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Fossil Spirifer

Dove 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.

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.

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:

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