Fish brain stone

Fish brain stone

(compilation of medicinal materials)

[synonyms] shishouyutoushi (qianjinfang), shishouyunaozhongzhen (rihuazi materia medica), shishouyu (linhuji brief prescription), shishougu (bencaoyuhuiyan), huangyunaoshi and yushoushi (Zhejiang traditional Chinese medicine manual).

[source] Otoliths from the skulls of Pseudosciaena crocea or Pseudosciaena crocea. See "shishouyu" for animal morphology.

[collection] most of them are by-products of fish processing. They are usually collected in the fishing season of May to June. During processing, remove the largest otolith from the skull, wash it and dry it.

[herbal medicine] is a long ovate, with sparganic granules. The brain stones of Pseudosciaena crocea are 1.5-2 cm long and 0.8-1.8 cm wide. Small yellow croaker, 1-1.2 cm long, 5-7 mm wide. Wide in the middle, slightly rounded at one end and pointed at the other. All magnetic white. The articular surface is relatively flat, with obvious round nodal marks on the surface; the other side is uplifted to one side, with an inclined groove near the tip, and several transverse processes, and a slender texture, namely a long line, can be seen below the uplifted side. It is hard and not easy to break. It is slightly astringent. It is better to be white, hard and free of impurities.

It is mainly produced in Zhejiang.

[processing] wash and dry, put it in an iron spoon, cover it with a bowl, calcine it on a hot fire until it crackles, then take it out and let it cool.

[Xing Wei] Yilin zuanyao: "salty, flat. "

[function indications] fossil, Tonglin, anti-inflammatory. Treatment of stone drenching, adverse urination, otitis media, rhinitis, cerebral leakage.

① "Rihuazi materia medica:" take the pillow burning in the brain as the end, drink to treat Shilin. "

② "Kaibao Materia Medica" says: "it's the main way to take the stone shower. It's the way to take the grindstone. It's also the way to take the ash powder. "

③ "Compendium": "at the end of the research or burning water clothing, the main drenching, urine barrier. Boiled juice, solution arsenic poison, wild fungus poison. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: Yanmo, 1-3 yuan. External use: burning, storing, researching and spreading.

[selection] 1. Treatment of Shilin and all kinds of Lin: Shishou fish head stone 14 pieces, angelica equally divided. Mash and sift the two ingredients into powder. Take two liters of water, boil one liter and take it. (prescription for health preservation)

② Cure urination impassable: Shishou Yutou Shimei, Shuifu Fangcun dagger, Risan. (Qian Jin Fang)

③ Treatment of ear abscess: shishouyu, grinding powder, or burning research mixed ear. (Linhu jijianfang)

④ Treat rhinitis: fish brain stone (calcine) one money, borneol one cent. At the end of the study, inhale. (Shandong Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine)

⑤ Long time treatment of brain drain: shishougu, fire research is very fine, every night before going to bed, take a money, wine tune down. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)