Serpentine

Serpentine

(compendium)

Another name is snake yellow.

[source] nodules of limonite, an oxide mineral.

[collection] remove soil impurities after harvest.

[medicinal material] it is oval or irregular oblong in shape with different sizes and 0.7-3 cm in diameter. Yellowish brown or dark brown, rough and uneven surface, covered with a layer of powder, hand dyed into yellowish brown. It is hard and hard to break. The cross section is yellowish white with metallic luster, which is very similar to natural copper. Some cross sections are yellowish white with metallic luster (Pyrite) in the center, dark brown or dark yellowish brown in the edge, and yellowish brown in the outermost layer with silty (limonite). The air is weak and the taste is light. Iron yellow, round and strong constitution are the best.

Produced in Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places.

[chemical composition] is hydrous ferric oxide. Most of them are impure in quality, with no definite water content, and often mixed with sand, clay, manganese, phosphorus, calcium, vanadium, etc.

[processing] wash the soil and smash it into small pieces.

"Rihuazi Materia Medica": "burn red three or four times, vinegar quenching, fly research with it. "

Sweet and cold.

① "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "cold, nontoxic. "

② In the book of Ben Jing Feng Yuan: "slight poison. "

③ "Records of traditional Chinese medicine": "sweet, cold. "

④ "Medicine science": "the nature is flat, the taste is pungent. "

[Guijing] "Ben Jing Feng Bian" says: "start with, foot Jueyin blood points. "

[function indications] tranquilize the nerves and calm the nerves, stop bleeding and relieve pain. Treatment of palpitation, convulsion, intestinal dysentery, heartache, Kaschin ache.

① "Tang Materia Medica": "master heart pain, disobedience, stone drenching, dystocia, infantile convulsion. "

② Rihuazi's materia medica: "Zhenxin. "

③ Compendium: "grinding juice and smearing swelling poison. "

④ "Zhenjing Zhitong" is a traditional Chinese medicine record. It is used to treat convulsion, epilepsy and Kaschin Beck pain. "

⑤ "Medicine science": "tranquilize the mind, treat convulsions, convulsions and blood dysentery for a long time. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-3 Qian; or into pills, powder. External use: grind and apply.

To treat the palpitation of the snake, two kinds of wine were used. The three flavors are well balanced, with half a dollar for each, and less peppermint soup. Take after eating and at night. (Ben Cao Yan Yi)

② The treatment of wind epilepsy, regardless of age, and is the accumulation of hot wind phlegm attack the heart: snake yellow small 20 pieces, mixed with mistletoe juice, into the fire to make red, take out, in the clean ground after a night out of fire poison, fine research such as noodles; also with a Dog Gall, take juice phase, millet rice and pills, such as mung bean big. After three or five days, spit out evil phlegm and saliva. (Sheng Hui Fang)

③ For the treatment of infantile convulsion and epilepsy, it is called trance because of the shock and terror: snake yellow three (the real one, calcined and vinegar quenched), Curcuma seven (one for the end), musk one word. On the end, rice balls Tongzi big. Take one or two pills each time, fry gold and silver, grind knife, and hydrate. (Shehuang pill in Zhijue of pediatric medicine syndrome)

④ Treatment of intestinal wind blood: snake yellow two, calcined, vinegar quenched seven times, pound grind such as noodles. Take three money daggers each time. Drink the rice and take it before eating. (Shehuang powder in Shengji Zonglu)

"The snake contains stone, which is not far from the nature of Dai Zhe. It is an important medicine for treating convulsion and epilepsy in children. It is suitable for patients with spleen wind diarrhea. "