Quartz

[Source]
From 1. "The Classic."
2. "Wu Pu Materia Medica": quartz, raw Tai-Shan. Shaped like amethyst, White Pond, two elders, three inches. No time taken.
3. "Do not record": quartz, raw Huayin valleys and mountains too. As big as a means, a long two, three-inch, six-sided, such as cutting, Che white light. February mining, no time.
4. Hongjing: Xinan by a home health today, those fine Changbai Che. Shouyang Palgongsan, how much are, subject to those fine white flawless complex. So that is the larger is better.
5. "Tang Materia Medica": quartz, where and recent this Zezhou, Guo states, Luozhou mountains all out. Guo states have a large, diameter three

[Pinyin] Bái Shí Yīnɡ

【English name】 Quartz

[Source]
Medicine-based sources: the oxide minerals of quartz ore.
Latin name of plants and animals, minerals: Quartz
Harvesting and storage: mined, the selection of pure white quartz.

[Original form] Trigonal system. Crystal hexagonal columnar, cylindrical surface of a crystal level of stripes, but also often has druse, granular aggregates such as output. Color is colorless or white, due to impurities contained in the relationship, the crystal often has a variety of colors to light red, smoke color, purple is common. Streak white. Crystal display glass, shiny, blocky lanes are oily sheen, gloss intensity varies. Transparent to translucent, and opaque are. Fracture conchoidal, uneven or irregular-shaped form. Hardness of 7. Proportion of 2.65. Brittle. Of a pyroelectric and piezoelectric.

[Habitat distribution]
Environment: the complete crystal produced in rock crystal cave, often produced in massive hydrothermal veins: is granite, gneiss, sandstone and other rocks of the important part.
Distribution of resources: production in Jiangsu, Guangdong, Hubei, Fujian, Shaanxi.

[Character]
Character identification product hexagonal columnar or coarse granular aggregates, irregular blocks, multi-tools and sharp edges and corners. White or light gray; white streak. Surface is not flat, translucent to opaque, with a fat-like luster. Weight, quality hard, scratch can be carved into the glass; broken, the cross section is not flat. Gas micro-, tasteless. The color white, clear clean, no noise, impurities were better.
Microscopic identification (1) The fine clastic white goods. Chloral hydrate water plant, set under the microscope, colorless and transparent, can be seen in cross-section of the force point as the center of the concentric ripples, like conchoidal, or non-concentric pattern was sub-conchoidal. (2) transmission polarized light microscope, thin slices of colorless and transparent. Low positive processes. Surface smooth, no rough surface phenomenon. See cleavage. The maximum interference color grade Ⅰ yellow-white. Wavy extinction. A-axis crystal. Masamitsu sex. Refractive index No = 1.544, Ne = 1.553.
Check the limits of impurities, according to the quality mark "standard Chinese herbal medicines, Jiangsu Province," 1989 edition provides: ① carbonate: This case of diluted hydrochloric acid powder, carbon dioxide bubbles may occur. ② pH: the product powder and fresh cold water boiling over after shaking the filtrate, add methyl red indicator solution or phenolphthalein indicator solution, were not significant red.

Chemical Composition】 【main containing silica (SiO2), which accounts for about 53.3% of silicon, oxygen accounts for about 46.7%; still contain trace amounts of aluminum, iron, sodium, potassium and so on.

[Identification] amount of powder of this product, add equal amount of anhydrous sodium carbonate, fully mixed, with platinum ear to take a small amount, set the flame burning on the formation of glassy transparent body, and sometimes contain air bubbles inside. (Check silica) X-ray diffraction analysis of the curve: quartz 4.23 (8), 3.33 (> 10), 2.45 (2), 2.23 (1).

[Processing]
1 quartz: washed, dried, smashed.
2. Calcined quartz: quartz smash to take the net, into the crucible of fire in the home smoke-free calcined red, remove and let cool, small study. Also vinegar Duan, they will be quartz crucible, the fire in the smoke-free calcined to flush, pour vinegar into the quenching crisp, remove and then calcined quenching once dry. (100 kg each quartz, with vinegar 20 pounds) 3. "Medicine": quartz, calcined vinegar quenching the fire seven times, with water flying.

[Taste] Gan; Xin; temperature; non-toxic

】 【Go through the lung; kidney; Heart Sutra

【Indications】 warm lung; peace of mind of God; Lee urine. Lungs cold cough; impotence; Diabetes; uneasy; horrified forgetful; urination; jaundice; stone water; wind musculoskeletal

Oral Dosage: Decoction, 3-5 money; or into pills, powder.

[Note] "was equipped with Materia Medica": Jiufu more services are strength subsidence.

[Side] lungs with soup, "San Franciscans overall record"; quartz soup "Chicken peak Universal Relief"; quartz soup "San Franciscans overall record"; Rehmanniae soup "San Franciscans overall record."

[] Discussed various
A. "The drug": wet can go dry, that the Amethyst, quartz is also the case.
2. "Ben Cao Yan Yi": purple, white two quartz, when attacking disease, can be used temporarily broth, and the benefits have not heard Jiufu. Zhongjing (wind cited soup) meaning, just so fu Tsui, who is not fine, Yan Qi intention. The Jiufu, more detailed examination should be.
3. "Herbal medicine prepared to": that is run by the wet also. Run many drugs, the final dry stone medicine, and Xu was taken two quartz Run agent, can also keep its meaning.
4. "Sutra": the main diabetes, lack of vaginal atrophy, Keni (a gag reverse), mediastinoscopy between the long cold, Qi, in addition to rheumatism.
5. "Do not record": treatment Fei Wei, under the gas, urine, make up the five internal organs.
6. "Medicinal theory": Zhifei carbuncle can spit pus, rule against the upper airway cough, jaundice yellow.
7 Wang Hao Gu: real large intestine.
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