Cinnabar

Cinnabar

(notes to the classic of Materia Medica)

[synonyms] Dansu (Shanhaijing), dansha (Benjing), Chidan (Huainanzi), mercury sand (Shiyao Erya), cinnabar (Bencao tujing).

[source] it is natural cinnabar ore.

Cinnabar

It is a cubic system. The crystal is thick plate or rhombohedron. In nature, the monomer is rare, mostly granular, dense block, and also powder coating. The color is scarlet to dark red, sometimes lead gray. The stripes are red. Diamond luster, translucent. There are parallel complete cleavages. The fracture surface is semi shell or uneven. The hardness is 2-2.5. The specific gravity is 8.09-8.2. It's brittle. It is often a vein and occurs in limestone, slate and sandstone.

[collection] the cinnabar ore is split and a small amount of cinnabar mixed in the rock is taken out. Flotation method can be used to place the crushed ore in a washing plate with a diameter of about one foot and rotate it left and right. Because of the different specific gravity, the sand settles at the bottom and the stone floats on the top. After removing the stone, cut the cinnabar into pieces and blocks. The flakes are called "mirror sand", the lumps are called "Douban sand", and the fragments are called "zhubaosha".

[medicinal materials] are flake, massive or fine granules of different sizes. Bright red or dark red, glossy. Weight, odorless, tasteless. There are several kinds of commodities.

① Zhu baosha

Also known as: Yangjian sand, Ze smooth sand. It is small, massive or granular, red and bright, and can not be touched.

② Mirror sand

Also known as: split sand, slice sand. It is inclined square or strip-shaped, with different thickness, uneven edge, red and bright color, bright as mirror, slightly transparent, brittle and easy to break.

③ Bean paste

Also known as: bean sand (Tao Hongjing), a sand. It is massive, large, square, round or polygonal, dark or grayish black in color, strong in weight and not fragile.

It is better to have bright red color, luster, slight transparency and no impurity. It is insoluble in water, nitric acid and sulfuric acid, but soluble in aqua regia and sodium sulfide solution.

It is mainly produced in Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.

[chemical composition] the main component of cinnabar is mercuric sulfide, which is equivalent to HgS in pure form. Theoretically, it contains 86.2% mercury and 13.8% sulfur, but it often contains hybrid substances, among which realgar, apatite and asphaltene are the most common.

[processing] iron scraps are absorbed by iron absorption stone and ground into fine powder, or extremely fine powder is made by water flying method.

"The compendium of compendium" says, "the only way to do this is to take sand and grind it, and use it three times with running water. The sand is mostly mixed with stone and iron filings, which can't be used as medicine. Another method is to put sand in a silk bag, boil it with buckwheat ash juice for three days, take it out, wash it with running water, and dry the flour. "

Sweet, cool and poisonous.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes sweet and slightly cold. "

② Wupu materia medica: "Huangdi, Qibo: bitter, poisonous. Li: very cold. "

③ "On medicinal properties": "there is great poison. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "cool, slightly toxic. "

[Guijing] entering the heart meridian.

① "The classic of entering the heart". "

② "Into the foot Shaoyin kidney meridian, foot Taiyin spleen meridian, hand Shaoyin heart meridian. "

③ New materia medica: "entering the heart and lung meridians. "

[function indications] tranquilizing, calming, tomorrow, detoxifying. Treatment of mania, palpitation, upset, insomnia: dizziness, dizziness, swelling and poison, sores, scabies.

① "Yihun, Mingmu, Yangqi". "

② Bielu: "tongxuemai, zhifanman, Xiaoke, Yi spirit, Yue Ze human face, in addition to the evil abdominal pain, toxic gas scabies fistula sores. "

③ "On medicinal properties": "calming the heart, controlling the wind. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "moisten the heart and lung, treat scabies, scabs and polyps, take and apply. "

⑤ "Pearl bag": "heart heat can not be removed. "

⑥ Li Gao: "the fire of floating and tranquilizing the gods. "

⑦ "Introduction to medicine": "acne will come out, take the detoxification, make less. It's the heat of the heart. It can moisten the lung and quench thirst, clear the liver and improve eyesight. It can also fight against evil plague, break through hundred diseases and give birth to stillbirth. "

⑧ Compendium: "it can cure convulsion and epilepsy, relieve fetal and pox toxin, expel pathogenic factors and malaria, and perspire. "

⑨ Bencao from the new: "be crazy, stop toothache. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: grind powder, 1-3 points; add pills, powder or mix with other drugs and decoct. And for pills hanging clothes. External use: combined with other drugs, grind powder, dry and sprinkle.

[taboo] it is not suitable to take it for a long time or more.

① Wu Pu's materia medica: "fear of magnets. Brackish water. "

② "Drug pair": "avoid all blood. "

③ Ben Cao from the new: "it's boring to use it alone and in many ways. "

[prescription selection] 1. For the treatment of dysentery caused by wind evil, one or two years old: cinnabar (Guangming, Yan), Ziziphus jujuba (stir fried, Yan) and frankincense (Guangying, Yan). The first three ingredients are combined to make the patient drunk as much as possible. Take five daggers and one cup of wine for each time, and then adjust them to sleep in a quiet room. (dansha pill in Shengji Zonglu)

② To cure happiness and anger: cinnabar, alum, Curcuma. For the end, honey pill. Ten pills of peppermint soup. (Chensha pill in Shi Cai San Shu)

③ It can be used to cure all the worries, worries, dreams and trances, and forgetting many things. But it can cure all the heart qi deficiency, epilepsy and mania: two pieces of cinnabar, two pieces of pig heart, and three pieces of lamp heart. Cut the pig's heart, add cinnabar and wick, tie the hemp thread together, and cook it in a silver stone tool for one volt. Instead of using the pig's heart and wick, grind the cinnabar very fine, use two liang of zhenfushen powder, and boil the thin paste with wine. Make a pill with cinnabar, as big as Tongzi. Take nine to fifteen pills per serving, add to twenty-one pills, and put them in the decoction of heartless Maimendong. Epilepsy even, frankincense, ginseng soup. Sleep at night or more chaotic dream, fried sour jujube soup. (Baiyi Xuanfang Guishen Pill)

④ Treatment of postpartum mania, blood and evil into the heart: cinnabar one, two money. Grind and fly over, moisten with three or four teaspoons of Yiner's milk, roll three rolls of Zixiang earthworm as medicine, scrape clean, remove earthworm, and add a cup of ashless wine. Take it three or four times. (compendium)

⑤ For the treatment of dizziness, palpitation, and restlessness in sleep: cinnabar and Coptis, angelica, rehmannia and licorice. On for fine powder, wine bubble steaming cake, pills such as pockmarks big, cinnabar for clothing. Take 30 pills every time, and lie down with body fluid. (Zhusha Anshen pill in yizongjinyao)

⑥ Treatment of heart deficiency and spermatorrhea: a pig heart, connected with batches, mixed with flying cinnabar powder, thread binding: cooked food cooked in white water. (Tang Yao experience prescription)

⑦ For dim eyes, it can make you see far: cinnabar half Liang (careful study), qingyangdan one. On the cinnabar powder into the gallbladder, hanging in the northwest corner of the house, dry in the shade, day out, pills such as beans. After each meal, drink ten pills with porridge. (Zhu Sha Wan in Sheng Hui Fang)

⑧ Mingmu: Guangming sand (the top of the red sand) one or two, Shenqu four Liang, magnetite two Liang. At the end of the last three flavors, honey is made into a pill, as big as Wuzi. Drink three pills, three days, can't help, often take yiyanli. (qianjinfang Shenqu pill)

⑨ Treatment of laryngopharyngeal swelling and pain, pharyngeal obstruction stuffy: dansha one point (research, Shuifei), mirabilite one or two half (Research). On the two flavor and then with the research evenly, each word, always blow into the throat. (dansha powder in Shengji Zonglu)

⑩ Treat all kinds of hematemesis: cinnabar (Yanfei), clam powder. Divide the two flavors equally, grind them carefully and make them even. Take two daggers each time, and then sprinkle them with warm water. (Zhu fensan, Shengji Zonglu)

(11) sand control bee sting: cinnabar powder, coated with water. (pick Yuan Fang)

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