Sea pumice

(Materia Medica from the beginning)

[synonyms] Shuihua (a collection of Materia Medica), Haishi (danxixinfa), shuipaoshi (a treasure of Eastern medicine), fuhaishi (yuluoyaojie), fushuishi (yilinzuoyao), Morchella (a collection of medicinal materials).

[source] it is the massive mass of igneous rock pumice or the skeleton of poropodiaceae, such as Bryozoa spinosa and Bryozoa.

[mineral form] pumice

Amorphous. Generally white, light gray, occasionally light red. It has a standard porous structure, like a moth nest, sometimes with tubular structure. Dull or silky surface. It's brittle. Small specific gravity, floating in water. It is volcanic eruption rock, mainly composed of vitreous, occasionally containing a small amount of crystalline minerals.

Morphology of Bryozoa

A group of fixed aquatic animals. Hermaphrodite. The population is usually dendritic. The individual is small and saccate. In vitro, the secretory substance and colloidal substance form the skeleton of the colony. There is a mouth at the front of the body, a horseshoe shaped protuberance at the margin of the mouth, and many tentacles on it. The alimentary canal flexes into a "U" shape, and the anus is also in the front of the body.

Often attached to the seashore reef. It is distributed all over the south coast of China.

② Carex tumefaciens

Similar to the above species, the population is tumor like and light yellowish brown.

It is often attached to corals, gorgonians and rocks. The distribution is the same as above.

(1) pumice

It can be harvested all year round, especially in summer. Take it out of the sea and dry it in the sun.

② The skeleton of Bryozoa spinalis and Bryozoa tumefaciens

From June to October, they were fished out from the sea, washed with clean water to remove the salt and mud, and dried in the sun.

(1) pumice

It is an irregular block with different sizes, usually 2-7 cm in diameter, some up to 20 cm. The surface is rough, with many pores of different sizes, grayish white or grayish yellow. It is hard and brittle, easy to break, rough section, with small holes, some with silk like luster or no. It's light, floating but not sinking in water. Weak breath, weak taste. It is better to be light, grey and floating.

Produced in Guangdong, Fujian, Shandong, Liaoning and other places.

② (Ben Cao Yan Yi)

It is the skeleton of T. carinata or T. tumefaciens. The skeleton of a T. carinata is irregular coral like block, slightly oblate or oblong. They are of different sizes, 2-5 cm in diameter. Grayish white or grayish yellow. The base is slightly flat, the other side is more protuberant, branching like forks, and the middle part is interwoven like a network. Forked branchlets are 3-5 mm long and 2 mm in diameter. Most of them are broken, and a few of them are obtuse. The material is hard and brittle, with dense pores on the surface and section. The body is light and does not sink into the water. The gas is slightly fishy and the taste is slightly salty. The skeletons of Bryozoa are irregular, 1-3cm in diameter, mostly fragmentary. The surface is grayish yellow or grayish black. Coralliform branches short and thick, ca. 4 mm in diam. Apex obtuse, rarely broken. The smell is the same as above.

Produced in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong.

[chemical composition] the chemical composition of pumice is quite different. Generally, it is made of silicate of aluminum, potassium and sodium, that is, a glass like mineral with SiO2 as the main component. Because most of them are from seawater, they may also contain chlorine, magnesium and other substances in seawater.

Stone flower is mainly calcium carbonate, and contains a small amount of magnesium, iron and acid insoluble substances.

Sea pumice: washed, dried and ground. Calcined pumice: put the pure pumice in the sand tank, calcine it thoroughly in the furnace fire, take it out, cool it and crush it.

[flavor] salty, cold.

① "Materia medica collection": "flat, non-toxic. "

② Zhu Zhenheng: "salty. "

③ Compendium: "great cold. "

[channel tropism] entering lung and kidney channels.

① "Yuluoyaojie" says: "start with Taiyin lung meridian, foot Jueyin liver meridian. "

② Ben Cao Qiu Zhen: "into the lung, kidney. "

Functions and indications: clearing lung fire, dissolving phlegm, softening and strengthening, and clearing away drenching. It is used to treat phlegm heat, asthmatic cough, phlegm accumulation, gall, scrofula, gonorrhea, hernia, sore swelling, and pannus.

① Tao Hongjing: "cough. "

② "Ben Cao Shi Yi": Master thirst. "

③ Rihuazi materia medica: "quench thirst, cure drenching, kill beast poison. "

④ "Ben Cao Yan Yi" says: "water flies, and it can cure the haze in the eyes. "

⑤ Zhu Zhenheng: "Qingjin subdues fire, dissipates accumulation, and dissolves phlegm. "

⑥ "Compendium": "eliminate gall, tuberculosis, hernia, lower Qi, eliminate sore swelling. "

⑦ Ben Cao Zheng: "Xiaoshi, Xiaore Tan, Jiere Ke Relin, zhitan sou, Chuanji, Ruanjian, Lishui Shi. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan; or into pills, powder. External use: grind the end to scatter or water to fly to dot an eye.

[avoid] cough due to deficiency of cold should not be taken.

Bencao from the new: "taking more food to harm people's blood"

[selection of prescriptions] 1. Treating stroke and cough: two pairs of pumice stones. Pound Luo for the end, refining honey and pills as big as a son. Take porridge and drink ten pills every day. (Sheng Hui Fang)

② Treatment of children with asthma, all rheumatism, cough, phlegm and asthma: haifushi, Fei, almond each four money, two money, on the very fine end. Take two yuan for each, and mix it with fried soup. (haifushi talc powder, medical records)

③ Treatment of blood drenching, urine astringent pain: Yellow rotten pumice for the end, each take two money. Stir down the soup. (Haijin powder in renzhaizhizhifang)

④ Treatment of stone drenching: pumice, so that a full hand, under the screen, with three liters of water, vinegar one liter, boil two liters, clear service one liter, but three servings. It is also used to treat cough, which is boiled with pure wine. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑤ The treatment of small intestinal Qi, stem shrinkage cyst, yellow rotten pumice as the end. Take two yuan per serving, and then adjust the soup to light, red and fried soup. (Haijin powder in renzhaizhizhifang)

⑥ Treatment of hernia: sea stone. For the end, adjust the juice. It can also cure heartache. (Danxi Xinfa)

⑦ Treatment of diabetes: pumice, equal parts, a little. On the fine end. One yuan for each, warm soup. (the parties)

⑧ For the treatment of thirst and disease, drinking water is not enough: white pumice, clam powder and cicada shell (head and foot removed) are equally divided. Fine on the end, with seven crucian carp gall, tune three money service, regardless of the time. (Ben Shi Fang Shen Xiao San)

⑨ Treatment of sores, hair back, sores: white floating stone half two, two money. On the fine powder, paste for the ball, such as Tung big. Take six pills each time, and serve with cold wine. (old man's pill in Puji Fang)

⑩ There is pus at the bottom of the ear: one or two sea pumice, myrrh, musk. The upper part is fine. Use half a word and blow it into your ear. (myrrh powder in Puji Fang)

(11) cure chancre for a long time: Sea pumice. Shanghai stone two stop, honeysuckle a stop, the same fine end. It's two and a half yuan per serving. It's like signing tea. It's for daily use. Sore in the upper, after eating; in the lower, before eating. (Confucianist family affairs)

Zhu Zhenheng: "the sea stone, the treatment of phlegm accumulation block, salty can soft firm also. "

② "Compendium": "pumice, smell salty cold, run under the use. Therefore, entering the lung can remove the heat of upper Jiao phlegm, stop coughing, soften and firm, clear the upper source, and treat all kinds of gonorrhea. "

Chinese PinYin : Hai Fu Shi