ivory

ivory

(on medicinal properties)

[source] it is the tooth of Asiatic elephant in elephant family. The animal morphology is shown in the "elephant skin" strip.

[collection] most of the ivory scraps are used for medicine.

Most of them are fragmentary and irregular in shape. The surface is light red or yellow with longitudinal shallow furrows. The inside is silver white. There are crisscross corrugations in the longitudinal section and concentric wheel patterns in the cross section. It's tough and crisp. Odorless, tasteless. Light red on the outside, silvery white on the inside and oily on the inside are preferred.

The tooth of African elephant is also used as medicine.

[chemical composition] it contains calcium phosphate (57-60%), dental matrix (40-43%) and a small amount of fat. Ivory is characterized by more organic matter.

Sweet and cold.

① Haiyao materia medica: "cold. "

② Rihuazi materia medica: "Ping. "

③ "Pinhuijingyao": "it is light in taste, flat in nature and non-toxic. "

④ "Gangmu": "sweet, cold, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] Bencao Zaixin: "entering the heart and kidney meridians. "

[function indications] it can clear away heat and shock, detoxify and activate muscles. Treatment of epilepsy, palpitation, bone steaming, phlegm heat, carbuncle swelling, sore poison, hemorrhoids leakage.

① "Haiyao Materia Medica": "it is mainly used for wind, epilepsy and fever, bone steaming and fatigue, various sores, etc., and it is suitable for the use of scraps as medicine. "

② "Rihuazi Materia Medica" says: "if you can't cure urination, you can take it by frying it raw; if you have too much urination, you can drink it by burning ashes. "

③ "Kaibao Materia Medica": "it is mainly used to put iron and sundries into the meat, scrape the scraps, carefully study and apply water on the sores. "

④ "Introduction to medicine": "life is the end, the main hemorrhoids fistula, the fastest muscle filling mouth. "

⑤ "The classic of Materia Medica" says: "to cure the evil sores, to extract the poison, to grow the flesh, to generate the muscle, to remove the leakage tube. "

⑥ Ben Cao Zheng: "it can clear the fire of heart and kidney, treat palpitation, wind mania, bone steaming and phlegm heat. "

[usage and dosage] for internal use: grinding powder, 0.5-1 coin; grinding juice or pills, powder; for external use: grinding juice or grinding powder.

[prescription selection] for the treatment of Myrica rubra sores: Ivory three coins, turtle shell and hedgehog skin, one for each, as the end, jujube meatballs, cherry large, each pill, hollow urination, seven days after taking, still use three flavors as the end, pig bile modulation. (Introduction to medicine Ivory pill)

Chinese PinYin : Xiang Ya