Pumex, Pumice, Fu Shi 浮石

Spuma maris ("Sea Foam")
Fu Shi (TCM)
Pumex and Tofus
Conradi Gesneri de Rerum Fossilium Lapidum et Gemmarum, 1565

Metallotheca Vaticana, Mercati, 1719

2 types of Pumice
(Adam, 2022)
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Mineralogical Name:
Pumex; Volcanic scoria

Temperature & Taste:
Cold, dry. Salty

Classifications:
2F. PURIFYING
3K. EXPECTORANT
TCM:
P. Clears Hot Phlegm

Uses:
1. Clears Heat and Phlegm from the Lungs (TCM):
-cough with thick yellow phlegm

2. Clears Damp-Heat, Promotes Urine (TCM):
-Hot painful urination

3. Softens and Clears Lumps and Nodes (TCM):
-Scrofula, Goiter

4. Alleviates Thirst (TCM):

5. Externally:
-pieces of raw Pumice have long been used by women to remove hair from their body by rubbing the course stone across the hair.


Dose:
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Preparation:
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Substitute:
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Main Combinations:
1. Scrofula and Goiter:
i. Pumice with ... available in PRO version.
ii. Pumice with ... available in PRO version
iii. Pumice with ... available in PRO version
iv. Pumice with ... available in PRO version
2. Chronic Cough:
i. Powdered Pumice ... available in PRO version
ii. Powdered Pumice, ... available in PRO version
3. Painful urination, Strangury ... available in PRO version
4. Diabetes, ... available in PRO version
5. Penis pain associated with Hernia, Pumice, ... available in PRO version
6. Swelling and pain of the Penis, ... available in PRO version
7. Toxic Sores, Boils, Carbuncles, Pumice with ... available in PRO version
8. Ear infection with discharge, Pumice with ... available in PRO version
9. Chancre, apply Pumice and ... available in PRO version
10. Tooth powder, Pumice with ... available in PRO version

Major Formulas:
Powder of Burnt Sponge (Wirtzung)
Powder for Scrofula (Palestra Pharmaceutica)
Powder for Scrofula (Wirtzung)
Powder for Scrofula (Bononiense)

Cautions:
Not used in Cold-type Cough

Main Preparations used:
Prepared or Calcined Pumice
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Dioscorides:
'Pumice stone should be chosen which is very light, very hollow, easily cut, without stones, and furthermore both brittle and white. It is burnt as follows. Take as much of it as you wish, hide it in burning coals, and when it is red-hot, take it out, quench it with fragrant wine, then burn it and quench it again. The third time you take it off, leave it alone to cool, and put it in jars to use. It is able to tighten and cleanse the gums, purge away things that darken the eyesight with warming, fill up ulcers and form new skins on them, and furthermore, pounded to powder, it is able to repress abnormal growths and clean the teeth. It forms scabs over any sores on the body, and is a suitable medicine to remove hair. Theophrastus says that if one puts pumice stone into a jar of boiling wine that the boiling immediately stops'.
Salmon, Seplasium:
It is called in Arabic Taneck; in Greek Kisseris; in Latin, Pumex, Lapis Bibulis; in English, Pumice-stone. Found plentifully in Germany and some places in England. Thought to be generated of a torrefied Earth. The best is white and light, most spongy, and easily powdered.

It is a common spongy stone, cool, dries and extenuates, gently cleansing Ulcers, filling them with flesh and Cicatrizing them. It is especially effective for Ulcers of the genitals The fine powder is used as a Collyrium for the Eyes and a Tooth powder to cleanse the Teeth. As a sternutatory it promotes Sneezing. Aldrovandus says it is good for Ringworms. By rubbing the hair with the powder, it removes it. Theophrastus says taken internally it prevents drunkenness. If calcined, it should be washed as Cadmia.