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Verdigris, Aerugo, Tong Lu 铜绿

Verdigris, Copper acetate
Aeris erugo
Tong Lu (TCM)
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Aeris erugo
Hortus sanitatis
, 1491


Mineralogical Name:
Copper subacetate

Parts used:
Two main types recognized:
  1. Blue or French Verdigris, consisting chiefly of mono-basic Copper Acetate;
  2. Green, English, German or Swedish varieties which is chiefly semi-basic Copper Acetate.

Temperature & Taste:
Hot, dry. Toxic

Uses:
1. Clears Heat and Toxin, Promotes Healing:

-principally used to clean foul and stinking Sores and Ulcers, Fistulas, and Fistulous Ulcers

2. Clears Heat and Damp, Resists Poison:
-Tinea, Scabies, Herpes
-Gangrene

3. Escharotic
-when applied in concentrated form


Dose:
Only used topically

Comment:

Verdigris is highly irritant. When diluted in ointment form it was principally used as a stimulant to foul and non-healing wounds, sores and ulcers.

Substitute:
Verdigris is used similarly to Burnt Copper, but the latter is more strong and irritant.

Preparation:
1. Traditionally, leaves of copper were put in a large earthenware container, sprinkling vinegar or vinegar and brine in between the sheets, and layering them one upon the other. The vessel is sealed, left for 7 days, then the sheets are carefully removed and the Verdigris carefully removed and collected.
2. Copper sheets can also be hung in the vapors of steaming vinegar.

Main Combinations:
1. Mixed with Honey and Vinegar to cleanse, dry and heal foul sores and ulcers (as in Egyptian Ungent)
2. Ulcers, mixed with Honey, Vinegar and burnt Alum
3. Foul mouth Ulcers, with Alum and Copperas, mixed with white wine and a little brandy as a mouth wash (not to be swallowed)
4. Ulcers of the nose or mouth, with Honey of Roses, Sulphur, Alum, St. Johns wort, Rosemary, Rue, Plantain, Sage (as in Green Water of Hartman)

Cautions:
Verdigris is highly irritant and is generally not used internally. Externally, it should be well diluted and was often mixed with Honey to abate its sharpness.

Main Preparations used:
The Egyptian Ungent, The Divine Plaster, The Black Plaster, Apostolicon

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Salmon, Seplasium:
'To make Verdigris. Take plates of Copper and hang them over the Fumes or Vapors of Wine or Vinegar, and it will convert them into Verdigris, which is continually to be swept off as it arises, till the plates are wasted'.

'It cures diseases of the Eyes, and effectually takes off Films and Pearls, and other things which obfuscate and hinder the Eye-sight'.

'It is also good against inveterate and stubborn Ulcers, which resist all other Remedies, chiefly such as are in the Joints, accompanied with a vehement Running, not to be healed scarcely by any other remedy'.

'Topically applied in the Gout, by dissolving it in fair water, and using it warm to the part, it is of good use'.

'Before you use it for the Eyes, or for Wounds, or Ulcers, you ought to purifie it after this manner.

Powder it, and pour upon it Spirit of Vinegar, 6 or 7 times its weight: digest till the vinegar is tinged very green; which decant, and cast away the feces: then evaporate the Vinegar in a Brass Vessel; so have you a glorious colored Verdigris at bottom, of which one ounce is worth ten ounces of the former'.

This prepared Verdigris made into an ointment with Honey, Juices of Wound-herbs, Vinegar etc. is applied to Weeping Wounds, Ulcers of the Joints or elsewhere.

'If it be taken inwardly, it is poisonous, being hot and dry in the fourth degree, causing pain in the Stomach and Belly, Vomiting, Fluxes, Ulcers, and difficulty breathing, &c. If any one has been poisoned with it, the only remedy is warm water with Oil, Butter, Clysters [Enemas], juice of Mint, Acorns, Terra Sigillata, Coral, Alcalized Salts, and such things as are good against the Poison of Arsenic'.

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