Clam shell

(yinpianxinshen)

Another name: Sea clam (Ben Jing), clam shell (Ben Cao Yuan).

[source] it is the shell of several sea clams, such as Cyclina sinensis.

[animal morphology] clam

2 shells, nearly round. The shell is about 36.5-56 mm in length, several times as high as its length, and about 2 / 3 of its width. The top of the shell protrudes and lies in the center of the dorsal side, with the tip bent forward. There is no meniscus, the? Surface is long and narrow, all occupied by ligaments, the ligaments are yellowish brown, and do not protrude from the shell surface. The surface of the shell is very protruding, and the growth line at the top is fine and dense, not very significant, but gradually thick to the ventral surface, protruding from the shell surface. The shell surface is light yellow or brown red. The inner surface of the shell is white or light flesh color, and the edge has neat teeth. The smaller the teeth are, the larger the dorsal margin is. The hinge part is long and narrow, and the left and right shells each have three main teeth. The tunica sinus is deep, extending obliquely from the ventral margin to the center of the shell, with wide posterior end and narrow anterior end. The scar of anterior adductor is slender and semilunar, while the scar of posterior adductor is large and oval. Feet flat, tongue shaped.

It lives on the muddy and sandy sea floor. It is distributed along the coast of China.

[collection] from April to October. Remove the meat, wash and dry.

[medicinal material] the shell is round like with yellowish white appearance. The top of the shell is tilted to one side, and there are closely arranged concentric ring patterns, along which there are several gray blue wheel patterns, and the ventral margin is fine toothed. The inner surface of the shell is milky white or bluish white, smooth and without grain. It is light, hard and slightly brittle, with no obvious cross-section lamination. It's slightly fishy and tasteless. It is better to be smooth and clean.

Mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Fujian and other places.

In addition to the above-mentioned one, the shell of Meretrix meretrix is also used. See "Meretrix".

[chemical composition] it contains calcium carbonate, cuticle, etc.

[processing] clam shell: wash, dry and grind into pieces. Calcined clam shell: take out the clam shell and place it on the non pyrotechnic stove until it is red, then take it out to cool and crush it. Clam powder: grind the clam shell to a fine powder.

"Lei Gong's treatise on frying" says: "when one or two sea clams are boiled in slurry water for one volt, they are then boiled for another. Then they are washed in Dongliu water for three times, dried, pounded, ground and used. For every one or two, use two liang of land and two liang of bone, and file them with fine files, and wash them with flowing water from the East. "

[flavor] salty, flat.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes bitter and flat. "

② Wupu materia medica: "Qibo: Gan. Bianque: salty. "

③ Bielu: "salty, nontoxic. "

④ "On medicinal properties": "it tastes salty and has little poison. "

[Guijing] 1. Bencao Huiyan: "enter the hand foot Taiyang and Yangming scriptures. "

② Yao Yao Fen Ji: "entering the heart and kidney meridians. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, resolving phlegm, softening and strengthening. Treatment of heat, phlegm, asthma, cough, edema, gonorrhea, gall, tumor, accumulation, blood knot, chest pain, blood dysentery, hemorrhoids, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea.

① "Ben Jing": "the main cough, adverse upper Qi, wheezing, full of trouble, chest pain, cold and hot. "

② Bielu: "treating Yin flaccidity. "

③ "Treatise on medicinal properties": "it can treat edema of water and Qi, urinate, cough, upper Qi and gall under the neck. "

④ "Tang Materia Medica": "the main twelve water full of acute pain, benefit bladder, intestines and intestines. "

⑤ Four tones of materia medica: "stop thirst, moisten five internal organs. "

⑥ Rihuazi materia medica: "it can cure nausea, Yin flaccidity, chest and hypochondriac distension, lumbago, five hemorrhoids, and women's collapse and leucorrhea. "

⑦ Compendium: "clearing heat and removing dampness, resolving phlegm drink, eliminating accumulation, removing blood dysentery, women's blood forming chest, typhoid anti perspiration, tetany, Zhongfeng paralysis. "

⑧ Modern practical Chinese medicine: "it can treat gonorrhea and diuresis. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-4 Qian; or into pills, powder.

[taboo] 1. Notes on the classic of materia medica: "Shu lacquer is its envoy. Fear of dog gall. "

② "Materia medica Huiyan:" the cause of disease is heat evil, phlegm stagnation and qi stagnation. If Qi deficiency is accompanied by cold and the middle Yang is not transported, it should not be given lightly. "

[prescription selection] ① for cough, asthma and phlegm: clam shell, mulberry skin, perilla, three coins each, and Trichosanthes five coins each. Take it in water. (Shandong Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine)

② Treatment of phlegm and heartache: Sea clam (burn to ashes, research very fine, after a few days, fire poison powder, use it), Ren (DI Tong Research). On the sea clam into the Trichosanthes, dry and wet for the pill. Take 50 pills each time. (compendium of Medicine)

③ Treatment of edema, cough on the gas, can not sit and lie: clam one or two (careful study), sweet Tingli one or two (fried with paper to make purple), Han one or two, almond one point (soup dip). Peeled, pointed, double kernel, stir fried with bran (slightly yellow), one or two kansui (slightly yellow by simmering), one or two mulberry root white skin (file). On the medicine, pound Luo for the end, with jujube meat and, pound two or three hundred pestle, the ball as big as a son. Every time before eating, take seven pills with hemp seed soup. (Sheng Hui Fang)

④ Cure infantile malnutrition forever, swollen full of breath: Sea clam, Fangji each one, radish 30. Last is the last. Three years old, one money, wine, even into two clothes, small convenience, namely effect. (sea clam powder in Puji Fang)

⑤ For the treatment of head and face edema, restlessness or cough and asthma: one or two clams (mashed and ground like noodles), three parts of Kansui (ground like noodles, silk like noodles, white noodles and other ingredients) and one or two parts (soaked in soup, peeled, stir fried and ground). For the first three flavors, take one or two mulberry roots and white skins, and boil them with two liters of water. If they are tender, add 30 dried jujubes, break them, boil them together, take one liter, remove the dross, take the first medicine, and, for example, cook them until they are ripe. Take them on an empty stomach. Instant quick benefit, a lot of urine. No wonder. (sea clam cake in Shengji Zonglu)

⑥ Treatment of gall: Sea clam (Research), (horsetail, soup wash salty, baked), white (black skin), Pinellia ternata (boiled one, two boiling, to slide, cut, baked) each half two. Take one coin dagger for each serving, one foot of sweet vine for each serving, one inch of water for each serving, one and a half for each frying, three times. Every time I disperse two money daggers, I'll lie in my clothes. (Haige powder in Shengji Zonglu)

⑦ Treatment of lymph node tuberculosis, goiter: clam shell four money, seaweed, oyster each five money, six money. Take it in water. (Shandong Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine)

⑧ For the treatment of women with typhoid fever and blood stasis in the chest and diaphragm, kneading and pain can not be touched: clam, licorice (fried) each one or two, half two. It's scattered when you pound it. Two bucks for each serving, the chicken is clear. (Haige powder in Lei Zheng huoren Shu)

⑨ Treatment of blood dysentery and internal heat: Sea clam powder, honey water, two money, two days. (Liu Yuxi's chuanxinfang)

⑩ The treatment of epistaxis is more than one: clam powder or two (grind very fine, Luo five or seven times), half two (stir fry until scorched, grind to powder). The upper research order is very uniform. Every time I take one money, I'll draw new water. If it's small, it's only half a dollar. It can also cure hematochezia at any time. (Shen Bai San in Yang's family collection)

(11) treatment of vulvitis, vulvar eczema and vulvar ulcer: the sum of one yuan for calcined clam powder and one yuan for Zhangdan is four points and four points respectively. The ointment was made from liquid paraffin. After cleaning the affected part, apply the medicine to the affected part and cover it with gauze twice a day. (selected works of the exhibition: Obstetrics and Gynecology)

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