[Variety Source]
This product is the oyster shell of the family oyster shell (Ostrea gigas Thunb.), Dalian Bay oyster shell (O. talienwhanensis Crosse) or Omi oyster shell (O . rivularis Gould) and other shells. It is distributed along the coast of my country. It can be harvested throughout the year, with the highest yields in winter and spring. After harvesting, remove the flesh and shell, wash and dry in the sun. Use raw or forged. Break into pieces when used.
[Property]
salty and astrigent, slightly cold. act on liver and kidney channels.
[Efficacy]
Pacifying liver and subduing yang, softening hardness and dissipating mass, astringent and solid.
[Indications]
- Used for ascendant hyperactivity of liver yang, dizziness and dizzy vision. This product is salty and cold in nature, and has the effects of pacifying liver and subduing yang similar to Abalone Shell. It is often used to treat water failing to nourish wood, yin deficiency with yang hyperactivity, vertigo tinnitus, often used with Fossil Bone, Tortoise Carapace, Achyranthes Root It can be used equally, such as Zhengan Xifeng Decoction; it can also be used to treat Rebing for a long time, bright true yin, internal movement of deficient wind, and convulsion of the limbs The certificate is always used with Tortoise Carapace, turtle carapace, Unprocessed Rehmannia Root Huang, such as Major Wind- Stabilizing Pearl.
- Used for subcutaneous nodule, scrofula, abdominal mass, abdominal mass, etc. Oyster shell tastes salty, softening hardness and dissipating mass. Use subcutaneous nodule and scrofula to treat fire stagnation, often combined with Thunberg Fritillary Bulb, Scrophularia Root and other medicinals, such as Scrofula-Eliminating Pill ; used to treat blood stasis and abdominal mass stuffiness, mostly used with turtle carapace, Salvia, Zedoary Rhizome Such combination of medicinals; it is commonly used in modern times to treat liver and spleen enlargement and is effective.
- Used for slippery syndrome. This product has an astringent taste and has a similar astringent and astringent effect as Forged Fossil Bone . It is often used with Forged Fossil Bone for mutual reinforcement to treat seminal fluid. Emission, spontaneous seminal emission, enuresis, frequent urination, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, leukorrhea, spontaneous sweating, night sweat and other symptoms of deficiency and slippage, and a combination of medicinals with corresponding tonic and astringent medicinal substances. In recent years, it has been reported that decoction of oyster shell has a good effect in treating lung subcutaneous node night sweat.
- In addition, calcined oyster shell has an astringent and antacid effect, which can cure stomachache and pantothenic acid. Use it together with cuttlebone sepium and Thunberg Fritillary Bulb to make a fine powder and take it orally Take effect.
[Documentation]
- Benjing: "The Lord is frightened and angry, except for arrest and rat fistula, and the woman's leukorrhea is red and white."
- Bielu: "Rong Weixu Heat comes and goes, irritability and fullness, antiperspirant, heart pain and qi stagnation, quenching thirst, removing old blood, astringent small intestine, stopping urination and defecation, treating diarrhea, pharyngitis, cough, stuffiness and heat under the heart. "
- Bencao Beiyao: "Salty is used to soften and harden the phlegm, eliminate scrofula subcutaneous node, and old blood hernia. Astringent is used to tighten prolapse, treat seminal emission and collapse, relieve cough and sweat, and strengthen small intestine."
[Usage and Dosage]
Decoct and take, 10~30g. It is advisable to break it into pieces to be decocted first. Except for astringent, astringent and forged, the rest are used raw.
[Modern Pharmacology]
This product contains 80 to 95% calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate and calcium sulfate, as well as magnesium, aluminum, silicon, iron oxide and organic matter. After calcination, the carbonate decomposes to produce calcium oxide, etc., and the organic matter is destroyed. The calcium salt contained has antacid, grade I sedative and anti-inflammatory effects. It has certain curative effect on gastric and duodenal ulcers. It can also enhance immunity.
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