amber

amber

(Lei Gong Paozhi Lun)

[synonyms] Yu Pei (Shanhaijing), Hu Po (Hanshu), Hu Po (Guangzhi), Jiang Zhu (Natural History), Hu Po (Houhanshu), Hu Po (Beast) and dunmu (SUI Shu).

[source] it is hydrocarbon formed by the resin of ancient Pinaceae plants buried underground for a long time.

[mineral form] Amber

Most of them are irregular granular, massive, bell shaped and scattered granular. Sometimes the interior contains fossils of plants or insects. The color is yellow, brown yellow and red yellow. Streaks are white or yellowish. With rosin luster. Transparent to opaque. The fracture surface is very obvious in shell shape. The hardness is 2-2.5. The specific gravity is 1.05-1.09. It's very brittle. Friction electrification.

It occurs in clay layer, sand layer, coal seam and sedimentary rock.

[collection] after being excavated from the stratum or coal seam, remove the impurities such as sand, soil, etc.

(1) amber

It is irregular block, granular or polygonal, with different sizes, and the block can be as long as 6cm. Blood red (commonly known as "xuepo") or yellowish brown, uneven surface, shiny. It is crisp and can be twisted into powder. It has no Qi, light taste, and is easy to chew without sand feeling. It's easy to fuse with fire, it has sound of explosion, white smoke and slight pine aroma.

② Coal hopper

Also known as Black Amber. It is usually polygonal and irregular block, a few of which are dropwise and of different sizes. The surface is brown to black with a slight luster. If the black part of the surface is removed, it will be transparent or translucent glass. It's hard and not fragile. It has no Qi, light taste, hard chew and no sand feeling.

It is better to be red, bright, tidy, crisp and fragile. Small pieces, hard quality and dark brown color are the second. This product is insoluble in acid, slightly soluble in ether, chloroform and warm alcohol.

Produced in Yunnan, Henan, Guangxi, Fujian, Guizhou, Liaoning and other places.

[chemical composition] it mainly contains resin and volatile oil. In addition, it contains succinoxy rosin acid, succinic rosin acid, succinic silver rosin acid, succinyl alcohol, succinic rosin alcohol and succinic acid.

[processing] picking up impurities and grinding them into fine powder.

Lei Gong Paozhi Lun: "when it is used as medicine, the powder of Platycladus orientalis should be mixed with water and put in a porcelain pot. The amber should be put in the end and boiled over a low heat. From Si to Shen, it has a different light. It is even more powdered and used for re screening. "

Sweet and smooth.

① Bielu: "it tastes sweet, flat and nontoxic. "

② Haiyao materia medica: "Wen. "

③ "Ben Cao Zheng": "it tastes sweet and light, and has a flat nature. "

[meridian tropism] into the heart, liver and small intestine meridians.

① "Lei Gong's treatment of medicinal properties": entering the heart, spleen and small intestine. "

② In the book of Materia Medica, it is said that "starting with Shaoyin and Taiyang, the foot Jueyin meridians. "

[function indications] it can calm the nerves, disperse blood stasis and stop bleeding, promote diuresis and remove drenching. It is used to treat convulsion, epilepsy, palpitation, insomnia, blood drenching, hematuria, urinary obstruction, amenorrhea, postpartum stasis, abdominal pain, carbuncle, sore poison, traumatic injuries.

① Bielu: "the five zang organs are tranquilized, the soul is shaken, the blood stasis is eliminated, and the five dregs are unblocked. "

② "Treatment of postpartum blood stasis pain. "

③ "Materia medica gleanings": "hemostasis and muscle regeneration, alloy sores. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica" said: "strong heart, bright eyes, wear Yi, stop heartache, epilepsy, break the knot 100. "

⑤ "Ben Cao BIE Shuo": "to treat honor and ease one's mind and benefit water. "

⑥ "Pearl bag": benefit urination, clear lung. "

⑦ "Ben Cao Zheng": "clearing heart and lung, eliminating blood stasis, phlegm and saliva. "

⑧ Yucatalpa medicine solution: "cool the lung and clear the liver, grind the barrier, stop the palpitation, remove the white and turbid spermatorrhea, lay down the dead fetus's afterbirth coat, apply the medicine to remove the poison, relieve thirst and trouble, smooth the fetus and give birth. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: take pills and powder, 3-6 points. External use: grind the end point, sprinkle.

[should avoid] it should not be taken for the patients with Yin deficiency and internal heat and without blood stasis.

According to the classic of Materia Medica, "those who have Yin deficiency and internal heat, fire and water dryness, and poor urination due to lack of urine, do not take amber to strengthen their benefits, which will damage their Yin more. "

[prescription selection] ① for treating children's convulsions, four seasons cold, wind cold, warm disease, pathogenic heat, causing restlessness, phlegm and cough, shortness of breath and sore rash: Genuine Amber, geranium, sandalwood, ginseng, white Poria cocos in half, powder grass in twos, Fructus aurantii (stir fried with bran), Fructus aurantii (stir fried with bran) in twos, Shuifei cinnabar in twos, Chinese yam in one catty (file into small pieces, stir fried with slow fire to heat through), dannanxing in one or two, gold foil One hundred tablets (remove the protective paper, take one or two pieces of patent medicine, use it with a very fine pestle in the same bowl, and use it at the end of the former medicine). The first 12 flavors, except cinnabar and gold foil, are not studied, and the remaining 10 flavors, sandalwood is not hot. The nine flavors are either sun dried or baked. They are processed at the same time. They are mixed evenly. Each cinnabar and gold foil is double. Take one or two new wells of water and pour them into the milk bowl. Pestle them evenly. The pills are as big as mung beans and dry in the shade. Take it with Scallion soup, three times for each pill within one hundred days, one or two pills for those over two years old. (huoyouxinshu amber Baolong pill)

② For the treatment of convulsions in Tiandiao: one point at the end of amber, one point at the end of real pearl, one and a half points at the end of cinnabar, one and a half points at the end of lead cream, one and a half points at the end of red peony. Mix well on top, take one word each time, fry gold, silver and mint soup, and then adjust, all the time. (amber powder in general micro prescription for children's health)

③ Treatment of infantile fetal shock: amber, Fangfeng each one money, cinnabar half money. For the end, pig milk tune word, the entrance. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

④ A small amount of cinnabar and one piece of cinnabar are used to treat infantile epilepsy. At the end of the year, Maimendong decoction was used to adjust the uniform. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

⑤ Treatment forgetful trance, spirit deficiency insomnia: amber, antelope horn, ginseng, white Fuzhen, Polygala (system), licorice, etc. On the top is the fine powder, the pig's painstaking efforts and the refined honey pill, the Euryale ferox seed is big, the gold foil is the clothing. Take one pill at a time and chew down the soup. (amber Duomei pill in Jingyue Quanshu)

⑥ After treatment, the patients were tired and didn't sleep: amber, Zhenzhu, Shengdi and liquorice were one money each, Angelica sinensis and Huanglian were three money each, and cinnabar was two money each. On the end, rice paste pills, such as corn big. Take 30 pills each time. After eating, take the Maimendong soup. (huoxintong amber Anshen pill)

⑦ To cure the fire of the heart meridian, move it to the small intestine, and drown in the turbid or astringent or painful: Amber one coin, Tiandong one coin five Fen, Ophiopogon one coin five Fen, Shengdi five Fen, Danshen two coin, Danpi two coin, Chishao, Mutong each one coin, liquorice tip five Fen, light bamboo leaf 20 pieces, wick three feet. (amber Daochi Decoction in Yi Chun Sheng Yi)

⑧ For the heat storage of heart meridian, red and astringent urination, and pain caused by dripping: amber is the fine powder, half a dollar for each serving, deep fried Hemerocallis root is adjusted, before eating. (forgetting worry powder in Yang's family prescriptions)

⑨ Treatment of urine and blood: amber for the end, every two money, wick soup. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

⑩ To cure women's monthly syndrome: amber or two (carefully studied, boiled with vinegar for three liters), Tabanus or half (removed wing and foot, fried yellow), leech or half (fried yellow), cinnamon or three (removed wrinkle skin), peach kernel or two (peeled, pointed, double kernel, not studied, raw), Sichuan rhubarb or three . The medicine is made of the tamul, and the amber paste and pills are large, such as Wutong, each hollow hollow under the warm wine thirty pills. (Sheng Hui Fang, amber fried pill)

(11) treatment of menstrual water or before or after or blood stasis and stillbirth, and raise the fetus, calm the mind: amber, frankincense, myrrh, cinnabar each one money three, a little musk. The research fine, Dengxin Soup for pills, Euryale ferox large. Take one pill each time, such as abdominal pain, ginger juice, stool and wine. (Amber pill in nuke Wanjin Fang)

(12) after the treatment of postpartum lochia, the Qi attacks the heart and abdomen, and it is boring and stinging: amber, turmeric, Achyranthes bidentata (soaked in wine, cut and baked), Polygonum cuspidatum, peony peel, Angelica sinensis (cut and baked), raw and dried Rehmannia (baked), Cinnamomum Cassia (peeled), peach kernel (soaked in soup, peeled, pointed, double kernel, stir fried with bran), rhubarb (file and baked), Tabanus (removed wings, feet, fried with yellow), mirabilite (or two). Top 12 flavors, mash and sift. Take two daggers and one cup of water for each. Decoct it for seven minutes. Remove the dross and warm it. (Amber soup in Shengji Zonglu)

It can stop bleeding and promote muscle growth, calm the heart and improve the eyesight, break the Baihuang gas block, cause postpartum blood stasis, and cause pain in the pillow: Amber one or two, turtle one or two, jingsanleng one or two, yanhusuo half two, myrrh half two, rhubarb six baht. Boil and pound for powder, take three money dagger for hollow wine, and take it again every day. (Haiyao materia medica)

(14) in the treatment of carbuncle, gangrene and back, when it is not purulent, I am afraid that the poisonous gas can not go out, so I will attack internally. I take this pill in advance to protect the heart and protect the membrane, and also disperse blood and detoxify: one or two pieces of alum, one or two pieces of realgar, one or two pieces of amber, one or two pieces of cinnabar, one or two pieces of yellow wax, and two pieces of honey. First, grind the four ingredients very fine, then dissolve the honey and wax in the copper ladle. When you leave the fire and wait for the wax to solidify slightly on the four sides, then add the medicine and mix it up to form a piece. One person will bake the medicine slightly on the fire, and the others will take the pills quickly. The small mung bean is big. The cinnabar is used as the coat and the magnetic can is used for storage. Take 20 or 30 pills every time, and then send them to the hospital with white soup. If they are very ill, they will be given twice a day. (Amber wax alum pill in authentic surgery)

When he fell from a high place, he had blood stasis: scraping amber scraps, taking a square inch dagger with wine, or three or two daggers with pollen Typhae, four or five times a day. (waitai secret recipe)

[discussion by famous experts] 1. Supplement to the meaning of materia medica: "Amber belongs to Yang, which is used in modern and ancient times to facilitate urination. It is effective in drying the spleen and soil. The spleen can transport and transform, and the lung qi decreases. Therefore, urination can be unblocked. If there is less blood, it will lead to the suffering of dryness. "

② "The classic of Materia Medica": "amber, special into the blood. The heart governs blood, the liver stores blood and enters the heart and liver, so it can eliminate blood stasis. "After all, this medicine is the nature of dissipating infiltration, which is not conducive to virtual infiltration. Most of them use warm and pungent drugs to break the blood, light penetration drugs to promote the orifices and water, and Jinshi drugs to calm the mind. "

③ According to the book of origin: "amber can kill the nature of infiltration and benefit. Those who do not have blood in the bladder should not throw it by mistake. And rhubarb, turtle shell for powder, wine under the square inch dagger, treatment of women's abdominal evil blood, blood to stop. If the blood node is swollen, the abdomen is as big as a drum, and the urine is blocked, it should also be used to break the Qi of Aquilaria generation. It can also disperse blood and remove blood stasis. "

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