This product is a refined and processed extract of natural sulfur ore. It is mainly produced in Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, and other regions. It can be mined throughout the year. After mining, it is heated and melted to remove impurities, and the upper layer of the solution is extracted and cooled to obtain the final product. Raw sulfur is only for external use. For internal use, it must be boiled with tofu until the tofu turns green, then removed, rinsed, and dried in the shade. When used, it is ground into powder.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

Sour, warm. toxic. act on kidney and large intestine channels.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Removing toxins, killing worms, and stopping itching; tonifying fire and assisting yang, promoting bowel movements.

bubble_chart Indications

1. Used for scabies, alopecia, and eczema. This product has the effects of removing toxin, killing worms, and stopping itching when applied externally, and is particularly effective for scabies. For treating scabies, Sulfur can be ground into powder and mixed with Sesame Oil to apply on the affected area. For treating all types of dry and wet tinea, it can be combined with lime, Minium, etc., ground into fine powder and applied externally to enhance the effects of drying dampness and stopping itching. For treating eczema and cutaneous pruritus, Sulfur powder can be applied alone or used together with Cnidium Fruit and alum to enhance the effects of dispelling dampness and stopping itching.
2. Used for cold asthma, impotence, and deficiency-cold constipation. When taken internally, this product has the effects of tonifying fire and assisting yang, warming yang for relaxing bowels. For treating cold asthma caused by kidney yang deficiency and lower origin deficiency-cold, it is often used with Aconite Lateral Root, Cassia Bark, and black tin, such as in the Hejiju Fang Black Tin Pill. For treating kidney yang deficiency and frequent urination, it can be used with Pilose Antler and Psoralea. For treating deficiency-cold constipation in the elderly due to kidney yang deficiency, it is often used with Pinellia, such as in the Pinellia and Sulfur Pill.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Benjing: "For women with pudendal sores, hemorrhoids, malignant blood, it strengthens bones and tendons, and prevents baldness."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "For chronic diarrhea due to deficiency and cold, efflux diarrhea, cholera, it replenishes the insufficiency of the life gate, sudden collapse of yang qi, yin toxin cold-damage disease, and slow fright in children."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

For external use, apply an appropriate amount by grinding into powder and sprinkling or mixing with sesame oil for topical application. For oral use in pills or powders, take 1-3g.

bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications

Not suitable for pregnant women. Contraindicated with mirabilite.

bubble_chart Processing and Storage

Raw sulfur: Remove impurities and break into small pieces. Processed sulfur: Take cleaned sulfur pieces and cook them with tofu until the tofu turns dark green. Remove, rinse off the tofu, and dry in the shade. (For every 10 jin of sulfur, use 20 jin of tofu.)

Gangmu: "When using sulfur in pills or powders, hollow out a radish, place the sulfur inside, seal it, and roast over rice husk fire to remove the foul odor; cook with purple-backed Spirodela to eliminate fire toxin; rinse with Chinese Honeylocust Fruit soup to remove black liquid. Another method: Crush and place in a silk bag, boil with ash-free wine for three fu periods. Also, niter can dissolve sulfur into water; bury sulfur in a bamboo tube in horse manure for one month to produce sulfur liquid."

bubble_chart Modern Pharmacology

The pure product mainly contains sulfur. After oral administration, a portion of this product is converted into sulfide or hydrogen sulfide in the intestines, which can stimulate the intestinal wall and have a laxative effect. Sublimed sulfur has bactericidal and scabicidal effects; local application can dissolve keratin on the skin. Excessive concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the air can directly paralyze central nervous cells, leading to death.