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Fossil SpiriferDove Stone, Swallow Stone
Shi Yan 石燕 ('Swallow Stone', TCM) |
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Fossilve Spirifer (Adam, Chengdu Medicine Market, 2016)
Zoological name:
Devonian fossil brachiopods including Spirifer disjunctus
Parts used:
Prepared Fossil
Temperature & Taste:
Cool, dry. Salty, slightly Sweet
Constituents:
Mainly calcium carbonate, silicon dioxide, small amount of phosphoric acid.
Devonian fossil brachiopods including Spirifer disjunctus
Parts used:
Prepared Fossil
Temperature & Taste:
Cool, dry. Salty, slightly Sweet
Constituents:
Mainly calcium carbonate, silicon dioxide, small amount of phosphoric acid.
Uses:
1. Clears Wind-Damp:
-Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis
2. Clears Damp-Heat:
-Diarrhea, including that with Blood and mucus; Blood in the Stool
-painful Urination, Strangury, Blood in the Urine
-Skin diseases with Heat and Damp
-Gastritis and Hyperacidity
3. Externally:
-finely levigated powder is applied to Nebula
-has been used in Tooth powders for Toothache
DOSE:
Of the Fine Powder: 500mg–2 grams
In Decoction: 3–9 grams, decocted before adding herbs.
PREPARATION:
1. It can be calcined until red and quenched for use. This facilitates pulverisation.
2. It can be heated until red and vinegar-quenched. This facilitates pulverisation, and leads the medicine to the Liver.
Of the Fine Powder: 500mg–2 grams
In Decoction: 3–9 grams, decocted before adding herbs.
PREPARATION:
1. It can be calcined until red and quenched for use. This facilitates pulverisation.
2. It can be heated until red and vinegar-quenched. This facilitates pulverisation, and leads the medicine to the Liver.
Main Combinations:
1. Painful urination, take the powder with white onion soup (Ben Cao Kang Mu)
2. Severe diarrhea, take the Powder with Rice porridge (Ben Cao Kang Mu)
Major Formulas:
Cautions:
1. Not used in Pregnancy
2. Not used in Cold and Weak digestion.
Main Preparations used:
1. Not used in Pregnancy
2. Not used in Cold and Weak digestion.
Main Preparations used: