Mercury

Mercury

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] Bai Shu (Huainanzi), maiden (shentongqi), mercury (bielu), lead essence, Liuzhu, chihg, shahg (Shiyao Erya), Lingye (compendium), Huobao (collection of medicinal materials).

[source] a liquid metal. It is mainly refined from cinnabar ore and a few from natural mercury.

[mineral morphology] ① cinnabar, see "cinnabar" for details.

② Mercury

It is a silver white liquid bead at room temperature. It forms an equiaxed octahedron at - 39 ℃ and evaporates into gas at 350 ℃. The striation of solid is silver white with bright metallic luster. Specific gravity 13.6 (liquid). Volatile. It occurs in the oxidation zone of chenplacer, and often exists in the pores of veins and rocks and in the clay.

[collection] it is usually obtained by crushing cinnabar ore, heating and distillation with air (or adding charcoal and iron) in the furnace, and then filtering. Natural mercury is rare.

[herbal medicine] it is an opaque heavy liquid at room temperature. It is silvery white and slightly bright. It is very easy to flow or split into small balls. There is no stain on the place where it flows, and it is easy to volatilize when it is heated. Silver white, bright, flexible flow, no trace on the paper surface. Insoluble in water, ethanol and hydrochloric acid. It can dissolve in nitric acid and hot concentrated sulfuric acid to form mercury salt. Add chalk or fat to make it very fine. It can form alloy with many kinds of metals.

Produced in Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and other places.

[processing] used to grind the same fat into fine powder or ointment.

"Lei Gong Paozhi Lun:" the mercury produced in cinnabar is red. When it is collected, it can be stored in gourd to avoid loss. If the two kinds of natural juice were boiled together for one day, the toxicity would subside. If repair ten Liang, stop with fried two flavor juice each seven long, and cooked enough for the degree. "

It is pungent, cold and poisonous.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes pungent and cold. "

② Bielu: "poisonous. "

[channel tropism] enters the heart, liver and kidney channels.

① "Yulao Yaojie" says: "start with Shaoyin heart and foot Shaoyin kidney meridian. "

② Ben Cao Zai Xin: "entering liver and kidney meridians. "

[function indications] kill insects and attack poison. Treatment of scabies, syphilis, Vickers, hemorrhoids and fistula.

① Ben Jing: "it can control scabies, fistulas, scabs, ulcers and baldness, kill lice in skin, abortion, remove heat, and poison gold, silver, copper and tin. "

② Materia medica notes: "to benefit the watercourse, to remove heat poison. "

③ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "it can cure Tianxing fever, give birth to a stillbirth. It can cure the evil sores, remove the wind, calm the nerves and calm the heart. "

④ Ben Cao Yan Yi: "it can cure children's fever and salivation. "

⑤ According to the book of Materia Medica Mengyao, it is said that "if you study the powder with Fengzi, you will kill the sores and insects; if you use Huangqin as a pill, you will get rid of the sores and insects. Then the fetus will be aborted. "

⑥ "Gangmu": "zhenzhutanni, vomiting, nausea. "

⑦ "Ben Cao Hui Yan": "point on bayberry sores. "

[usage and dosage] external use: mix and apply with other drugs.

[taboo] it is not suitable to take it orally, especially for pregnant women. For external use, do not overdose or use for a long time to avoid poisoning.

① Ben Cao Jing Ji Zhu: "Wei CI Shi. "

② "Medicine pair": fear of arsenic. "

③ "When people suffer from scabies, they usually use mercury to smear them. They are slippery and heavy in nature. They should be careful when they go straight into the flesh. "

④ According to the classic of materia medica: "it's not necessary to treat head sores. I'm afraid that they may enter the tendons and collaterals. It's necessary to slow down the tendons and bones. It's only suitable for external application, not for internal use. "

[selection] 1. The treatment of scabies has been good for many years: one or two of mercury, one or two of alum, one or two of Cnidium monnieri, one or two of realgar, one or two of Lu Ru mo. On the medicine, into the refining of pig fat half a Jin, all research Hou mercury star, then with the application, on three days. (shenghuifang mercury paste)

② Treatment of dry tinea: Mercury, Hu powder. Research order, adjust and apply it. (behind the elbow)

③ Treatment of heat sores and scabies, itching pain can not be tolerated: Mercury, Wu peak. Crisp and spread it. (Jin Xiao Fang)

④ Cure bayberry poison sore: Mercury, black lead each one money (knot sand), yellow Dan one money, frankincense, myrrh each five points. At the end, the paper roll was used as a small twister, oil was dyed to light the lamp, and the sore was exposed to sunlight (fumigation) three times. (compendium)

⑤ For hemorrhoids, there are more than two kinds of itching insects in the valley: Mercury and jujube ointment. With the research phase and, nianru jujube shape, thin cotton sheet wrapped, Na lower. If it hurts, add powder and divide it into three parts. (Mei Shi Ji Yi Fang)

⑥ Treatment of vitiligo: mercurial swab to eliminate the heat, a few swab, the difference is only. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑦ Treatment of underarm body odor: Mercury, Hu powder. On the two flavor, to the surface fat research and coating. (Qian Jin Fang)