Actinolite

Actinolite

(Ben Jing)

[synonym] Baishi (Ben Jing), yangqishi and Shisheng (BIE Lu).

[source] it is the ore of silicate mineral actinolite or actinolite asbestos.

(1) actinolite

Monoclinic system. The crystals are long columnar, acicular and hairy. But it is usually a fine radial, rod-shaped or fibrous aggregate. The color changes from gray with light green to dark green. It has glass luster. Transparent to opaque. One way complete cleavage. The fracture surface is multi sheet. The hardness is 5.5-6. The specific gravity is 3.1-3.3. It's brittle. It is common in all kinds of metamorphic rocks.

② Actinolite asbestos

It is a fibrous actinolite with excellent parallel fibrous structure and different fiber lengths. White, light green and light brown. Silk luster. It has flexibility and toughness, fire resistance and acid resistance.

[collection] after harvesting, remove the soil and miscellaneous stones.

[medicinal material] is long strip or flat long strip with different sizes. All of them are milky white, bluish white to bluish gray, or form longitudinal patterns of bluish white and bluish gray, sometimes with yellowish brown and luster. Weight and soft texture, easy to peel off, cross-section is fibrous, easy to longitudinal crack, broken into filaments, the silk cotton is soft and smooth. Rich elasticity, stick to the skin is itchy, and not easy to remove. No odor. It is better to have needle bundle, gray white luster and easy to twist. When burned in the flame, it turns red but does not melt. After leaving the fire, the burned part turns yellow slightly. It is difficult to melt and does not conduct heat. Insoluble in acid.

Mainly produced in Hubei, Henan and other places.

In addition to the above authentic products, in Sichuan, Hubei, Shandong, Henan and Beijing and other parts of the country, there are still people who use Yin Qi stone to make Yang Qi stone. The mineral form of Yinqi stone is talc schist, which is a kind of asbestos ore with short fiber, and it is dense from fine scale to coarse scale. Generally green or from gray to white. The hardness is very small, and it feels slippery. It is the product of stratabound, often associated with the adamellite facies. The ore is almost entirely composed of talc. In addition, it often contains carbonate (siderite), chlorite, mica and a small amount of other minerals. The products of medicinal materials are irregular lumps with different sizes. All of them are silvery white and slightly green. The surface is smooth and uneven, and the cross section is layered. It is soft, loose and fragile. It can be twisted into thin scales or short fibers by hand. Powder attached to the hand has a smooth feeling, and is not easy to fall. It is easy to conduct heat by keeping the red color unchanged. The air is weak and the taste is light. It can be used as a medicine for fine grinding.

[processing] actinolite: wash and smash. Calcined actinolite: take clean actinolite, put it in a crucible, calcine it in a smoke-free fire, pour it into yellow rice wine, quench it, take it out, dry it and grind it fine. (100kg / yangqishi, 20kg / yellow rice wine)

① "Rihuazi Materia Medica" and "yangqishi" are used for calcination after burning when combined with medicine, and those who coagulate white are the best. "

② "Compendium": "where the use of actinolite, the fire calcined red, wine quenched seven times, grinding fine water flying, dry day. It can also be used to soak in Shaojiu and add camphor to the pot to refine the powder. "

[flavor] salty, warm.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes salty and slightly warm. "

② "On medicinal properties": "it tastes sweet and flat. "

③ Yilin zuanyao: "Xian Xin, Wen. "

[Guijing] into the kidney meridian.

① "Gangmu": "right kidney Mingmen Qi points. "

② "Into the kidney meridian. "

[function indications] warming and tonifying life gate. Under the treatment of Jiao deficiency cold, waist and knee cold arthralgia, male impotence, female palace cold, Baihuang metrorrhagia.

① Ben Jing: "the main collapse in the leakage, breaking the blood in the viscera, Baihuang Jieqi, cold and hot abdominal pain, Yin flaccidity, make up for deficiency. "

② Bielu: "it can cure the cold of man's stem head, damp and itchy under the Yin, remove the bad sweat and eliminate edema. "

③ "Theory of medicinal properties": "deficiency of kidney qi essence, backache, knee cold, dampness arthralgia, can warm women's uterus for a long time, cold hundred cold, zhiyueshui indefinite. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "to cure the epidemic, to cool the air, to make up for the five labors and seven injuries. "

⑤ Wang Haogu: "to make up for the deficiency of life gate. "

⑥ "Introduction to medicine": "it can help people with Yang Qi, but it can control men's deficiency of Yang. "

⑦ The compendium of Medical Sciences: "disperse all kinds of heat and swelling. "

⑧ Yulao Yaojie: "treating cold hernia. "

[usage and dosage] take orally: take pills and powder, 1-1.5 yuan.

[should avoid] those with Yin deficiency and excessive fire should not take it.

① "The cuttlebone is the envoy of the book of Materia Medica. Alisma orientalis, Cinnamomum cassia, leiwan and snake molting. Fear dodder. "

② "On medicinal properties": "evil stone sunflower. Avoid sheep blood. "

③ According to the classic of Materia Medica, it is forbidden for those with Yin deficiency and fire. Impotence belongs to the loss of will, so that the fire gas is closed and can not be sent more and more naturally, and the collapse of the belt due to the fire rather than Asthenia Cold, and can not be taken. "

④ "Materia medica Huiyan": "it is not suitable for those with deficiency of blood and heat. "

[prescription selection] 1. For the treatment of deficiency and cold of vital energy, it can't help being refined and slippery, the big mansion is loose, and the hands and feet are cold: yangqishi (calcined, studied and ordered to be extremely fine) and Zhongru powder are equally divided. It is a fine finish, and the wine is boiled with the paste of Wutong, which is a large pill. Take 50 pills each time, and give them hollow rice drink

② Treatment of Yin flaccidity, Yin sweat: yangqishi (calcined, for the end), each take two money, under salt and wine. (Puji Fang)

③ In the extreme of deficiency and cold, the collapse will not stop, and other syndromes will appear: two liang of yangqishi, one liang of pilose antler. For the fine powder, vinegar fried wormwood juice, play glutinous rice and for the ball, such as Tung big. Take 100 pills each time, drink hollow rice before eating. (jishengfang yangqishi pill)

④ Treatment of erysipelas: yangqishi (Shao, Yanmo), new shuitiao Tu swelling. (Yang Qishi San in Confucian Affairs)

Chinese PinYin : Yang Qi Shi