Loess

Loess

(notes to the classic of Materia Medica)

Another name: HaoTu, haohuangtu.

Loess

Generally, it is grayish yellow. It is rich in calcium salts and calcareous nodules, loose, with macropores visible by naked eyes, and columnar joints developed. When dry, it is relatively solid and can keep the vertical steep wall. It is easy to collapse and sink when it is soaked in water.

It is quaternary continental sediments. It is widely distributed in Northwest and North China.

[nature and taste] 1. In the collection of Materia Medica, it is sweet, flat and non-toxic. "

② Ben Cao Zai Xin: "it tastes sweet, gentle and nontoxic. "

[meridian tropism] 1. Yaoyaofenji: entering the spleen and stomach meridians. "

② In Bencao Zaixin: "entering the heart and spleen meridians. "

[function indications] detoxification in Hezhong. Treatment of heat stroke, vomiting and diarrhea, dysentery, carbuncle, swelling poison, fall injury.

① Li dangzhi's "medicine record": "it is very important to treat all carbuncle, gangrene, hair on the back and acute yellow fever. "

② "Materia medica collection": "it is mainly used to discharge dysentery, cold and hot, red and white, heat and toxin in the abdomen, strangle pain and lower blood. Take dry soil and boil it for three or five times. Take away the dross. Suitable for thin, thick and warm one or two liters. It also resolves all kinds of drugs. In the meat poison, pepper poison, wild fungus poison and solution. "

③ Yilin zuanyao: "harmonizing Yin and Yang, detoxifying a hundred poisons. It can cure miasma, heat, cholera, and sudden death in the middle. It can relieve all the poison of fish, meat, cabbage, mushroom, medicinal herbs, Dan Shi and insects entering the abdomen. Remove the bruises and continue the bleeding. "

④ "New Materia Medica": "appetizer spleen, Xiaoshi Lishi, Buzhong Yiqi. "

⑤ "Seeking the source of Materia Medica" says: "the main veins are restrained. The treatment of insects into the abdomen, attack itching yellow thin, children eat soil, wind body black. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 Liang. External use: adjust or stir fry hot cloth wrapped warm ironing, or boiling water to clear washing.

[prescription selection] 1. To cure infantile convulsion, if the body is covered with black, push it down: a bowl of loess, mash it, add a cup of long-term vinegar, stir fry it, heat it, iron it, lead it down to the foot, and pierce it. (children's secret)

② Treatment of children eat soil: dry loess a piece, research end, thick fried Coptis soup transfer. (emergency prescription)

③ From the beginning of treatment - cut carbuncle and big poison; a large piece of yellow mud (simmered), a handful of scallion, a cup of honey, three parts of realgar. A total of pestle rotten for a cake, by hot compress poison, such as dry again. (complete collection of selected doctors)

④ Treatment of internal hemorrhoids swelling and pain: Chaoyang loess, Rhizoma Coptidis, tannate each one or two. Use pig bile to grind together like mud, daily spin pill jujube big, bring into anus, pass a night, go with defecate. Take Wumei and Huanglian pills orally. (Sun Tianren Jixiao Fang)

⑤ If you fall from a high place, or when you are surrounded by wood or stone, or when you fall from a horse, you will be cured of all the injuries, bruises and blood clotting, and you will die of exhaustion of breath. Five liters of pure land steaming will make you smooth, and it will be divided into half, so you can wrap it in several pieces of cloth, and then you can iron the disease. Don't make it too hot for fear of breaking the meat. If it is cold, it will be easy, and the pain will stop. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑥ Treatment of cattle and horse meat poison and liver poison: three liters of good soil, boiled clear water, one liter of service. (behind the elbow)

In the classic of Materia Medica, Huangtu is used as a medicine to treat diarrhea, cold, hot, red and white, and the heat toxin in the abdomen is twisted and painful. It has a sweet taste and a harmonious Qi. It can calm the spleen and stomach, stop blood flow and detoxify all kinds of poisons. "

Chinese PinYin : Huang Tu