This product is a fossil of the ancient brachiopod Spirifer Fossil family, specifically the Chinese bow Spirifer Fossil (Cyrtospirifer sinensis (Grabau)) and its related species. It is found in Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Shanxi, Jiangxi, and Hanzhong, Shaanxi. After collection, the soil is washed off and the fossil is dried in the sun.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

Sweet and salty, cool, nontoxic. Act on kidney, liver and bladder meridians.

• Rihuazi Bencao: "Cool, nontoxic."
• Pinhui Essence: "Bland, cool."
• Gangmu: "Sweet, cool, nontoxic."
• Yilin Zuanyao Tanyuan: "Salty and acrid, cold."
• Jade Pavilion Medicine Solution: "Act on foot shaoyin kidney meridian and foot taiyang bladder meridian.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Removes dampness-heat, promotes urination, and clears eye nebula.

bubble_chart Indications

Treats gonorrhea, difficulty in urination, leukorrhea, hematuria, bloody stools, hemorrhoids, fistula disease, and eye nebula. Combined with White Mulberry Root-Bark, it promotes diuresis and relieves strangury; combined with Fistular Onion Stalk, it warms yang and promotes qi circulation.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Tang Materia Medica: "Boil in water and drink the juice to treat strangury."
2. Supplement to Materia Medica: "Mainly treats consumptive thirst; take the nose of a water buffalo, boil it, and drink the juice."
3. Introduction to Medicine: "Specifically treats long-standing bloody defecation, hemorrhoids, and fistula disease; boil and drink the juice."
4. Compendium of Materia Medica: "Treats eye nebula."
5. Essential Explanations of Medical Formulas: "Promotes urination, regulates menstruation, stops leukorrhea, and induces labor. Treats dribbling urination with heat and astringency, hematuria, constipation, consumptive thirst, leukorrhea, hemorrhoids, and fistula disease."
6. Exploration of Medical Origins: "Functions similar to stone crab, capable of dispelling wind and removing blood stasis."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

For internal use: decoct in water, 1-3 qian, or grind into juice. For external use: grind with water and apply to the eyes.

bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications

Contraindicated for those with physical weakness, absence of dampness-heat, and pregnant women.

bubble_chart Processing and Storage

Crush or grind with water for medicinal use. Calcined Spirifer Fossil is purified by calcining the Spirifer Fossil until it turns red hot over a fire, then taking it out to cool, and finally crushing or grinding with water for medicinal use.

• Compendium of Materia Medica: "Spirifer Fossil, finely ground, passed through grinding with water for use."
• Yixue Rumen: "Spirifer Fossil, calcined and quenched with vinegar seven times, then separately ground."