lime

lime

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] chalky ash (Ben Jing), Xi Hui (BIE Lu), Shi chalky (Tao Hongjing), ran Hui, San Hui, Bai Hui, Wei Hui (Shi Yao Er Ya), forging stone (RI Hua Zi Ben Cao), Shi forging (Ben Cao Tu Jing), mineral ash (Gang Mu).

[source] limestone is calcined by heating.

Limestone

It is mainly composed of calcite and is a compact massive body. Dull, earthy or stony luster. The color changes greatly, depending on the type and amount of impurities. Transparency is also poor. When it is very dense, the fracture surface is usually scallop like.

(1) quicklime

It is irregular block, white or grayish white, opaque. It's hard. The powder is white. Soluble in acid, slightly soluble in water. After exposed to the air to absorb moisture, it gradually weathering and mature lime.

② Hydrated lime

Also known as: hydrated lime. It is white or grayish white powder with occasional lumps.

[chemical composition] limestone is mainly composed of calcium carbonate, and common inclusions are silicic acid, iron, aluminum, magnesium, etc.

When limestone is heated with high calcium oxide, carbon dioxide will be left. When quicklime meets with water, it becomes hydrated lime, which is composed of calcium hydroxide. Quicklime or hydrated lime is exposed in the atmosphere and continuously absorbs the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to form calcium carbonate; therefore, the composition of lime becomes calcium carbonate when it has been aged for a long time.

It is pungent, warm and poisonous.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes pungent and warm. "

② Shu materia medica: "poisonous. "

③ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "sweet taste, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] 1. In Ben Cao Qiu Zhen: "into the liver and spleen. "

② Summary of materia medica: "enter the hand foot Taiyin and Jueyin meridians. "

Functions and indications: dryness and dampness, killing insects, hemostasis, relieving pain and eroding flesh. Treatment of scabies, wet sores, trauma bleeding, soup fire burns, hemorrhoids, prolapse, warts. Take orally to stop diarrhea and diarrhea, and collapse.

① Ben Jing: "it is mainly used for gangrene, scabies, fever, scabies, dead muscles, falling eyebrows, killing hemorrhoids, removing sunspots and polyps. "

② Bielu: "treating marrow and gangrene. "

③ According to the theory of medicinal properties, "it is very good to treat scabies, corrode the flesh, and stop the bleeding of golden sores. "

④ Rihuazi materia medica: "it can produce muscle and grow meat, stop bleeding, and treat vitiligo, ulcer, scar, etc., as well as cold air, hemorrhoids, fistulas, gangrene, galls and warts. And the treatment of postpartum Yin can not be combined, concentrated decoction fumigation. Treat wine poison, warm water dirty. "

⑤ "The compendium of Medical Sciences" states: "dispersing blood and relieving pain, stopping water and purging blood and flesh, leucorrhea and leucorrhea, removing prolapse of anus and Yin, eliminating accumulation of tuberculosis, drinking by mouth, black hair. "

⑥ "Yilin zuanyao" says: "purging heart and strengthening kidney, breaking blood stasis, accumulating lung and clearing gold, killing insects and detoxifying. "

[usage and dosage] external use: grind and apply, or use water to dissolve and clarify. Oral administration: into the pill, powder, or dissolved with water, take clear liquid service.

[selection] ① treatment of scabies: wash it with stone and lime juice. (sun Zhenren's food taboo)

② Treatment of summer month heat rash and heat sores: pueraria powder 1 (3) Liang, lime 1 or 2 (micro fried), licorice 2 liang (raw for the end). On the medicine phase and, research order even, with the soft flutter. (Sheng Hui Fang)

③ Treatment of stroke and rash: apply with lime and vinegar. (yuan Xisheng secret prescription)

④ Treatment of traumatic bleeding: Chen lime two liang, borneol two money, alum two money (calcined). Stir fry the lime, add borneol and alum, grind into fine powder, sprinkle on the wound and bandage. (selection of new medical therapies based on single prescription)

⑤ In the treatment of hemorrhoids, the anus is swollen and hard, and the itching pain is unbearable: three liang of weathered lime, three liang of genkwa, two liang of black coal in the kitchen. Add medicine and pound Luo as the end, divide it into two parts, stir fry it with vinegar in the Yao, heat it, wrap it with silk and iron it, and change it when it is cold. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑥ For the treatment of long-term accumulation of large intestine, deficiency and cold, every time due to stool prolapse, can't income: Lime boil make hot, so silk wrap, sit on it, cold change. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑦ Treatment partial fall Qitong: Chen lime (fried), gallnut, gardenia, etc. For the end, the face and vinegar tune the application. (medical abstract)

⑧ Go wart eye: bitter wine stains lime 6, 7 days, take juice drop on wart. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑨ Treatment of cheek swelling and pain: apply it with vinegar and lime. (simple formula)

⑩ For the treatment of phlegm, swelling, cold and heat, it looks like a scrofula: calcined with lime as the end, and pasted with white pulp, honey can also be used. (Huo Xin Tong)

(11) treatment of swelling: three points for lime and two points for horsetooth. On two flavor pound, with chicken white and apply it. (Qian Jin Fang)

(12) treatment of dysentery for decades: three liters of lime, stir fry to make yellow, stir with a bucket of water, make clear, take one liter, take three. (waitai)

Treatment of leucorrhea, leucorrhea and watery diarrhea: weathered lime one or two, white Poria cocos three or two. For the end, paste pill Wuzi big. Take two or thirty-nine of them each, and drink the hollow rice. (jixuanfang)

(14) treatment of abdominal and hypochondriac lumps: half a kilogram of weathered lime, extremely hot in earthenware, add one or two pieces of rhubarb powder, stir fry red, take it up, add half a pair of cinnamon powder, slightly heat it, add rice vinegar and paste, spread it on silk, and take xiaokuai medicine orally. (Danxi Xinfa)

[clinical application] ① treatment of chronic tracheitis

Take 0.5 Jin of lime, add 5 jin of purified water, stir and precipitate for 24 hours, take the supernatant and filter. Take it three times a day, 20-30 ml each time. Or take 0.5 Jin of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, decoct twice to remove the residue, concentrate the solution to about 200 ml, add it into the lime solution to make it 2000 ml, and the content of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi is about 10%. Take it three times a day, 20-30 ml each time. 162 cases were treated. After 4 months follow-up, 2 cases were cured, 36 cases were markedly effective, 112 cases were improved and 12 cases were ineffective.

② Treatment of lower limb ulcer

Take the old lime to remove the floating dirt, grind the fine powder and spread the wound. The wound surface should be cleaned before use, and then the boric acid ointment dressing should be applied. If the wound wet water dripping, single powder can be used. It also has curative effect on long-term injury, tattered frostbite and scald. After treatment, more than 200 cases were cured.

③ Treating burns

Take 1 jin of quicklime into the basin, add 1250 ml of cold boiled water, when the lime deliquescence into paste, gently shake the basin to make the lime sink to the bottom, take about 500 g of the upper residue free lime milk, add 8 egg white, stir into jelly sample, then add 60 ml of sesame oil, mix well to get "lime cream". When using, first use tweezers to flatten the floating skin of the injured surface, and do not move the blister eschar, and do not use any liquid medicine to disinfect; take 3-4 layers of gauze larger than the injured surface, spread 1-1.5cm thick lime cream, and stick it on the injured surface, bandage and fix it, with appropriate tightness. After 48 hours, the ointment was coagulated and fixed. If the wound is in the neck, armpit, Nai nest, the medicine should be thick, and the wound should not be bent within 48 hours after bandaging, so as to prevent cream falling off and skin adhesion. When the gauze and lime cream were removed for 10-15 days, the blisters could be absorbed and the eschar could fall off. At this time, the injured face is itchy, but it is not suitable to scratch. After the cream is dry, there is a sense of tightness on the injured face. You can apply sesame oil on the outside of the gauze. For patients with large burn area and infected wound surface, infection should be controlled in time to prevent shock and maintain the balance of water and electrolyte. According to another report, 500 grams of hydrated lime powder, 1000 ml of cold boiled water, stir well and let it stand, filter out the clarified liquid, and mix it with the same amount of peanut oil (boiling and waiting for cooling) to make scald oil. Shake the oil well and apply it to the affected area. 72 cases were treated, of which 48 cases of Ⅰ degree were cured after 1-3 times of medication; 21 cases of Ⅱ degree were cured after 2-3 times of medication, 9 cases were cured after 3 times of medication, 12 cases were cured after 3 times of medication; 3 cases of Ⅲ degree were also cured after 10-30 times of medication.

④ Treatment of tinea capitis

Take half a bowl of fresh weathered lime, add water to 1 bowl, stir and precipitate for 3 minutes, take the upper emulsion, add about 4 drops of tung oil, stir vigorously, remove excess water to make it into paste, and apply it on the affected part. Treatment of more than 60 cases, generally only a few times that is effective.

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