This product is a crystal obtained by processing and refining the naturally occurring mineral sulfate alumite. Mainly contains potassium aluminum sulfate (KAl(SO₄)₂‧12H₂O). Mainly produced in Zhejiang, Anhui, Shanshan, Hubei and other places. For raw or applicable use. After forging, it is called dry alum.

[Property]

sour and astrient, cold. act on lung, liver, spleen and large intestine channels.

[Efficacy]

External use to remove toxin, killing worms, relieve itching; oral use to resolving phlegm, stop bleeding and diarrhea

[Indications]

1. For eczema, eczema, scabies. Alum for external use can remove toxin killing worms, reduce dampness and relieve itching. To treat eczema cutaneous pruitus, use Prepared Gypsum, borneol, etc., grind into powder and remove externally. To treat scabies and eczema cutaneous pruitus, often use Sulfur , Realgar, etc., grind into powder for external application; to treat thrush in children, use Cinnabar into powder for external application.
2. For chronic diarrhea. This product has intestinal antidiarrheal effect. Often used with Chinese Gall and Chebula Fruit, such as Jingyue Quanshu Yuguan PILL.
3. Used for bloody stool, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis and traumatic bleeding. This product has astringent and hemostatic effects. To treat bloody stool, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis bleeding, it is often used together with Chinese Gall and Sanguisorba; to treat traumatic bleeding, it can be used alone or combined with rosin Grind it into powder and apply it to the injured area, such as Waike Zhengzong Rusheng Jindao Powder.
4. Used for syncope, epilepsy, madness, etc. caused by wind phlegm. This product can dissolve phlegm and treat wind phlegm epilepsy. It is often ground with fine tea and taken as a honeyed pill. It can treat wind phlegm syncope. It can be used with tooth soap and Pineilia and mixed with ginger juice. It can treat wind phlegm syncope. wind phlegm Mania, often combined with Curcuma Root as a pill, such as Alum and Curcuma Pill.
5. In addition, this product can also be used for prolapse of rectum, prolapse of uterus, dampness-heat jaundice and other diseases.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Lord Hanre has dysentery, white fertilization, pudendal sore, eye pain, hard bones and teeth."
2. Bencao Gangmu : "There are four uses of alum stone: to vomit phlegm and saliva that relieves wind and heat, choose its sour and bitter taste; to treat various blood diseases, prolapse of rectum, prolapse of uterus, sore and ulcer, choose its sour and astringent taste. It is used to treat phlegm-fluid retention, diarrhea, belt collapse, and wind eye. It is used to treat phlegm-fluid retention, diarrhea, and drying dampness. It is also used to treat pharyngitis, gangrene, snake bites, and insect stings."

[Usage and Dosage]

For external use, take an appropriate amount, grind it into powder and apply it externally, or dissolve it in water and fumigate it. Take it as a pill and take it as powder, 1~3g.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product mainly contains potassium aluminum sulfate.

• For Staphylococcus aureus, Proteus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, anthrax bacilli, dysentery bacilli, disease caused by cold and paradisease caused by cold bacilli, Candida albicans, Streptococcus, pneumococcus, Diphtheria bacilli and other bacteria have inhibitory effects, and have obvious anti-vagina trichomonas effects.
• In addition, Alum has astringent, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, and hemostatic effects.
• Alum water has water purification and sterilization effects.