Name of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Stalactite (zhongrushi)
Alias: Stalactite, Drip Milk Stone, Lush Stone, Yellow Stone Sand, Lubu.
English Name: Stalactitum
Medicinal Part: Ore of Stalactitum, a calcite of the calcite group of carbonate minerals.
Distribution: Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi. Often born in mountain rock caves.
Harvesting and Processing: It can be harvested throughout the year, knocked down from the rock caves, removing miscellaneous stones, washed and dried in the sun.
Herbal properties: stalactitic aggregate, slightly conical or cylindrical. The surface is white, grayish-white or brownish-yellow, rough, uneven, with tumor-like protrusions, earthy gray, grayish-white or brownish-yellow. Weight, hard, easy to smash, the section is relatively flat, white to light gray-white, to the light observation with shining star-shaped bright, near the center often has a round hole, round solenoid with most of the light orange-yellow concentric ring around the layer. Odorless, slightly salty taste.
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Sexual flavor attributed to the meridian: warm in nature, sweet in taste. Attributed to the lung, kidney and stomach meridians.
Effects: Warming the lungs, assisting yang, calming asthma, suppressing acidity, and promoting lactation. It is a yang tonic classified under the category of deficiency tonics.
Clinical application: 3~9 grams, decoction. It is used to treat cold phlegm and coughing, cold asthma in yang deficiency, lumbago and cold pain, stomachache and acidity, and lactation after childbirth.
Pharmacological research: stalactites in the stomach can neutralize excessive gastric acid, to the intestinal tract after absorption can increase calcium ions in the blood, the sympathetic nerve has an excitatory effect.
Chemical composition: stalactites mainly contain calcium carbonate. It also contains iron, copper, potassium, zinc, manganese and other trace elements.
Contraindications: Not to be taken if the person has a cough due to deficiency of yin, fire and lung heat.
Compound prescription:
(1) treatment of lung qi deficiency, prolonged cough, withered fur, saliva and blood odor, or wheezing: belladonna powder (calcined and cooked), mulberry white skin (honey-roasted), maitake (remove the heart), perilla 1.5 grams each. Ginger three slices, one date. Water one bell, decoction six minutes, take after eating. ("Surgical Lore" bell milk powder)
(2) the treatment of cold cough more than: bell milk powder, ginseng, gelatin (fried). The above three flavors are equal to the end. Mixed with glutinous rice drink. (Ye's Record Examination and Recipes) Zhongmu San)
(3) Treatment of Breast Milk Blockage: 9g of Zhongmu Shi, 12g each of Wang Buliuxing and Smallpox Powder, 15g each of Leakage Reed and Astragalus, take with water. (Qingdao Manual of Chinese Herbal Medicine)
(4) Cure cold and slippery colon: 30 grams of powdered milk of the bell, 15 grams of nutmeg (simmered). For the end, boiled jujube meat pills sycamore seed size. Seventy pills per serving, and drink it down with rice in empty heart. ("Jisheng Fang").
(5) Treating ulcer disease and hyperacidity of the stomach: grind stalactites finely, take 1.8 grams each time, 3 times a day, before meals, with warm water. (National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine)
