Magnetite

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] Xuanshi (Ben Jing), cijun (Wu Pu Ben Cao), Cishi (Ben Cao Jing Ji Zhu), Chushi (BIE Lu), Yuanwu Shi (Shi Yao Er Ya), yitieshi (Qiankun business secret), xizhenshi (compendium), Zhushi (Ben Cao Qiu Zhen), sheshi (differentiation of drug production), Tieshi and Xi Tieshi (records of traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] the ore is magnetite.

[mineral form] magnetite (Shiya)

Isometric. The crystal is usually octahedron, a few are rhombic dodecahedron, and there are parallel stripes on the crystal surface. It usually appears as granular or dense block. The color is iron black; the crystal sometimes has a light indigo color. The stripes are black. Semi metallic luster. Opaque. No cleavage. The fracture surface is shell or uneven. The hardness is 5.5-6.5. The specific gravity is 4.9-5.2. It's brittle. It has strong magnetism. It is found in many magmatic rocks and metamorphic rocks, and also in coastal sands.

[collection] after mining, remove the miscellaneous stones, and select the ones with strong iron absorption ability (called "living magnet" or "spirit magnet") as medicine. After long time of storage, the magnetism of the magnet will decrease or even lose its iron absorption ability (called "dead magnet" or "dead magnet"), which will affect the efficacy. Therefore, it should be often buried with iron filings or soil to maintain its magnetism. If it has lost its magnetism, it can be placed with the living magnet Together, magnetism can gradually recover.

[herbal medicine] is irregular block, with many edges and corners, and different sizes. The surface is iron black to brown, opaque, with metallic luster; some are dull or covered with a little brown powder; some are rough with a little pinhole like pores; some contain impurities of yellow or other colors. Body weight, hard, hard to break, irregular section. It has a earthy smell. The active magnet has the ability of absorbing iron. Dead magnet has no iron absorption ability, and its color is reddish brown. It usually has pores, more impurities and is easy to break. Black, glossy and strong iron absorption ability is preferred. After heating at 480 ℃, the magnetism disappears suddenly, and then recovers after cooling. Insoluble in water and nitric acid. Soluble in concentrated hydrochloric acid, the solution is orange yellow, and its solution shows various special reactions of iron compounds.

Produced in Jiangsu, Shandong, Liaoning, Guangdong, Anhui, Hebei and other places.

[chemical composition] Fe3O4. It contains 31% ferric oxide and 69% ferric oxide. In addition, a few varieties contain MgO (10%) and alumina (15%). Mn + +, Ca + +, SiO3 - are also found in the crystals sold in Beijing.

[processing] magnetite: remove impurities, smash and sift. Calcined magnetite: take the brushed magnetite, smash it, put it in the crucible, calcine it in the smoke-free fire, take it out, pour it into the basin immediately, crisp it, smash it, calcine it again, take it out, dry it and grind it into fine powder. (each magnet is 100kg, vinegar is used twice, 50-60kg in total)

"Materia medica Yanyi": "magnetite, used as medicine, must be roasted and quenched with red vinegar. "

[flavor] spicy, salty, flat.

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

② Bielu: "salty, nontoxic. "

③ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "sweet and astringent, flat. "

[meridian tropism] into the kidney, liver and lung meridians.

① "Into the kidney. "

② According to the book of Materia Medica, it goes into the foot Shaoyin meridian and the foot Jueyin meridian. "

③ "Into the foot Shaoyin kidney meridian, hand Taiyin lung meridian. "

[function indications] it can be used to suppress Yang and Qi, calm nerves. It can cure dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, dyspnea, convulsion and palpitation.

① "Ben Jing" says: "it can relieve rheumatism, pain in limb joints, keep things away, wash away acid, and get rid of heat and deafness. "

② Bielu: "nourishing the kidney and storing, strengthening the bone and Qi, benefiting the essence and removing the trouble, dredging the joints, eliminating carbuncle and swelling, rat fistula, neck nucleus and throat pain, and convulsion and epilepsy in children. "

③ "Theory of medicinal properties": "tonifying the deficiency of man's kidney and wind, strengthening the body and unfavourable in the waist, should be added. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica" says: "it can cure dizziness of eyes, weakness of muscles and bones, tonify five labors and seven injuries, eliminate irritability, detumescence and poison. "

⑤ Ben Cao Yan Yi: "kidney deficiency, deafness and blindness are all used. "

⑥ "Compendium": "bright eyes and bright ears, stop the bleeding of golden sores. "

⑦ Yuluoyaojie: "treat impotence, anal prolapse, golden sores, swelling and poison, collect sweat and stop bleeding. "

⑧ "From the new materia medica:" the treatment of fear and fear. "

⑨ "Seeking the source of Materia Medica": "it is used to treat mydriasis and cataracts. "

⑩ Bencao Biandu: "take breath to relieve asthma. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.3 ~ 1 Liang; or into pills, powder. External use: grind the end to mix or adjust to apply.

[taboo] 1. Notes to the classic of materia medica: "to make it. Evil peony, wild grass. Chrysophane. Iron poison. "

② Bencao from the new: "it's important to hurt Qi. It can be used temporarily but not for a long time. "

[prescription selection] ① warm the water, strengthen the Qi, clear the ears and eyes, benefit the waist and feet: Ten liang of magnetite (burn red in high fire, quench it in vinegar for seven degrees, grind it carefully, fly over the water, fry it in a liter of good wine), two Liang (soak it in wine for one night, scrape off the wrinkled skin and fry it dry), two liang, two Liang (stir fry slightly), two liang, two Liang (remove the shell), two Liang. Pound Luo for the bundle, and the magnet fried phase and, the ball as big as a son. Take 20 pills with warm wine every day. (cishiwan, shenghuifang)

② Tonifying liver and kidney deficiency, stopping cold tears, dispersing black flowers: magnetite (calcined, vinegar),, (baked, peeled, pointed), Morinda officinalis, Cistanche, etc. For fine powder, refining honey and pills, such as big. Each take 20 pills, salt and wine soup, hollow service. (Cishi pill in "health home treasure recipe")

③ To improve eyesight and eyesight (Shengji Zonglu says: to cure deficiency of kidney and wind, to make eyes black): four Liang, two liang of magnetite, one or two liang of Guangming sand. On the three flavors, the end, refining honey for the ball, such as Wuzi. Drink and take 30 pills every three days. (Shenqu pill in Qianjin prescription and Cizhu pill in Gangmu)

④ To cure long-term deafness, to nourish the kidney, to strengthen the backbone: a catty of magnetite (grinding, washing to remove the red juice, soft wrapping), a pair (to remove the lipid membrane, fine cutting). Take five liters of water, boil the magnetite, take two liters, remove the magnetite, pour in the kidney, and mix. Use scallion, soy sauce, ginger and pepper as the soup. Eat it on an empty stomach, make porridge and wine. (Cishi kidney soup in Sheng Hui Fang)

⑤ For the treatment of deafness and tinnitus, it is often like the sound of geomantic omen: half a kilogram of magnetite (mashed and wrapped), half a kilogram of calamus (soaked in rice hogwash for one or two days, cut and baked). On the three flavors, to silk bag Sheng, with a bucket of wine immersion, cold seven days, summer three days, each drink three, day again. (Cishi wine in Shengji Zonglu)

⑥ Yang governance can not afford: five Jin magnet (Research). Sake three Dou, stains 27 days, a service three, day and night one. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑦ Treatment of infantile convulsion and epilepsy: magnetite refined water drink. (Sheng Ji Zong Lu)

⑧ Treatment of the uterus does not receive, name? Disease, pain can not bear: Cishi wine immersion, calcination, research powder, rice paste pill, Wuzi big. Every time I lay down, I would take 40 pills in the soup, and I would take two coins in the rice soup. Loose with magnetite (wine) half Liang, iron powder two and a half money, five money, for the end. (cishiwan in Gangmu)

⑨ Treatment of large intestine deficiency and cold anorectal: 100 dried snails (stir fried, mashed for the end), two magnetic stones (mashed, Amoy also juice). On the medicine, with a large cup of water, fried magnet five money, to five minutes, to dross, transfer snail powder a money service, three times a day. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑩ Treat all kinds of swelling and poisons: three coins of magnet, four liang of gold and silver cane, eight liang of Huangdan, one jin of sesame oil. Boil and paste it as usual. (business secrets of heaven and earth)

(11) treatment of emphysema: smash the magnet into powder, seal it with alkali and vinegar, and pull out the roots. (ancient and modern prescriptions)

(12) for the treatment of gold sores, if you want to enter the intestine, you should use three pairs of magnetite and talc respectively. For the end, with white rice drink tune square inch dagger service, day service. (Liu Juanzi's ghost prescription)

(12) to cure gold sores, relieve pain and cut off blood: apply it at the end of magnet. (Qian Jin Fang)

[discussion by famous experts] 1. In the compendium of Medical Sciences, "Ci Shi treats all the diseases of the kidney family, and clears the ears and eyes. Shizhen used Dongyuan Shengfeng Decoction to add subtraction and take it, and then used Cizhu pills to assist it. Two months later, it was the same as before. In order to prevent the evil fire from invading, it is necessary to use Shenqu to digest stagnant Qi, produce and ripen Qi, and warm the Qi produced by the spleen and stomach. "

② "Ben Cao Jing Shu" says: "Ci Shi, Ben Jing is pungent, cold and nontoxic. BIE Lu and Zhen Quan are slightly toxic. Ming Dynasty is sweet, astringent and flat, and the container is salty and warm. Now we can use it in detail. It should be pungent, salty and slightly warm, but not sweet and cold. Its main week Bi rheumatism, limb pain, can not hold things, washing acid, are caused by wind, cold and wet three Qi, and the wind is particularly victory. Wind Yin terminal disease, occurred in the limbs, so limb pain, can not hold things. Rheumatism phase fight, long from cremation, and Kashin skin washing acid also. Xin can disperse wind and cold, and Wen can pass joints, so it is also the master. Salty for hydration, can run under the soft firm, Xin can disperse poison, micro temperature can pass in addition to heat, so the main hot full, and eliminate carbuncle. The pain in the neck nucleus and throat of rat fistula is caused by the deficiency fire of foot Shaoyang and Shaoyin. Salt enters the kidney. If the nature of the fistula is depressed and inhaled, the fire will return and the pain will stop. The magnet can enter the kidney and nourish the kidney. Kidney dominates bone, so it can strengthen bone. Kidney stores essence, so it can benefit essence. Kidney resuscitation in the ear, it can treat deafness. The kidney is in charge of catharsis, which is secret and solid for a long time, and the essence and Qi are beneficial, so it can make people have children. Children's convulsion, heart qi, phlegm heat Sheng also, salt can run, heavy can go to fear, is the main. "All kinds of medicinal stones are poisonous, and should not be taken for a long time. They have a unique magnetic nature, and have no fierce Qi. They also have the function of Tonifying the kidney and essence. Most of them are soaked in wine, which is better than pills and powders. The stone nature weighs a lot. "

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