Purple shellfish

Purple shellfish

(Tang materia medica)

[synonyms] Wenbei (Nanzhou foreign body records), Jialuo (Ben Cao Tu Jing), zibeichi (Chinese Medical Dictionary).

[source] it is the shell of babeidae, such as snake headed eyeball shell, Bobcat baby shell, or fritillary shell.

[animal morphology] 1

The shell is small, firm and slightly oval. The shell is about 3 cm long, 2.4 cm wide and 1.5 cm high. Shell surface is covered with a layer of enamel, smooth, beautiful luster. The spiral part of the adult shell is buried by enamel, and the spiral layer accounts for the largest part of the whole shell. The edge of the shell is dark brown, and the front and back ends are light brown. There are white spots of different sizes on the back, and the edge of the abdomen is gray cyan. The mouth of the shell is narrow and long, and there are 14-17 fine white teeth around the inner and outer lips. The shell of the larva is thin, with 2-3 spiral layers. The shell surface is milky white, and there is a broad brown band in the middle of the back. The body is soft and can be completely retracted into the shell. The head is wide, the snout is short, the antennae are long and sharp, and the eyes are prominent, which are located outside the antennae. Well developed feet.

They live in caves of rocks or coral reefs near the low tide line. It is carnivorous and feeds on sponges, foraminifera and small crustaceans. It is distributed in Hainan Island and Paracel Islands.

② Bobcat baby

The shell is medium-sized, about 4.3 cm long, 2.7 cm wide and 2.2 cm high, with white rim and bottom; the back is brown with irregular dark brown and light blue spots. There are 26-29 teeth around the lip of the shell, and the teeth are blood red.

The distribution is the same as above.

③ Shoubei (compendium)

The shell is medium-sized, about 4.5 cm long, 2.7 cm wide and 2.1 cm high. The margin is milky red with dark blue brown spots on the top and dark brown on both ends; the back is gray white with dense brown irregular longitudinal lines. The bottom shell is reddish with dark blue spots around it. There are 23-26 Brown teeth on each lip.

They are distributed in Hainan Island, Paracel Islands, Spratly Islands, Fujian and Taiwan.

[collection] from May to July, the meat was removed, washed and dried.

[herbal medicine] the whole body is slightly oval, the ventral surface is flat, the front end is slightly wide, the front and back ends are concave in a round mouth shape, and there are many fine teeth around the two lips of the shell mouth. The shell surface is smooth and has beautiful luster. Purple, brown or brown, with many dark purple brown and white interlaced stripes or round dots. It's hard, airless and tasteless. Purple, thick shell, complete and clean is better.

Produced in Hainan, Taiwan, Fujian and other places.

[chemical composition] the shell of Fritillaria thunbergii contains more than 90% calcium carbonate, about 0.47% organic matter, and a small amount of magnesium, silicate, sulfate, phosphate and chloride. After calcination, carbonate decomposes to produce calcium oxide and organic matter is destroyed.

Processing: wash, dry and mash. Calcined Fritillaria: take the cleaned Fritillaria, put it in the crucible, calcine it in the furnace, take it out to cool and mash it. Or grind into fine powder.

[flavor] salty, flat.

① "Herbivorous Materia Medica": "flat, non-toxic. "

② "Taste salty. "

"Into the spleen and liver. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, calming the liver, calming the nerves and improving the eyesight. Treatment of heat toxic eye Yi, children's macular rash into the eyes, Jingti sleepless.

① Tang materia medica: "clear eyes, remove heat poison. "

② "Compendium": "treat children's rash and rash, eye Yi. "

③ "Yinpianxinshen": "Qingxin, Pinggan Anshen, zhijingti sleepless.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-5 yuan; or grinding powder. External use: water flies to the eye.

[prescription selection] to treat children's pox and rash: Zibei is used as the end, and it is boiled with sheep liver, ginseng powder, thread wrapped, rice swill cooked, put it in a small bottle, fumigate it by heat, take it out by waiting for cold, and show it all night. (Zibei powder in baby children's questions)

Chinese PinYin : Zi Bei