Sulfur

Pyrite

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] Shi Liuhuang (fan Zi Ji ran), Shi Liuhuang (Shi Liu Huang), sulfur (Wu Pu Ben Cao), Kunlun Huang (Tao Hongjing), Huang Ya (Dan Fang Jian Yuan), Huang Naosha (Hai Yao Ben Cao).

[source] it is smelted from pyrite or sulfur-containing minerals.

Sulfur

Orthorhombic system. The conic surface of the crystal is developed and occasionally thick plate-shaped. The common ones are dense block, bell like, membranous, earthy, etc. The colors are yellow, light yellow, light green yellow, grayish yellow, brown and black. Streaks are white to light yellow. The crystal surface is emerald luster, and the fracture surface is fatty luster. Translucent. The cleavage is incomplete. The fracture surface is shell or uneven. The hardness is 1-2. The specific gravity is 2.05-2.08. It's brittle. It is a good insulator. Hold it tightly by the ear and you can hear a slight crackle. It melts at 108 ℃ and burns at 270 ℃. It is common in hot springs, fountains, craters and sedimentary rocks.

[collection] the lump sulfur and ore are heated and melted in the pit with a plain burning pot, and the sulfur solution on the upper layer is poured into the model, cooled and taken out.

[herbal medicine] is an irregular block with different sizes. Yellow, or with light green or light brown yellow. The surface is not flat, often with pockmarks and fine sand holes; glossy, translucent. It is light, brittle and fragile. The cross section is usually coarse needle crystal. It has a peculiar odor and a light taste. The best color is yellow, bright, crisp and free of impurities. It is easy to melt when burning. It has a blue flame and gives off a pungent odor of sulfur dioxide. Insoluble in water, hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid; oxidized to sulfuric acid in the presence of nitric acid or aqua regia; soluble in carbon disulfide, coal sleeve and turpentine.

Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Guangdong, Taiwan and other places.

In addition, there are natural iodine and sulfur on board

① Natural history

After collection, first wash the soil with cold water, then blanch it with hot water for more than 7-10 times, and then put it in sesame oil to pick up the floating on the surface. This product is a light yellow powder, few of which are fragmentary, twinkling and smelly.

② Sulfur on board

Also known as: Ship sulfur ("Zunsheng eight paper"), white sulfur ("hundred grass mirror"). It is made from sulfur. The products are irregular blocks, all bright yellow, translucent, with glass like luster. The body is light and brittle, fragile, and the section is not flat. It stinks and tastes light.

[chemical composition] the pure product mainly contains sulfur, tellurium and selenium. There are impurities in the goods.

[pharmacological action] sulfur itself is not active. After oral administration, it turns into sulfide or hydrogen sulfide, which stimulates gastrointestinal mucosa and makes it excited and peristaltic, leading to diarrhea. This process requires the presence of alkaline environment, Escherichia coli, especially lipolytic enzymes. When there are many fatty substances in the intestine, it is easy to produce a lot of hydrogen sulfide and cause diarrhea. High concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the air can directly paralyze the central nerve cells and lead to death. Local application of sulfide can dissolve cutin and depilate (barium sulfide).

Raw sulfur: remove impurities and smash them into small pieces. Making sulfur: take out the sulfur blocks and cook them with tofu until the tofu turns black and green. Remove the tofu and float it away and dry it in the shade. (10 jin sulfur, 20 jin tofu)

According to the compendium of Medical Sciences, "if sulfur is used in pill powder, it must be gouged out with radish, put sulfur into it, and fix it together. Then rice bran is simmered to remove its odor. Then duckweed is boiled together to eliminate its fire poison. Then the black pulp is removed by washing it with Gleditsia sinensis soup. One method: smash it, put it in a silk bag, and use it when it is three volts boiled with ashless wine. It can also remove stone energy and turn sulfur into water. It can be buried in horse dung in bamboo tube for one month. It also becomes water, which is called sulfur liquid. "

Sour, hot and poisonous.

① "Ben Jing": sour taste, warm. "

② Wupu materia medica: "Shennong, Huangdi, Leigong: salty, poisonous. Yihe, bianque: non toxic. "

③ "Bielu" is "hot, poisonous. "

④ "On medicinal properties": "it tastes sweet and has great poison. "

[channel tropism] entering kidney and spleen channels.

① In the explanation of Lei Gong's concocting medicinal properties: "entering the gate of life.". "

② In the book of Materia Medica, it is said that "Jueyin meridian should be started. "

⑧ "Yuluoyaojie" says: "it enters the spleen of foot Taiyin, kidney of foot Shaoyin, liver meridian of foot Jueyin. "

Functions and indications: Invigorating Yang and killing insects. For impotence, diarrhea due to deficiency of cold, constipation due to cold, external use for scabies, eczema and scabies.

① "Ben Jing" says: "housewives have Yin erosion, gangrene, hemorrhoids and blood, strengthen their muscles and bones, and get rid of alopecia. "

② Bielu: "it can cure the accumulation of heart and abdomen, evil Qi, cold ringworm in the flank, cough against the upper Qi, cold pain and weakness in the feet, and sores in the nose, hidden sores in the lower part, stop bleeding and kill scabies. "

③ "On medicinal properties": "in addition to cold wind, stubborn Bi. Shengyong is used to treat scabies, cold and heat cough, and refining and taking is used to treat deficiency and damage of essence. "

④ "Haiyao materia medica:" the main spermatorrhea hemorrhoids leakage, the elderly wind secret. "

⑤ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "kill abdominal visceral insects. "

⑥ "The compendium of Medical Sciences" says: "it is mainly responsible for deficiency of cold, long-term dysentery and diarrhea, cholera, deficiency of nourishing life gate, sudden death of Yang Qi, Yin toxin, typhoid fever, and children's slow shock. "

⑦ "Natural sulfonation, treatment of diaphragmatic disease. "The sulfur on the ship can eliminate spots, kill insects, cure sores, dredge blood, stop diarrhea and dysentery. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: Yanmo, 0.5-1 Qian, or into pills or powder. Spread or apply: grind juice.

[should avoid] Yin deficiency, excessive fire and pregnant women should not take it.

① "Yaodui": Zeng Qing was the envoy. Fear of asarum, Feilian, Glauber's salt, iron, vinegar. "

② "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" says: "long time taking will hurt Yin, large intestine will hurt, and most of them will lead to bloody stool; damp heat and pruritus are not appropriate. "

[selection of prescriptions] ① it is used to treat men's long-term cold waist and kidney, accumulation of heart and abdomen, cold ringworm under the flank, various worms in the abdomen, loss of sperm and drowning, poor physical strength, weak pain in feet and knees, stubborn cold wind, cholera tendon, deficiency and sliding down; it is also used to treat women's cold and hot blood, Yin erosion, gangrene and hemorrhoids: sulfur 12 Liang. Clean pick sand, fly over, use porcelain box, seal with water and red grease, dry with salt and mud, and dry in the ground, fill a small pot in the ground, fill the water with full grain, and put the mixture on the top, use the mud to fix the food, and keep the fire for seven days and seven nights. Hou Hou, add the top fire to a jin of calcination, Hou cold extract, study for fine, end with one or two, use steamed bread one or two, soak in the soup to hold water, search for pills, such as Wutong big. Each take 30 pills, as many as 100 pills, warm rice drink, hollow service. (kufang Jinye pill)

② Treatment of Yin poison, green complexion, cold limbs, irritable heart and abdominal pain: sulfur yellow powder, new water transfer two money, for a long time, or cold together, or hot together, more tight slow, take again, sweat. (benshifang Huanyang powder)

③ Treatment of spleen deficiency under white, spleen and stomach deficiency cold, stop water stagnation gas, condensed into white tears under the out: Ship sulfur one or two (Research end), fried noodles a point. With research, drop cold hot water pill Wuzi big. 50 pills per rice soup. (Yang's prescription for protecting life)

④ Treatment of water diarrhea more than, injury cold deficiency pole: sulfur one or two. First, we should melt the yellow wax and then mix it in the sulfur. The pills will be big, such as Wutong Zi, each five feet, and under the new water.

⑤ It is used to treat all kinds of diseases in the heart and abdomen, such as cold air, high wind, cold secret or diarrhea, etc.: sulfur (for those who are clear and clean, they have been studied very carefully and killed with willow mallet), Pinellia ternata (soaked in soup for seven times and baked as fine powder). Divide the above ingredients evenly, ginger and natural juice together, stir in the dry steaming, stir up the mixture, and pour into the mortar for hundreds of times. The pills are Wutong. Take 15 to 20 pills of warm wine or ginger soup and vinegar soup. (semi sulfur pill in local prescription)

⑥ For stomach qi, cold pain is especially effective: yuanhusuo, pepper, wulingzhi, white cardamom each five money, sulfur one or two, Muxiang (sliced, dried) two money and five cents. Grind finely, mix well and store. Take one cent for the strong, eight percent for the weak, and five percent for the old and young. Take half a small cup of warm Shaojiu and take it. On the next day, eat thin rice soup. After five days, you can eat dry rice. Pregnant women should not take it. (Jian Gen Wan, experience Collection)

⑦ Cure stroke to scabies: rub sesame oil with sulfur. (behind the elbow)

⑧ Cure all dry and wet tinea: Stone sulfur yellow half money, weathering lime half two, lead Dan two money, greasy powder one money. Grind together like powder, mix with crude oil, wipe with cloth to break tinea first. Uncoated medicine room, fried scallion, licorice soup leaching, such as change when also in accordance with this. (Shengji Zonglu is like Shengsan)

⑨ Treatment of chronic eczema, neurodermatitis: sulfur one or two, silver one money, vinegar half Jin. Put the sulfur in the iron spoon to melt, put in the silver beads to mix well, dig a two to three inch deep pit on the ground, pour the vinegar and the dissolved sulfur into the pit successively, take it out after solidification, and then melt it. Treat it three times in this way, smash the powder, mix well with vegetable oil, and rub the affected part with cloth medicine twice a day. (selected materials of new medical treatment of Chinese herbal medicine, Inner Mongolia)

⑩ Treatment of Pandora: sulfur yellow powder, a little wine, drink juice, or increase Maple oil better. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

(11) treatment of ulcer wind disease, white piece: cloth swab vinegar, grinding sulfur, Fuzi coated, or sulfur, alum rub. (Yao Seng Tan's collected prescriptions)

(12) treatment of dampness blister caused by Yin: calculus sulfur yellow, grinded like powder, applied on the wound, three times a day. (Mei Shi Ji Yi Fang)

The treatment of children's ear: the powder of stone yellow, to powder ears, one day and one night. (Qian Jin Fang)

(11) anti cough: sulfur, smoke. (medical abstract)

(12) treatment of wine? Red nose: divide sulfur, chicken heart and betel nut on board, and a little brain. For the end, silk bag, rub it day by day, add castor oil better. (ruizhutang experience recipe)

⒀ treatment of deafness: sulfur and realgar are equally divided. For the end, cotton wrapped in the ear. (Qian Jin Fang)

It can relieve pain, resist infection, protect wound and promote healing: sulfur, alcohol. Smash the sulfur into a magnetic container (metal container is not available), add the liquor, and take the sulfur as the degree. Light the wine to a charcoal grey. Because the wine contains water, if there is more water after burning, you can dry the sulfur with slow fire, then grind the noodles, and sprinkle it on the affected part. If there are blisters, prick the blisters and apply the medicine

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