Limulus shell

Limulus shell

(notes on materia medica)

[synonym] horseshoe crab shell (shenghuifang), horseshoe crab shell (Quanzhou materia medica).

[source] it is the shell of Tachypleus orientalis, which belongs to tachypleus amebocyte lysate family.

[function indications] it is used to treat cough, traumatic injury, wound bleeding and scald.

① "The compendium of Medical Sciences" says: "to treat cough for years. "

② "Seeking the source of Materia Medica": "shell ash, oil, seed sore. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: calcine xingyanmo or put it into pills. External use: apply at the end of the research.

[prescription selection] 1. For cough, those who have been coughing in the throat for many years: half a liang of horseshoe crab shell, one cent of pig tooth Gleditsia (removing black skin, crispy and scorched yellow, removing seeds), one cent of Fritillaria (simmering yellowish), one cent of Platycodon grandiflorum (removing rutou). Pound Luo for the end, refining honey and pills, such as small marble big. Each containing a pill, spin its juice, take three pills that spit out evil saliva. (Sheng Hui Fang)

② Treatment of traumatic injury pain: Chen tachypleus amebocyte lysate, burn ash, soak wine.

③ Treatment of wound bleeding: tachypleus amebocyte lysate, calcination for the end of the wound.

④ Treatment of fire injury in Decoction: calcine tachypleus amebocyte lysate and apply tea oil to the affected area. (2) Quanzhou materia medica