Orpiment

Orpiment

(Ben Jing)

Another name is Huang an.

[source] it is the ore of sulfide mineral orpiment.

[mineral form] orpiment

Monoclinic system. Crystals are usually columnar, often with curved crystal faces, and aggregates are rod-shaped, massive, and crisscross. Lemon yellow, sometimes light brown. Streaks are the same as the natural color of minerals, but the color is more distinct. The luster varies with different directions, from diamond luster to fat luster, and the fresh section shows strong pearl luster. Translucent. The cleavage is complete. The hardness is 1.5-2. The specific gravity is 3.4-3.5. It is flexible, the sheet can be bent, but not elastic. It usually occurs in low-temperature hydrothermal deposits, and also exists near hot springs and volcanoes. It is often associated with realgar and stibnite.

[collection] after excavation, remove miscellaneous stones and soil.

[herbal medicine] is an irregular block with different sizes. All are lemon yellow, mixed with grayish green. The surface is often covered with a layer of yellow powder, slightly glossy and uneven. The body is heavy, brittle and the section is not flat. The crystal block is columnar, translucent and has resin like luster, while the inclusion is grayish green, opaque, lusterless and slightly peculiar odor. It's poisonous. Don't taste it. Large, transparent, crisp, bright yellow and resin like luster are preferred. Insoluble in water and hydrochloric acid, soluble in nitric acid, solution is yellow; soluble in sodium hydroxide solution is brown. It is easy to melt when burning, forming red black liquid, yellow white smoke and strong garlic odor. After cooling, the melt condenses into red black solid.

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

The character of this product is similar to realgar, but realgar is red or orange red, while female is yellow, which can be distinguished.

[chemical composition] it contains arsenic trisulfide, in which arsenic is 61% and sulfur is 39%. It usually contains impurities such as Sb2S3, FeS2, SiO2 and mud. The main products sold in Beijing contain arsenic trisulfide, 60.64% of which is arsenic, 30.88% is sulfur, and contains iron, silicon and other impurities.

[pharmacological action] the concentration of orpiment (1:2) can inhibit a variety of skin fungi in vitro.

To grind into powder.

It is pungent, flat and poisonous.

① Ben Jing: "the taste is pungent and the taste is flat. "

② "Compendium": "Xin, Ping, toxic. "

[Guijing] "Debei Materia Medica": "Yin points in the liver meridian. "

Functions and indications: dryness and dampness, killing insects and detoxification. Treatment of scabies, sores, snakebite, epilepsy, cold phlegm cough, abdominal pain.

① "Ben Jing" says: "it is mainly used for the treatment of acne, alopecia, scab and scabies. "

② Bielu: "eroding polyps in the nose, hiding sores in the lower part, white skin, dispersing dead skin and trance evil Qi, killing bee and snake venom. "

③ "Introduction to medicine": "for the treatment of black scabies, the lung has been coughing for a long time, the woman's blood gas has been cold for a long time, and her heart is not only aching. "

④ "Compendium": "treatment of cold phlegm, cough, blood gas accumulation, heart and abdominal pain, epilepsy, detoxification. "

[usage and dosage] external use: Yanmo Tiao Fu. Oral administration: into the pill, powder.

[should avoid] Yin deficiency and blood deficiency and pregnant women should not take it.

It is forbidden for those with Yin deficiency and blood dryness. "

[selected formula] ① for psoriasis: powder of estrogen, light powder, and pig paste. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

② Treatment of black scabies: female yellow, not limited to many. Grind as fine as flour, mix vinegar with chicken yolk and mix well. Apply to the sore, dry that more. (Sheng Hui Fang's Insecticidal formula)

③ Treatment of head sores and all kinds of sores: one or two orpiments (careful study), one or two Coptis (removing beard), one or two Sophora flavescens, one or two drop stones, one or two Lu Ru, half mangcao, two cinnabar (careful study). To apply the medicine, first file four kinds of herbs, then add one kilogram of fat of the Chinese lunar month pig and fry it over slow fire. After three times, remove the dross and research the medicine. Then stir it into paste and put it into a porcelain box. Apply a little on each sore. (Sheng Hui Fang Er Huang Gao)

④ Cure epilepsy??, eye dark chew tongue: female Huang, Huang Dan (fry) each one or two. For the end, into the musk a little, to cow milk half liter boil into cream, and pestle thousand, pills such as pockmarked. Take three or five pills per warm water. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

⑤ In the treatment of wind epilepsy, if you want to have a seizure, you will feel restless, your eyes will not be clear, you will have a bad voice, and you will chew your tongue and spit: one or two orpiments (leaves), two taels of iron powder, and two taels of Huangdan (stir fried with orpiments). Shangyao are fine research for the end, to japonica rice and pills, such as mung bean. Every time you take it, take five pills with milk. If you don't have milk, you can also take them under warm water. (Sheng Hui Fang, female pill)

⑥ Treatment of cough and asthma: one female, two realgar, seven almonds (soaked in soup, peeled, pointed, double kernel, stir fried with bran). Fine research for the end of the drug, toad venom and pills, such as corn. Regardless of the time, three pills were fried in the soup. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑦ Stop phlegm in the stomach, wheezing impassable, the desire to breathe: orpiment one or two, realgar one money. For the end, the wax ball is big. Take one pill at a time and eat it in hot glutinous rice porridge in the middle of the night. (jishengfang)

⑧ More than anti vomiting stomach, diet: orpiment - points (Research), licorice half points . The last two tastes are the last, the rotten rice and pills, such as Wutong. With five leaves of grass, glutinous rice Decoction with four pills. (female pill in Shengji Zonglu)

⑨ Long term treatment of heartache, hair uncertain, spit more water, no diet: orpiment two Liang. Study carefully, add vinegar two liters, lower yellow, and cook slowly into the paste, then pour into the steamed bread, and make the pill as the Wutong seed. Take each pill, then take seven pills with ginger vinegar soup. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑩ Treatment of urine slippery number: orpiment (grind such as powder) one or two, dry ginger half two (file, into salt four money dagger, with fried yellow). Mash and grind the two ingredients as the end, use dry steamed cake as the end, mix and mash in water, and the ball is as big as mung bean. Take ten pills for each, add to 20 pills, and add to the hollow salt soup. (female pill in Shengji Zonglu)

[famous treatise] Compendium: "both female and male yellow are produced at the same time. It seems that the two yellow can be used to treat diseases. The most important thing is to warm the middle of the body, search the liver, kill insects, detoxify and remove pathogenic factors. "

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