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Glossopetra, Fossil Shark Teeth

Tongue-stones, Ungues Melitenses (Maltese tongues)
Picture
Museum Wormianum, 1655

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Metallotheca Vaticana, Mercati, 1719

Zoological name:
Fossil teeth of lamniform sharks, including Megladon.

Parts used:
Fossil teeth

Temperature & Taste:
Cold, dry. Sweet, Astringent

Uses:
1. Clears Heat, Resists Poison:
-Snake Bite, both to treat, and as an amulet to prevent
-Epidemic Fevers including Small Pox
-also to protect against Witchcraft

2. Clears Heat, Stops Wind, Guides Qi Down
-Childhood Convulsions
-also to prevent Vomiting

3. Moves the Blood
-promotes and quickens Childbirth (as an amulet)

4. Kills Worms:
-regarded as useful for Worms

5. Externally:
-mostly used as amulets to protect against poison, infection, and witchcraft
-infused in water, the water is used as a gargle for Sore Mouth and Throat, as well as toothache
-applied directly to a snake bite they were believed to counter the Venom


DOSE:
600–1200mg with water or wine.

Main Combinations:


Major Formulas:


Cautions:
None noted

Main Preparations used:


History
  'Glossopetra, which resembles the human tongue, is not engendered, it is said, in the earth, but falls from the heavens during the moon's eclipse; it is considered highly necessary for the purposes of selenomancy [Moon divination]. To render all this however, still more
incredible, we have the evident untruthfulness of one assertion made about it, that it has the property of
silencing the winds'. (
The Natural History of Pliny, trans. by Bostock and Riley, Vol. 6, 1858)

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