Stone swallow

Stone swallow

(Tang materia medica)

Another name is shiyanzi (shenghuifang).

[source] it is a fossil of the Paleozoic brachiopod stone swallows and related animals.

[collection] wash the soil after harvest.

[herbal medicine] it is slightly kidney shaped and flat, 2-3cm long and 1.5-4cm wide. Its surface is bluish gray to earthy brown, and its two sides are uplifted in the center, with ginkgo leaf like texture. One side of the ridge has a longitudinal groove in the middle of the ridge, one end of which is thin and spreads out to the other end, the thin end bends downward to make a bird peck shape, and there is also a transverse groove under it leading to both sides. It is as hard as stone and not easy to be broken; after crushing, the cross section is bluish gray to brown, or some of it is white gravel piled into granules. The air is weak and the taste is light. There is a layer of white glossy film on the surface of calcined stone swallow, which is easy to fall off. If this layer is removed, it will appear scarlet or brown, and the section is gray and rough. It is better to have the shape of Scapharca subcrenata, the color of green black, the quality of hard, no miscellaneous stone.

Produced in Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Shanxi, Jiangxi and other places.

[chemical composition] it is mainly calcium carbonate with a small amount of phosphoric acid and silica.

[processing] it can be used to wash the soil, dry it in the sun, smash it or fly it by water. It can also be used to smash it or fly it by water after calcination.

① "Pinhuijingyao": "Shiyan, research fine, water flying over the use. "

② Introduction to medicine: "Shiyan, calcined and vinegar quenched seven times, another research. "

[flavor] salty, cool.

① "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "cool, non-toxic. "

② "Pinhuijingyao": "the taste is light and the nature is cool. "

③ "Gangmu": "sweet, cool, non-toxic. "

④ Yilin zuanyao: "Xianxin, cold. "

[Guijing] yuluoyaojie: "entering the kidney of foot Shaoyin and bladder meridian of foot Taiyang. "

[function indications] it can remove dampness and heat, promote urination, and reduce vision. Treatment of gonorrhea, urine, blood, intestinal wind hemorrhoids leakage, eye obscuration.

① "Tang Materia Medica": "drink it with water, and it is mainly used for drenching. "

② In the collection of materia medica: "it is mainly used to quench thirst, take water from ox nose and boil and drink. "

③ "Introduction to medicine:" partial treatment of intestinal wind hemorrhoids leakage for a long time, boiling juice drink. "

④ "The compendium of Medical Sciences": "to treat the blinding eyes. "

⑤ "Yucatalpa medicine solution" said: "Lishui Tongjing, tourniquet, birth. It is used to treat diarrhea, heat, constipation, diabetes, leucorrhea and hemorrhoids. "

⑥ Yilin zuanyao: "the same as the stone crab, it can dispel wind and blood stasis. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-3 yuan, or grind juice. External use: water grinding.

[should avoid] body deficiency, no damp heat and pregnant women should not take it.

[prescription selection] ① to treat typhoid fever, urinary obstruction and abdominal distension: shiyanhuo calcination is the end. Onion soup tune the next word. (Shi Yan San, general micro prescription for children's health)

② Cure urination drench painful: Stone swallow 7 pieces (pound millet big), new mulberry root white skin 3 Liang (file). Mix well. Each paste with water, fried seven minutes, hollow, one before noon. (brief aid to all)

③ Treatment of blood drenching upset: Stone swallow, Phytolacca acinosa, red beans, safflower, etc. It's the end. Each service - money, onion soup tune down. (Sheng Hui Fang)

④ It's hard to bear the pain of treating sand and stone drenching: stone swallows (burn to make it red, quench it in water once or twice, grind it in water, and bake it), talc, stone reed (remove hair) and Qu Mai Sui (one or two each). For the end, paste pills such as Wutong son. Decoct Qumai and Dengxin decoction, take ten pills before eating, two or three days. (Shi Yan Wan, San Yin Fang)

⑤ Under the rule of red and white belt, more than one stone swallow has been used for many years. Wear water clothes. (Xu's family recipe)

⑥ For a long time, she has suffered from intestinal wind, hemorrhoids and leakage for one or two decades. Her complexion is yellow, her diet is tasteless, and she has suffered from visceral damage. She often suffers from diarrhea. In summer, she is often turbid, and all kinds of leaching. She has suffered from thirst for a long time. The woman's moon is turbid, and her leucorrhea is red. For many years, she is not bad: take it with Shiyan's warm water, such as a big pill, and take it in three parts. The size is based on this, and take it more before eating late. If you want to make powder, you need to grind it carefully. If the water flies by, take the white juice like swill milk, clear it, remove the water and dry it. Half to one yuan for each meal, you can have a clear meal and warm water. (lingyuanfang)

⑦ A pair of stone swallows for the treatment of fists and trichiasis. Rub some water on your eyes. First remove the fist hair with tweezers, then point the medicine, and then wash it with Coptis chinensis. (business in heaven and earth)

⑧ Three pairs of Shiyan (calcined and vinegar quenched seven times), one or two of green salt and one or two of frankincense, and half of Asarum. Gargle with Schizonepeta tenuifolia soup. One side to the frankincense, asarum, add musk. (compendium)

Chinese PinYin : Shi Yan