[Variety Source]
This product is the outer skin of the vertebrate Elephantidae.
[Property]
sweet and salty, cold.
[Efficacy]
healing up sore and promoting granulation.
[Indications]
Used for sores that do not heal for a long time. This product specializes in astringent, can promote muscle growth and reduce sores, promote the healing of sores, and cure ulcer. This product can be used with pearl, borneol, and Dragon's Blood Resin, catechu and other medicines are ground into powder and applied externally.
[Documentation]
- Bencao Gangmu: "chancre, burn ashes and oil to apply it. It is also suitable for treating incised wounds."
[Usage and Dosage]
Appropriate amount for external use.
[Processing and Storage]
1. Cleaning: remove impurities and wash clean ("Standards").
2. Cutting: wash clean, steam or bake until soft, cut into thin slices while hot, and dry ("Specification").
3. processing
- Talc powder preparation: Put Talc powder in a pot, stir-fry with strong fire, add elephant hide slices, stir-fry until puffy, take it out when it turns yellowish brown, sieve out Talc powder, let cool and grind into fine powder. Each elephant hide piece is 100kg, and 30kg of Talc powder is used ("Specification").
- Hot: Heat the sand in a pot, add elephant hide pieces, stir-fry until swollen and puffy, take out, sieve to remove the sand, and grind into fine powder ("Liaoning").
- Earthmade
- Use strong fire to heat the white soil, pour in the elephant hide pieces mentioned above, stir-fry until all the pieces swell up and turn slightly yellow, take out of the pot, sift out the white soil, and spread it out. Let cool ("Gansu").
- Put fine loess in a pot and heat until loose, add elephant hide slices, stir-fry over mild fire until foaming and turns yellow, take out, sift the loess and let cool ("Ningxia").
- Clam Shell Powder Preparation: Roast elephant hide until soft and chop into pieces, then add Clam Shell Powder to a pot and fry together, take out and grind into powder ("Integration").
- Preparing charcoal: Put elephant hide slices in a pot, fry them with strong fire until they are charred black, take them out and grind them into fine powder ("Guangdong").
[Selection of Prescriptions]
Pearl powder Zhangshi Yitong: pearl, calamine, amber, Fossil Bone, red halloysite, stalactite, Cinnabar, Dragon's Blood Resin, elephant hide. External treatment means ulceration and no flesh growth.
[Supplementary Medication]
Ivory shavings: Ivory shavings. Sweet and cold in nature and flavor. Function: clearing away heat and calming convulsion, drawing out toxin and promoting muscle growth. It is suitable for phlegm-heat fright epilepsy, pharyngitis swelling and pain, carbuncle sores, hemorrhoids and fistulas. The general dosage is one to three qian, decoction and taken. It can be ground into powder into pills or used externally.