Orpiment

This product is crystal Chang Chengzhu shape, often with a curved crystal face, aggregates are rod-shaped, massive, cristate.
Pinyin: Ci Huang
Other names: Huang An
Name: Orpiment
Classification: sulfide minerals ore as orpiment
Medicinal parts: ore
The main origin: Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, produced in Yunnan, Sichuan, Shaanxi etc.
Recovery: annual recoverable
Processing: miscellaneous stone, removing dirt
Chemical composition : containing three two arsenic sulfide ( As2S3), of which61% of 39% arsenic, sulfur, usually with impurities such as Sb2S3, FeS2, SiO2, mud etc.
Tropism of taste: hard, flat, toxic. In the liver by
Function: dampness, insecticidal, detoxification
Attending : cure scabies, malignant sore, snake and insect stings, cold phlegm cough, bug to accumulate abdominal pain.

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