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"Alum can be purified when it enters turbid water, and it is often commented on by doctors. It often benefits from internal and external problems, and ordinary tastes are extraordinary." Legend has it that in ancient times, there was an old man named Bai who had a son in his later years and named him Bai Fan. He treated him like a treasure, but he suffered from all kinds of diseases Sores and leprosy are complicated by epilepsy, which cannot be cured by many treatments. Later, there was a visiting doctor. The old man asked for treatment diligently. The doctor said: "My illness can be cured by my name, so there is no need to ask for help." "Is it possible that you don't know alum?" Prepare alum, Turmeric Root Tuber, Peppermint, and green tea leaf, grind them together, mix them with honey to make pills for oral administration; take alum and realgar, grind them into fine powder, mix them with tea leaf, and apply them externally , Wengzi took the medicine according to the prescription, and soon recovered.

Alum is also known as alum. It tastes sour and cold. Benjing records its "main purpose" Hanre: dysentery, white stool, turbidity, malignant sores, eye pain, and hard bones and teeth. ". Bencao Gangmu summarizes the four uses of alum: "To vomit phlegm saliva that relieves wind and heat, choose its sour and bitter taste; to treat prolapse of rectum, prolapse of uterus sore and ulcer, choose its sour and astringent And to treat phlegm-fluid retention, diarrhea and collapse with wind eyes, it is to collect and dry dampness; to treat throat obstruction caused by snake bites and stings, it is to remove toxin."

The doctor in the above story The prescription for treating epilepsy is the famous "Alum and Curcuma Pill", and the prescription for treating leprosy is the traditional prescription "Toxin-Removing Powder with Two Ingredients".

• To treat wind phlegm that persists and the sound in the throat is like a saw, you can take alum with Pineilia Tuber, Liquorice Root, and ginger juice;
• For phlegm that is coughing and wheezing, boil 7 pieces of Chinese date in water and rinse Take 3 grams of alum powder orally;
• For lung heat hemoptysis, mix alum with Black Catechu as powder, 3 grams each time, take infused with warm boiled water;
• To treat stomachache, take a large alum bean and boil it in Nutgrass Galingale Rhizome.
• For chronic diarrhea bloody stool, use dry alum (alum that can be forged by fire) mixed with medicine terminalia fruit, Chinese Magnoliavine Fruit and decoction;
• Patients with high blood pressure and dizziness can use 3500 grams of alum, pounded into fine pieces and wrapped in double-layer cloth. Make a pillow.
• In case of Yongju swelling, poison, snake or insect bites, take 2 grams of alum and 4 grams of yellow wax as pills, mixed with warm wine.

In terms of external treatment,

• If women's amenorrhea is white and turbid, mix alum and bitter apricot seeds into a honeyed pill to take vagina;
• If trichomonal vaginal inflammation is itchy, use alum and sulfur Grind together , bitter apricot seed and common bletilla tuber into powder, mix it with water and use realgar as a garment. Wrap it in silk and leave a thread to guide it. Put vagina on the outside and take it in the evening and in the morning.
• For otitis media with pus, use alum and red lead to blow the ear;
• For epistaxis, use a dropper to absorb alum solution, intranasal drip for cervical neurodermatitis, oxhide lichen (neurodermatitis), use alum, realgar, black saltpetre, and scalp Grind hoof charcoal into powder and mix with vinegar;
• For abscesses, grind alum, myrrh, and borneol into powder and spread for application;
• For tinea capitis, alum and rosin powder can be used, and pig suet can be pounded, twisted into strips, and set on fire. Let the oil drip and cool before applying.
• Infantile anal prolapse is washed with alum, tea leaf seed husks, Purslane Herb, and onion decoction, then put it back in the hand, and sprinkle with dried alum powder.
• For swollen penis skin edema, you can use alum and Cicada Slough decocted in water to fumigate and wash;
• if the scrotal eczema is severely itchy, use alum and pine needles decocted in water to wash;
• for prostatic hypertrophy and urinary retention, use alum, table salt, Pound the fistular onion stalk together and apply it to the navel;
• To treat infection molluscum, grind alum, chinese gall, and rhubarb into powder and mix with vinegar and apply on it;
• To treat genital warts, use alum, purslane herb, and borneol to decoct and wash.