Stone crab

Stone crab

(rihuazi materia medica)

[synonym] fossil crab.

[source] it is the fossil of Paleozoic arthropod stone crab and other related animals.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round, picked up, washed and dried.

[herbal medicine] the whole shape is similar to crab, but most of them are incomplete. They are usually oblate or irregular with several legs. It is 3-5 cm long, 3-13 cm wide and 1.8 cm thick. The back is brown to dark brown, smooth or with a little protuberance, fashionable, with the texture of crab back, and the depression is mostly with soil. The color of the abdomen is light, the surface is mostly damaged, or there are nodal feet, and the sunken and broken feet are often filled with soil. It is as hard as stone and not fragile. It strikes each other and sounds like porcelain. The section is grayish brown and stony. The flavor is slightly salty. Those with complete body, green color and strong quality are preferred.

Produced in Taiwan, Sichuan and Nanyang islands.

[chemical composition] is mainly calcium carbonate.

[processing] wash the soil, mash it or use it in water. Or calcined vinegar quenching, drying, grinding into fine powder can also be.

[flavor] salty, cold.

① Rihuazi materia medica: "cool. "

② Kaibao materia medica: "salty, cold, nontoxic. "

③ "Yucatalpa medicine solution": bitter and salty taste, cold nature. "

[Guijing] into the liver and gallbladder channels.

① "Yuluoyaojie" says: "start with Shaoyin heart and foot Shaoyang gallbladder meridian. "

② "To match Materia Medica": "enter the foot Jueyin meridian. "

[functions and indications] it can clear the liver and eyesight, reduce swelling and detoxify. It is used to treat redness of eyes, covering eyes with pannus, obstruction of larynx, carbuncle, lacquer sore.

① Rihuazi materia medica: "it can relieve all kinds of drugs and poisons, give birth to abortion, treat blood circulation, eliminate carbuncle, and treat Tianxing heat disease. And cooked water grinding clothes. "

② "Kaibao Materia Medica" said: "the main green blind lewd skin Yi and Ding Yi lacquer sore. "

③ "The book of materia medica:" vinegar grinding, application carbuncle swelling, but also the solution of stone poison. "

④ "Materia medica Mengluo": "flat carbuncle sweep rash, with vinegar grinding compress. "

⑤ "Clearing heart and relieving heat" in yucatalpa medicinal solution. "

[usage and dosage] for external use: grind the eyes carefully or grind and apply with vinegar. Oral: water grinding juice, 2 ~ 3 money; or into the pill powder.

[taboo] pinhuijingyao: "pregnancy should not be taken. "

[prescription selection] ① tuiyi Mingmu, Quganre: three liang of stone crab, one or two of cortex rehmanniae, one or two of Fructus aurantii (stir fried with wheat bran), three liang of niuteng (soaked with wine), one or two of Fangfeng, half liang of old paper (stir fried), half liang of licorice, half liang of Equisetum, half liang of wolfberry, half liang of chamomile, half liang of raw rehmannia. For the fine, the honey is the pill, and the Wutong seed is big. Take 20 pills each time, and serve hot soup. (SHIXIE pill in "health home treasure recipe")

② Treatment of throat water slurry not into: stone crab, cold water grinding drink, and coated on the throat. (Sheng Ji Zong Lu)

③ Treatment of pregnancy Zi Lin, day and night frequent astringent pain: stone crab (broken) a, frankincense a, talc half. The upper three flavors are refined into powder. Every time you take a dagger, you can fry the lantern soup. (Shi Xie San, Shengji Zonglu)

Chinese PinYin : Shi Xie