borax

borax

(rihuazi materia medica)

[synonyms] dabengsha (danfangjianyuan), Pengsha, Pengsha (rihuazi materia medica), Yueshi (sanyefang), Pensha (compendium).

[source] it is the crystal of refined borax.

Borax

Monoclinic system. They are short columnar crystals. Most of them are granular and earthy blocks. Usually white or light gray, light yellow, light blue or light green. The stripes are white. Glass or grease luster. Translucent to opaque. The cleavage is good and the fracture is shell like. The hardness is 2-2.5. The specific gravity is 1.69-1.72. It is crisp and has a sweet salty taste. Transparent borax, long time in the air will become white powder. It is mainly produced in dry salt lakes containing boron.

[collection] generally, the ore is mined from August to November. The ore is dissolved in boiling water, filtered and poured into the cylinder. Several horizontal rods are placed on the cylinder. There are two hemp ropes on the rod. An iron nail is hung at the bottom of the hemp rope to make the rope sink into the solution vertically. After cooling, there are crystals on the rope and at the bottom of the cylinder, which are taken out for drying. The one on the rope is called "Moonstone Pendant", and the one at the bottom of the jar is called "Moonstone".

[herbal medicine] it is composed of rhombic, columnar or granular crystals in irregular blocks with different sizes, colorless, transparent or white, translucent, and glassy luster. After a long time, it will be weathered into white powder, opaque and slightly fat like luster. It is light, brittle and fragile. Without Qi, it tastes salty and bitter. Colorless, transparent and clean crystal is better. Soluble in cold water, soluble in hot water, alkaline solution. When burned, it is easy to melt. At first, it is bulky and fluffy, and then it melts into a transparent glass ball.

It is mainly produced in Qinghai and Tibet. In addition, it is also produced in Yunnan, Xinjiang, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.

[chemical composition] is sodium tetraborate.

[pharmacological action] it is a weak base, which has weak bacteriostatic action as boric acid. Borax containing 10% of culture medium by plate method can inhibit Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus anthracis, Shigella dysentery, Shigella dysentery, typhoid, paratyphoid, proteus, Staphylococcus and Candida albicans. It is proved by paper method that borax can also inhibit diphtheria, Brucella bovis, Diplococcus pneumoniae, meningococcus and lysozyme Streptococcus sanguinis, etc. Can be used to wash ulcers, abscesses, especially mucosal inflammation, such as conjunctivitis, gastritis, etc., because it is alkaline, can make the mucosa scaling, oral for urethral sterilization, especially when the urine is acidic, can make it alkaline.

Borax: ground into fine powder. Calcined borax: Smash borax into small pieces, heat it in a pot, stir fry until it bubbles into snow-white lumps, take out and let cool.

① "Compendium": "borax is like flying dust. "

② "Seeking truth from Materia Medica": "borax, licorice soup boiling, stir fry with low heat. "

[flavor] sweet and salty, cool.

① "Gangmu": "sweet, slightly salty, cool, non-toxic. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is cool in nature, sweet and salty in taste, and has little poison. "

[channel tropism] entering lung and stomach channels.

① "Lei Gong's treatment of medicinal properties": entering the lung meridian. "

② "Ben Cao Hui Yan": "start with Taiyin and zuyang Ming Jing. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and phlegm, detoxifying and antiseptic. Treatment of sore throat, sore mouth and tongue, eye red Yizhang, bone choking, choking diaphragm, cough, phlegm thick.

① "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "eliminate phlegm, stop coughing, break the throat obstruction. "

② "Ben Cao Yan Yi": "it can transform the pharyngeal fluid, treat swelling and pain in the throat, phlegm heat on the diaphragm. "

③ Compendium: "it is used to treat Shangjiao phlegm heat, Shengjin liquid, remove breath, eliminate obstructions, eliminate choking, diaphragmatic nausea, accumulation of blood stasis, Yin stagnation, bone choking, sores and mouth and other diseases. "

④ Bencao tongxuan: "kill Laochong. "

⑤ "Seeking the source of Materia Medica" says: "if it is born, it will be decomposed; if it is calcined and withered, it will produce muscle. "

[usage and dosage] external use: grind very fine powder, sprinkle or adjust. Oral administration: into the pill, powder, 0.5 ~ 1 money.

[taboo] take orally with caution.

"Materia medica Huiyan:" Yin deficiency, fluid dryness, marrow exhaustion, camp dry, resulting in lung flaccidity, heat distention, Bi stuffy impassable princes, law should be banned. "

[selection] 1. To treat qi stagnation, phlegm stagnation, fire stagnation, and throat distention: Pengsha Yiqian. Put it in your mouth and hold it in your mouth

② Treatment of sore throat: Pengsha, Baimei, etc. Mash the balls and thicken the seeds. One pill for each. (the coffin breaking pill of experience prescription)

③ Treatment of sore throat and walking horse throat: Pengsha, horse teeth nitrate each one, dansha half, cantharides two (to head, wings, feet, fried). The last four flavors are the last, the cooked ginger paste is made from natural ginger juice, and the pill is like Wutong Zi, and the tea is made of wax tea. Take two pills for each, and then take the tea. (Pengsha pill in Shengji Zonglu)

④ For the treatment of wind and heat in the throat, borax (Shengyan) and alum (Shengyan) are one yuan each, while xiniuhuang and renzhaojia (baocui) are one point each. For the very fine end, with rotten white frost plum meat three money, research paste is divided into four pills, hold water, take Chung stubborn phlegm. (borax pill in Zhang Shi Yi Tong)

⑤ Treatment of throat and mouth new long swelling and pain and long cough phlegm fire sore throat: xuanmingfen, borax each five money, cinnabar six points, borneol five points. A total of very fine powder, blowing rub, even five or six times a day. (Bing Bo San, authentic surgery)

⑥ Treatment of tongue swelling: good borax for fine powder, with a thin batch of ginger dipped in medicine to wipe the swelling of the tongue, less time to retreat. (Puji Fang)

⑦ Treatment of halitosis, dry mouth, aphthous ulcer: Borax two liang, piece of brain, musk each one money, horse teeth nitrate (weathering) four Liang, cold water stone (calcined) ten Liang. For the fine powder, with licorice ointment and pills, such as pockmarked seeds, regardless of when containing a pill pharynx Jin. (borax pill in "effective prescription"

⑧ Cure thrush: Borax two money, realgar three money, licorice one money, borneol two points five percent. The top is fine powder, mixed with honey or water. (sibaodan in the complete works of Yangyi)

⑨ Governance choking food: buckwheat straw burning ash drenching juice, into the pot, fried cream a money, into the Pengsha a money, research powder, each wine half money. (maritime side)

⑩ Detoxify poultry. And the treatment of malignant sores: Pengsha 42, grind fine, true vegetable oil 1 jin, soak in the bottle. In case of poison, take a small cup of oil. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

(11) treatment of chronic tracheitis: borax, South Star, white mustard each equal amount, a total of fine powder research. Take it twice a day for six minutes. (selected materials of new medical treatment of Chinese herbal medicine, Inner Mongolia)

(12) treatment of pain and swelling caused by snake bite: borax or two. Grind the scallion in the garden, take the scallion horn tip, pour in the borax powder, cover it with the horn tip for 17 days, hold the scallion, pour the borax juice on a piece of thin paper, and dry in the shade. Every time in the wound, take money hole big paper stick it. (borax powder in Puji Fang)

Treatment of lumbar sprain: a small amount of xiyueshi powder is put on the inner canthus angle of the eye at night before going to bed. The left sprain point is the right corner of the eye, and the right sprain point is the left corner of the eye. Generally one to three times. You may shed tears after taking the medicine. (Zhejiang Journal of traditional Chinese medicine 9 (1): 241966)

[clinical application] 1

Take borax orally. The patients with rare seizures were 0.3 g each time, the patients with frequent seizures were 0.5 g each time, 3 times a day; the patients with major or persistent seizures were 1 g each time, 4 times a day. At the same time, phenytoin sodium, vitamin D and calcium were used as adjuvant therapy. In patients with persistent epilepsy, 10% calcium gluconate 1g was injected intravenously twice a day and stopped after symptom control. The course of treatment was 3 months. Stop using phenytoin sodium from the second course of treatment; do not stop using phenytoin sodium before the beginning of borax course of treatment, otherwise it is easy to cause seizures or persistent seizures. If other antiepileptic drugs have been used before borax treatment, they should be cross applied when using borax treatment, and the original drug should be stopped gradually. Otherwise, when using borax alone, the dose should be doubled. Ten cases were observed, of which 9 cases were patients with major seizures and 1 case was patients with persistent seizures. All cases were treated with various antiepileptic drugs for a long time, but their authors could not be controlled. After the treatment of the above methods, all patients had a significant effect in the first course of treatment, the number of seizures was significantly reduced, the consciousness was only a few seconds when the seizure was vague, like a small epileptic state, and some patients had only individual limbs or mandible involvement without loss of consciousness. In the second course of treatment, 7 cases were able to control the symptom attack completely, and 3 cases still had sparse small attack or limited attack. Most patients took it continuously for more than one year, and no adverse reaction or toxic reaction occurred. This method has no effect on temporal lobe epilepsy; it is better not to use it in patients with liver and kidney insufficiency.

② Treatment of flash waist

Put borax in an iron spoon, calcine it on fire, and grind it into very fine powder for standby. With the patient lying on his back, pick calcined borax powder a little, point two eyes canthus and "gingival cross" gas. After lying still for 4-5 minutes, the tears will flow out spontaneously. Then let the patient do bending, turning, squatting and other movements to move the waist. More than 100 cases were treated. Generally, the pain was relieved after medication, and most cases were cured 1-3 times. After medication, the effect is significant for those with more tears. This method is also effective for stiff neck, but it is not effective for patients with lumbar disc herniation and injury.

③ Treatment of mycotic vaginitis

After mixing 97% borax with 3% borneol, add cold cream which accounts for 50-60% of the total dosage, and mix well. Take a speculum to dilate the vagina, then apply ice boron cream evenly around the vaginal wall and vulva, once a day, 5 days as a course of treatment. 144 cases were treated and 82 cases were followed up. Among 59 cases treated by one course, 50 cases were cured; among 17 cases treated by two courses, 16 cases were cured; among 6 cases treated by three courses, 3 cases were cured. The total cure rate was 84.1%.

[discussion by famous experts] 1. In the compendium, borax is sweet in taste, slightly salty and cool in gas, white in color and qualitative in quality, so it can remove the heat of the upper Jiao of the chest and diaphragm. It is said in the book of seven turbulent questions that heat is in the interior, which is treated by salty and cold, and by sweet and slow. Its performance is soft, hard and dirty, so it can treat the accumulation of choking diaphragm and bone tuberculosis. For those who use evil meat and Yin, take its soft material; for those who use phlegm heat and eyes blocking, take its descaling. "

② "Borax, color"

Chinese PinYin : Peng Sha