Ma Bao

Ma Bao

(yinpianxinshen)

[synonym] Ma Shi (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is a stone in the stomach and intestines of equine animals.

[collection] after the horse is slaughtered, remove the stone, wash it with clean water and dry it in the air.

[herbal medicine] it is spherical, oval or oblong in shape, with a diameter of about 6-20 cm and a weight of 250-2500 cm. However, some are as small as beans. The surface is egg blue, gray white to oil brown, smooth and glossy, or with disordered fine grass lines, or uneven concave and convex. Its quality is strong and heavy, and its profile is gray white with concentric layers, commonly known as "vortex pattern", and it has a little glass like luster. The fiber of broken grass can be seen under the microscope. Gas tasteless light, chew it into fine powder. It is better to be big, heavy, solid, gray, smooth and layered.

It is mainly produced in Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang, Gansu, Yunnan, Guizhou, Tibet, etc.

[identification] take a small amount of mabao powder, spread it on the tin foil, and burn it with fire to make it hot. The powder will soon gather together and give off the smell of horse urine. If there is no such phenomenon, it is not the real mabao.

[flavor] sweet and salty, cool.

① "Gangmu": "sweet and salty, flat, non-toxic. "

② "Records of traditional Chinese medicine:" sweet, salty, slightly bitter, cool. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is cool in nature, salty and slightly bitter in taste, and has little poison. "

[Guijing] records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine: "entering the heart and liver meridians. "

[function indications] it can relieve convulsion and phlegm, clear away heat and detoxify. It is used to treat convulsion, epilepsy, mania, excessive phlegm heat, unconsciousness, hematemesis, bleeding, malignant sores and swelling.

① Compendium: "treatment of convulsion, toxic sores. "

② "Yinpianxinshen": "xiaogannao, heat phlegm, treatment of spasm and epilepsy, antiemetic. "

③ Modern practical Chinese medicine: "it is effective for nervous insomnia, hysteria, spasmodic cough, etc. It can also detoxify and cure acne. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: Yanmo, 2-5 points.

[taboo] yinpianxinshen: "it should not be used in cold and phlegm dampness. "

[prescription selection] ① treatment of infantile convulsion and epilepsy: Ma Bao and Niuhuang. A total of research fine end, one point each time, twice a day. Children under two years old should be reduced. (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine)

② Treatment of tuberculosis: mabao two money, Baibu two money, Baiji four money. A total of research fine end, each time half money to a money, daily service three times. (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine)

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