Needle sand

Needle sand

(notes on materia medica)

[synonym] steel sand (materia medica), iron sand (Introduction to medicine).

[source] it is the fine debris from the steel needle.

[collection] most of them are collected from various needle factories.

[herbal medicine] is a black or grayish brown fine powder with a small amount of fragments less than 0.05 cubic mm. It has metallic luster and is heavy and firm. The thinner the better, the coarser should not be used as medicine. It's true that long strips can be sucked up by magnets, and it's better to burn them with fire, sparkle and crackle.

[chemical composition] the main component is iron, and the impurity is iron oxide (hydrate), but it also contains carbon, phosphorus, silicon, sulfur and other elements.

[processing] needle sand powder: the needle sand is calcined on charcoal fire and quenched with red vinegar, repeated for six or seven times, and then pounded into powder.

[flavor] sour, pungent and smooth.

① "Materia medica collection": "the nature is flat, non-toxic. "

② "Grasping the spirit of Materia Medica": "Gan, Ping. "

③ "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "sour and pungent, non-toxic. "

[meridian tropism] 1. Yaoyaofenji: entering the spleen and large intestine. "

② Summary of materia medica: "start with the Taiyin classic. "

Functions and indications: tonifying blood, removing dampness and promoting diuresis. Treatment of blood deficiency, yellow fat, edema.

① In the collection of materia medica: "flying is powder, and its function is like iron powder. "

② "The treatment of obesity in the Yellow River". "

③ "Compendium": "clear accumulation, swelling, jaundice, liver qi, scattered gall. "

④ "Grasping the spirit of herbal medicine": "calming the heart and calming the liver. "

⑤ "This Jing meets the source": "treats the damp heat spleen to work yellow sickness, eliminates the spleen stomach to accumulate the Yellow swelling. "

⑥ Yilin zuanyao: "it can relieve swelling and relieve heart and kidney. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan; or into pills, powder. External use: apply and iron with medicine.

[prescription selection] ① it can be used to treat food accumulation and jaundice, and also to make liver dryness and spleen: two liang of needle sand (stir fried red with vinegar), five liang of tangerine peel, Atractylodes lancea, Magnolia officinalis, Sparganium, pengzhu and Qingpi, one jin of Xiangfu and one or two Jin of licorice. On the end, vinegar paste pills, hollow ginger, salt soup; afternoon meal, wine. Avoid dog meat, fruits and vegetables. (Dan Xi Xin Fa Da Wen Zhong WAN)

② For treating jaundice, it can also remove food accumulation: needle sand (stir fried red with vinegar); Atractylodes Rhizoma, Chuanxiong Rhizoma, Xiangfu Rhizoma, Shenqu Rhizoma; add Xiong Rhizoma in spring, Sophora flavescens or Coptis Rhizoma in summer, Evodia rutaecarpa or dried ginger in winter. (xiaowenzhong pill in Danxi Xinfa)

③ Treatment of sunflower yellow disease, edema: needle sand (vinegar calcined, grind fine powder) three money, red jujube meat amount. Make one hundred pills. Take one or two capsules each time, three times a day, with warm water. (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine)

④ Treatment of spleen jaundice: Acupuncture sand four Liang (vinegar fried seven times), in lacquer (burning) three money, Xiangfu three money, Pingwei Powder five money. For the end, steamed cake pill Wuzi big. Let the soup be my envoy. (pick Yuan Fang)

⑤ To cure the Yellow sores of damp heat and help the spleen to remove dampness: the needle sand is not limited to the amount, and the rust is thoroughly polished, and the white is washed out. The needle sand is soaked in rice vinegar for one finger, and then fried for three or five times. After that, the red is taken out. Half a liter of old japonica rice is soaked in water for one night, and then the powder is mashed to make a block, which is half cooked and mashed. Then the needle sand is put into two halves, and the herb cream is fried for one or two halves. Take 50 pills each time. Soak the wine with Acanthopanax giraldii, Achyranthes bidentata root and papaya. If you take diarrhea for the first time, the source of the disease will go away. (business in heaven and earth)

⑥ Treatment of edema and less urine: needle sand (vinegar fried dry), Polyporus umbellatus, raw earthworm each three money. For the end, onion saliva research and. Apply umbilical about an inch thick, tied, to urinate for degrees, two easy day. It's better to enter kansui. (Biography of deshengtang)

⑦ Treatment of Qi gall: the needle sand into the water tank immersion, diet with this water, 10 days for a sand, half a year since the dissipation. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

⑧ Treatment of rheumatic foot pain: needle sand, Aconitum carmichaeli. For the end, and stir fry hot, Mianbao ironing. (pick Yuan Fang)

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