It is an ore of the silicate mineral actinolite or actinolite asbestos. After harvesting, remove the soil and debris. Mainly produced in Hubei, Henan and other places.

In some areas such as Sichuan, Hubei, Shandong, Henan, and Beijing, there are still those who use ingotite as actinolite.

[Character]

They are elongated or flat elongated and vary in size. The whole color is milky white, bluish white to bluish gray, or forms vertical patterns of bluish white and bluish gray, sometimes with yellowish brown and glossy appearance. It is heavy and soft in texture, easy to peel off, has a fibrous cross-section and is easy to split longitudinally. It becomes silky after being crushed, and its silk cotton is soft and smooth. It is very elastic, makes it itchy when it sticks to the skin, and is difficult to remove. No smell at all. The ones that are needle-shaped, gray-white, shiny, and easy to twist are better. When burned in a flame, it turns red but does not melt. After being removed from the fire, the burned part turns slightly yellow. When the blowpipe is burned, it is difficult to melt and does not conduct heat. Insoluble in acid.

1. actinolite monoclinic crystal system: the crystals are long columnar, needle-shaped, and hair-shaped. But usually in the form of fine radial, rod-shaped or fibrous aggregates. Color ranges from greenish gray to dark green. With glass luster. Transparent to opaque. Complete cleavage in one direction. The fracture surface is multi-flaky. The hardness is 5.5~6, the specific gravity is 3.1~3.3, and it is brittle. Commonly found in various metamorphic rocks.
2. actinolite asbestos: fibrous actinolite, which is characterized by an excellent parallel fibrous structure with different fiber lengths. White, light green and light brown. Silk luster. It has elasticity and toughness, fire resistance and acid resistance.

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

[Property]

salty, warm.

1. Benjing: salty, slightly warm.
2. Yaoxing Lun: sweet, neutral.
3. Yilin Zuanyao Tanyuan: salty and acrid, warm.

1. Gangmu: Right act on kidney channel Mingmen Qi points.
2. Leigong Paozhi Yaoxing Jie: act on kidney channel.

[Efficacy]

warming and tonifying life gates.

[Indications]

Treat lower energizer deficiency and cold, cold paralysis of the waist and knees, impotence in men, uterus cold in women, abdominal mass metrorrhagia and metrostaxis.

1. Benjing: It mainly controls metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, breaks uterus and causes blood, abdominal mass condenses qi, Hanre abdominal pain, impotence and insufficiency.
2. Bielu: It can treat men's cold stem head, wet and itchy vaginal area, remove odorous sweat, and eliminate edema.
3. Yaoxing Lun: Tonify kidney deficiency, waist pain and cold knees, fix arthralgia, warm women's uterus due to long-term coldness, cold symptoms and cold abdominal mass, and relieve menstruation.
4. Rihuazi Bencao: Treat leukorrhea, pestilence, air conditioner, supplement five kinds of strain seven damages.
5. Wang Hao-gu: Make up for the lack of life gate.
6. Yixue Rumen: It can help people with yang qi, and it can control the deficiency and yang deficiency in men.
7. Gangmu: Dispels heat and swelling.
8. Yuqiu Yaojie: Treat cold abdominal colic.

[Usage and Dosage]

Oral administration: Take it as pills or powder, 1 to 1.5 yuan.

[Precaution]

Those with yin deficiency and effulgent fire should not take it.

1. Bencao Jing Jizhu: mantis egg-case for it. Evil Alisma, Gui Gui, Thunder Ball, Snake Slough Skin. Afraid of dodder.
2. Yaoxing Lun: Evil stone sunflower. Avoid sheep blood.
3. Bencao Jingshu: People with yin deficiency with effulgent fire are taboo. Impotence is a mental disease that causes the fire qi block to become denser and stronger, and metrorrhagia leukorrhea is due to excess fire rather than deficiency and cold, and should not be taken.
4. Bencao Huiyan: People with Ying deficiency and blood heat should not take it.

Traditional Chinese medicine can effectively treat dry eye syndrome, floaters, retinopathy, and various chronic eye diseases

[Processing and Storage]

Use it as medicine, grind it into red powder and grind it finely.

actinolite: washed and smashed.

Calcining actinolite: Take a clean piece of actinolite, place it in a crucible, calcine it red in a smokeless fire, pour it into rice wine to quench, take it out, dry it and grind it finely. (For every 100 kilograms of actinolite, use 20 kilograms of rice wine)

1. Rihuazi Bencao; When combining actinolite with water, boil it and use it, and the one that turns white will be the best.
2. Gangmu: Wherever actinolite is used, burn it red in the fire, quench it with wine seven times, grind it finely with water, and dry it in the day. It can also be soaked in shochu and put into a jar with camphor to refine it into powder.

[Selection of Prescriptions]

1. Treatment of original qi deficiency and cold, uncontrollable smoothness of essence, sloppy diarrhea, reversal cold of hands and feet: actinolite (forged, ground into very fine particles) and stalactite powder are divided into equal portions. The Aconite Lateral Root is boiled in wine and the paste is made into pellets, as big as phoenix tree seeds. Take 50 pills each time, drink hollow rice to drink, (Jisheng Fang White Pills)
2. Treatment of impotence and genital sweating: actinolite (forged into powder), take 2 qian each time, drink salt and wine. ( Puji Fang )
3. Treatment of disharmony between Chong and Ren; extreme deficiency and cold, persistent metrorrhagia, and other syndromes: actinolite (reddened by fire, do not grind, make very fine) 2 liang, Pilose Antler (remove hair, roast with vinegar) one or two. Make fine powder on top, fry mugwort juice in vinegar, beat sticky rice and make balls as big as tung seeds. Take 100 pills each time and drink it with hollow rice before eating. (Jisheng Fang actinolite pills)
4. Treatment of erysipelas: actinolite (burn, grind into powder), mix with fresh water and apply to the swollen area. (Rumen Shiqin actinolite powder)