Human nail

Human nail

(Ben Cao Yan Yi)

[alias] claw beetle (rihuazi materia medica), rentui (Yanke Longmu Lun), Jintui (compendium).

[processing] wash with alkali water or Gleditsia sinensis water and dry in the sun. Or stir fry with talc powder in the pot until the nails are yellow. Remove the talc powder, cool and grind.

[flavor] sweet and salty, flat.

① Rihuazi materia medica: "Ping. "

② "Materia medica Mengyao": "sweet and salty, non-toxic. "

③ Yilin zuanyao: "salty, warm. "

[function indications] it is used to treat epistaxis, hematuria, laryngeal moth, eye diseases, and otitis media.

① In the collection of materia medica: "take the details and put them in the middle of your eyes to remove the obstacles.". "

② According to Ben Cao Yan Yi, "for the treatment of epistaxis, it is necessary to scrape it carefully. When the blood is slightly settled, remove the blood stasis and twitch it in the nose. "

③ "Broken injury compendium". "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: pills and powder. External use: grind the end point eyes, twitch nose, blow ear.

[selection of prescriptions] ① for women with unexplained urination blood: claw nail, disorderly hair. On the two flavors, and burn the powder, equal, wine service square inch dagger, three days, drink service also get. (Qian Jin Fang)

② Treatment of breast moth: no matter how many claw beetles (calcined for the end), Pengsha, alum each one money, xiniuhuang one point, Wumei, Baimei meat each five. A total of ramming such as mud, containing a large pill, phlegm fire gushing out, (Continued) three or four pills (Times). (Ben Jing Feng Yuan)

③ Treatment of eye tube: claw nail (burnt ash), shell tooth (burnt ash), keel each half two, medicine, with research order is very fine, each with a little, point bead tube, three or four degrees a day. (Sheng Hui Fang Bei Chi SAN)

④ For the treatment of tetanus, those who have lost their hands and feet constantly are: six dollars for human hands and feet nails (burning no tobacco), two dollars for cinnabar (bieyan), two dollars for Nanxing (ginger) and two dollars for Duhuo (peeling). The upper part is fine. Divide it into three parts and take it with wine. (Puji Fang)

⑤ Treatment of abdominal distension: burn nail polish, drink on the nipple. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑥ Treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media: human nails (calcined), borneol a little. A total of fine powder grinding. When using, first clean the ear canal, then blow powder. (compendium of simple prescriptions of herbal medicine)

[clinical application] for the treatment of "chicken claw wind"

This disease is similar to tetany in modern medicine. It is mostly caused by the decrease of blood calcium. It is common in postpartum lactating women or infants. Take 2 yuan of nail, wash and dry in the shade, bake on the tile, and grind it into fine powder with 2 liang of yellow rice wine. If necessary, take it again.