White snail shell

(compendium)

White shell (behind the elbow).

[source] it is the old shell of Bellamya quadrata or the same genus. For animal morphology, please refer to the "snail" section.

[collection] collect the aged white ones in the dilapidated walls and the places where the shells are piled up, and wash them and dry them in the sun.

[medicinal material] it is conic in shape, with spiral layer of Grade 7, edges at all levels, and no obvious transverse and oblique lines. The shell mouth is crooked and oval. The cuticle outside the shell has disappeared, so it is grayish white. It's light and brittle. There is no breath, and the taste is light. Chen Jiuse white, shell top not broken is better.

Produced in Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places.

[processing] white snail shell: wash, dry and grind into pieces. Take out the shell of the shell, grind it to the bottom, and take it out.

[flavor] sweet and light, flat.

① "Gangmu": "sweet, cold, non-toxic. "

② "Yinpianxinshen": "light, flat. "

[function indications] resolving phlegm, dispersing knots, relieving pain and accumulating sores. Treatment of heat, phlegm, cough, nausea, stomachache, acid vomiting, scrofula, ulcer, soup fire injury.

① Zhu Zhenheng: "the treatment of phlegm accumulation and epigastric pain. "

② "Gangmu": "treatment of nausea, diaphragmatic Qi, phlegm cough, nasopharynx, anal prolapse, hemorrhoids, sores, chancre, soup fire injury. "

③ "Yinpian Xinshen):" heat phlegm, diaphragmatic Qi pain, diuretic heat. "

④ "Modern practical Chinese medicine": "treatment of stomachache and excessive gastric acid. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: Yanmo, 1-3 yuan; or into pills. External use: grind the end to scatter or adjust to apply.

[selection of prescriptions] 1. Cough for stroke: white snail or white clam shell, mashed as the end, wine and square inch dagger. (behind the elbow)

② Treatment of dampness, phlegm and heartache: white snail shell to sand, fire calcination for fine powder, each serving square inch dagger, warm wine adjustment. (true story of Medicine)

③ Treatment of diaphragmatic gas pain: Chen white snail burn research, each take a money, wine. (white jade powder in the compendium)

④ Treatment of lung has been scattered: white snail shell for the end of the day application. (on yeweng's prescription)

⑤ Treatment of sores and dampness: the shell of white snail can be burned by fire. It can be broken, and the soil inside the shell can be removed. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

⑥ Treatment of soup fire sore: years of dry white snail shell calcination research, oil transfer application. (Tan Liao Fang)

⑦ Cure bayberry sore rotten: snail shell, cinnabar, etc., a little piece of brain, for the end of the liniment. (compendium)

⑧ Treatment chancre Yin head sores: white snail shell is not much, fire calcined crisp for the end, fly in the water, to earth and stone coarse, the second use, with the amount into the medicine, each use a little, dry paste on the sores. Silver powder