Alum

Overview: This product is extracted from sulfate alum stone processing. The main content of aluminum potassium sulfate [ KAL ( SO4 ) 212H2O]. Pounded, student or duan. Calcined known alum.
Alias: alum, alum stone
Resistance type: no classification
Taste and tropism: sour and astringent, cold. Lung, spleen, liver, colon by.
Actions: external detoxification of insecticidal astringent hemostatic antipruritic; internally, dysentery, heat xiaotan. For eczema, eczema, scabies, vomiting blood, long time diarrhoea caused by wind, phlegm syncope, epilepsy, hysteria.
Usage and dosage: topical amount, grind end Caesar; or powder or water washing. The bolus dispersion, 1-3g. Feeble and weak stomach without heat phlegm fire not to wear.
Storage: a dry place.
Clinical application of:
1 epilepsy pill (" medicine" in gold. ) for blinded judgment caused by sudden falls, coma convulsion, spit saliva, trismus : alum, lapis micae aureus, scorpion, the equal of Coptis chinensis. Oral, a 6G, a 1-2 time. Method of alum heat Xiaotan, as monarch drug.
2 recipe: treat gastric, duodenal ulcer: alum 6G 10g, Rhizoma Corydalis, cuttlefish bone 10g 6G, licorice, ground into fine powder, oral, a 6G, 3 times a day. Method of alum hemostasis, as monarch drug.
3 (" Shen Nong's Materia Medica" ):" Lord fever Xie Li, white Wo, vaginal erosion, eye pain, bone and teeth".

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