage] take orally: take pills and powder, 0.5 ~ 1 yuan. External use: grind and sprinkle.

[prescription selection] ① for latent heat of lung meridian and cough at night: half liang of tiannanxing (boiled with alum water, cut and baked), two liang of Taiyin xuanjing stone (ground), half liang of licorice (roasted and filed), one or two of Fritillaria (heart removed), one or two of ash wood. On the five flavors, grind and pound very fine. Take half a coin dagger each time, fry ginger and black plum soup, and take it at night after eating. (Wufen powder)

② Treatment of hand and foot upset heat, choking, sore throat: Zhenzhu end of a money dagger, Taiyin xuanjing stone (calcined red, research end) 42, buhuimu (with cow dung burning also, take end) 42. On the three flavor, with the research even fine, with glutinous rice porridge for the ball, such as chicken head big. Take one pill each time. Use Rehmannia glutinosa juice and corn swill after eating for two days. (Zhenzhu pill)

③ To treat cholera, the heart and abdomen are full of Qi, or the stomach is upset and vomit, and the hands and feet are cold: yangqishi (calcined, studied), buhuimu (studied), ferula (studied) each half two, Croton (peeled, pericardium, not oil) 25 tablets. On the five flavors, pound for fine powder, soft millet rice balls such as cherry big. For each pill, put on one eye first. When you want to take it, burn up the smoke on the lamp, cool as the end, and drink ginger and rice to make it more convenient. (Jinzhen pill, prescription 1, Shengji Zonglu)

④ Treatment of Yin poison: Oyster (SHAO). Buhuimu (SHAO), Liangjiang (Chao), Chuanwu (PAO), Baishao each one money, a little musk. On the fine end. For every dollar spent, the external kidney should be smeared for male diseases, and the breast should be smeared for female diseases. (Huiyang pill in Yuji Weiyi)