Gold foil

Gold foil

(materia medica Menghong)

Jinbo (theory of medicinal properties).

[source] it is paper-like flake hammered with gold.

[mineral form] natural gold, also known as raw gold (Tao Hongjing).

Isometric. The crystal is octahedral, but it is rare. The common crystal is granular or Tung Branch like aggregate. The color is golden. Streaks are bright golden yellow with strong metallic luster. Opaque. Serrated fracture. The hardness is 2.5-3. The specific gravity is 15.6-18.3 (19.3 for pure gold). It's very malleable. High heat transfer and conductivity. Insoluble in acid, soluble in aqua regia. Very stable in air.

Natural gold is usually divided into vein gold (mountain gold) and placer gold. Vein gold occurs in quartz vein and placer gold in alluvium.

It's hard, it's smooth.

① "Ben Cao Hui Yan": "it is pungent, cold and poisonous. "

② "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": non toxic. "

③ Ben Cao Qiu Zhen: "Xin, Ping. "

[Guijing] into the heart and liver channels.

① "Lei Gong processed medicine solution": into the heart, lung two channels. "

② "Ben Cao Hui Yan": "start with Shaoyin and Jueyin. "

Functions and indications: calming the mind, calming the nerves and detoxifying. It can treat convulsion, mania, palpitation and sore poison.

① "Theory of medicinal properties": "it is mainly used for children's convulsion and injury, five Zang wind epilepsy, loss of ambition, calming the heart and soothing the soul. "

② "Haiyao Materia Medica": "it is mainly used for epilepsy, wind heat, upper Qi cough, typhoid fever, lung damage, hematemesis, bone steaming, and extreme thirst. It is mainly used for benefiting the five organs, accumulating evil Qi, tonifying the heart, and taking it thinly than pills and powder. "

③ "Herbal Mengluo": "eliminate evil and poison, but heat drive trouble, soothe the soul, nourish the spirit, strengthen the bone marrow, and blood, prohibit madness and gallop, stop palpitation and wind epilepsy. It is necessary to use this medicine for clothing. "

④ "The classic of Materia Medica" says: "grind the crumbs, pick up the sores on the head, submerge, and pull out the roots. "

⑤ New materia medica: "Soothing Liver Qi, calming mind, soothing soul, nourishing kidney water, promoting meridians and collaterals, benefiting joints, breaking accumulation and eliminating gangrene, treating convulsion and acne in children. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: pills and powder. Generally, it is used for pills. External use: grind and sprinkle.

[should avoid] Yang deficiency and qi depression, lower benefit and cold people should not take it.

[prescription selection] ① treat heart wind evil, trance rave, indecisive: 200 pieces of gold foil, half liang of greasy powder. In a new small pan, first spread gold foil and separate it with powder. Then add a small cup of milk and fry it with slow fire until the milk is exhausted. The gold foil is like mud, which is baked on the fire and ground into powder. Steamed cakes and balls are as big as beans. Take five pills each time, and then drink underwater. (Jin Ye Wan, standard of syndrome differentiation and treatment)

② Cure wind evil Madness: 100 pieces of gold foil, two pieces of cinnabar (Research), borneol (Research), bezoar (Research), pearl powder, amber powder, rhinoceros horn powder. On the seven flavor, the six flavor with again grind evenly. With a tripod, spread a heavy gold foil, mixed with a heavy powder, and then spread it. Pour three liters of milk on the tripod, and simmer it slowly to make the milk into cream. Each take soap horn big, mint soup of the service. (Shengji Zonglu fried with gold foil)

③ Treatment of epilepsy, palpitation, depression, all phlegm fire disease: Xipo, tianzhuhuang, cinnabar each five money, Danxing one or two, Niuhuang, realgar, pearl each two money, musk five points. Honey pill, every two for 30 pills, gold foil for clothing, mint soup next pill. (Jin Ye Zhen Xin Wan in Shen's Zunsheng Shu)

④ Treatment of infantile food epilepsy, falling phlegm saliva: five pieces of gold foil (careful research), three money of greasy powder, one point of Kansui (simmer slightly yellow, pound for the end). Use jujube pulp and make a mixture. Wrap it in five pieces of gold foil and wet paper. Simmer it over low heat and wait for it to cool. Take the pill as big as mung bean. Take two pills with ginseng soup every time, measure the size of the baby, and add or subtract the meaning. (Sheng Hui Fang Jin Ye WAN)

⑤ Treatment of ear abscess: two pieces of alum, two pieces of rouge, seven pieces of gold foil. On the same research fine, three times a day mixed in the ear, each with half a word. (the golden leaf powder of Buyao pocket children's prescription)

[discussion by famous experts] 1. In the classic of Materia Medica, it is said in the Taiqing method that the golden nature is rigid, and the muscle and bone are damaged by taking it. It can only be used as a medicine for calming the mind. If the spirit is disturbed due to the deficiency of heart qi, and there is no fear of evil, it should be urgent to invigorate the heart and calm the spirit, rather than the gold foil. "

② "This classic meets the original": "it can treat convulsion, wind heat, liver and gallbladder disease, but it must be foil, and there is no serious injury in the fall. Zixue Decoction uses the leaves of red gold to decoct water, to make liver and reduce phlegm. If pieces of ingot gold and jewelry are tasteless and greasy, they are not suitable. "

③ Huiyue medical mirror: "gold foil can calm the heart and ward off evil spirits. It can be used to cure mania, palpitation, soothe the soul, calm the wind and epilepsy, drop phlegm and saliva, and reduce evil fire. All evils, which should be clear and descending, should be used. If Yang deficiency, qi depression, slippery discharge cold, should avoid it. Raw gold is poisonous, so you should not take too much foil. "

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