Calamine, Lu Gan Shi 炉甘石

Lapis Calminaris, Smithsonite, Zinc spar
Lu Gan Shi (TCM)
Gangs Thigs  གངས་ཐིགས  ('Drops of Snow', Tibetan)
Rasaka, Kharpara (Ayurveda)
Smithsonite
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Mineralogical name:
Calamina; Smithsonitum

Temperature & Taste:
Cool, dry. Sweet

Classifications:
2T. GLUTINATE    2Z. CICATRIZING
4b. OPTHALMICS
TCM:
T. External Medicines

Uses:
1. Clears Heat, Clears the Eyes, Removes Films (West, TCM, Ayurveda, Ancient Egypt):
-red, swollen eyes, Conjunctivitis

2. Dries Damp, Promotes Growth of Flesh:

3. Clears Heat, Promotes Healing:
    
4. Clears Heat and Damp:

5. Rasayana (Bhasma, Ayurveda):


Dose:
Mostly used externally.

Preparation:
... available in PRO version

Main Combinations:
For the Eyes:
1. Sore, red, inflamed eyes and for poor or weak eyesight:
i. the finely levigated powder ... available in PRO version
ii. Calcined Calamine ... available in PRO version
iii. heat a 3 oz. piece of calamine ... available in PRO version
iv. Sore, red eyes, superficial visual obstructions and excess tearing, combine Calamine with ... available in PRO version
v. Calamine, ... available in PRO version
vi. hot water infusion of calcined Calamine and ... available in PRO version

Other:
2. Chronic Fever, Typhoid Fever, weakness after diseases, as a tonic during pregnancy and for Pediatric diseases, combine purified Calamine with ... available in PRO version
3. 'The best tonic in chronic diseases'; also for chronic Lung diseases including chronic Cough, Asthma, Phthisis, combine Calamine Bhasma with ... available in PRO version
4. Diarrhea and Dysentery, Calamine with ... available in PRO version

Externally:
5. Chronic Ulcers and Eczema, combine Calamine with ... available in PRO version
6. Chronic Eczema, Acne Rosacea, red and inflamed skin, combine Calamine with ... available in PRO version
7. Burns, excoriations, sores, superficial Ulcers, Calamine with ... available in PRO version
8. Burns, Calamine topically with ... available in PRO version
9. Ear infection with discharge, Calamine with ... available in PRO version

Major Formulas:
Eyewash of Calamine
Crystal Moon 37 (Zla shel so bdun) (Tibetan Medicine)

Cautions:
1. In TCM it is only used externally.
2. Only applied to the eyes when finely levigated or it can cause damage.

Main Preparations used:
Cerate, Plaster, Ointment
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