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Chinese herbal oysters

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Chinese herbal oysters

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Pinyin Mǔ Lì

Aliases oyster clam ("Benjing"), Gu Ben (Yang Fu's "Foreign Object Chronicle"), Zuo Gu Oyster ("Behind the Missing Elbow"), Oyster Clam ("Beilu"), Oyster Room, Oyster Pu ("Materia Medica"), Oyster Shell ("Zhejiang Handbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine"), Sea Oyster Shell, Sea Oyster Seed Shell, Sea Oyster Skin ("Shandong Traditional Chinese Medicine"), Left Shell ("Chinese Medicine").

Source:The Book of Scriptures

The source is the shell of the oyster family Omi oyster, the long oyster or the Dalian Bay oyster. Collectable all year round. After obtaining, remove the meat, shell, wash and dry.

Original form (1) Omi oyster

The shell is 2 pieces, thick, round, ovoid or triangular. The left shell is attached, larger and thicker. The right shell (i.e., the upper shell) is slightly flattened, smaller than the left shell (i.e., the lower shell), and the surface is surrounded by extremely thin and straight yellow-brown or purple-brown scales; individuals aged 1 to 2 years, the scales are flat, thin, brittle, and sometimes free; individuals aged 2 to several years, the scales are flat, sometimes undulating into weak water waves at the posterior edge; individuals who have grown for many years, the scales are layered and thick as stone. The shell surface has gray, cyan, purple, brown and other colors, the inner surface is white, and the edge is grayish purple. The ligaments are purple-black, and the closed shell muscles are very large, pale yellow, mostly oval or kidney-shaped, located on the dorsal side of the middle. The foot is degenerate, without foot filaments.

It lives in rivers and rivers. Omnivorous, feeding on tiny plankton. It is distributed along the coast of China; guangdong, Fujian, Shandong coastal, and aquaculture.

(2) Long oysters

The shell is large, thick, long striped, the dorsal abdomen is almost parallel, and the shell is generally 3 times longer than the shell. The left shell is attached. The right shell is flat as a lid, and the scales are ringed, corrugated, sparsely arranged, and rarely layered. The shell surface is lilac, off-white or yellowish-brown. The inner surface of the shell is porcelain white. The closed shell muscle marks are horseshoe-shaped, brownish-yellow, and located on the dorsal side of the posterior part of the shell. The left shell is concave, and the scales are thicker than the right shell. The flesh is soft and the gills are straight strips, not bent to the back corners.

It is distributed along the coast of our country. It is a fine breed cultivated in the estuary and inner bay.

(3) Dalian Bay oysters

The shell is large , medium thick , elongated anteriorly and posteriorly , and gradually expands from the top of the shell to the posterior to approximately triangular. The left shell is attached. The scales of the right shell rise and fall into a water wave, which is not as flat as the Oyster oyster on the Omi, and the radiating ribs are not obvious. The shell surface is pale yellow; the inner surface of the shell is white. The occlusal muscle marks are white or purple and are located on the back. The fleshy part is elongated, and the gills extend from the front to the center of the rear, with little curvature.

It is found along the northern coast.

The Habitat Division is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Hebei, Liaoning and Shandong coastal areas.

The traits are irregular oval, triangular, or oblong shells of varying sizes, usually 10 to 30 cm long, 5 to 10 cm wide, and 1 to 3 cm thick; the appearance is gray, light gray brown or gray blue, layered, with curved rough layers. The inner surface of the shell is mostly milky white, smooth and shiny, with horizontal stripes at the base, dull, and wavy layers on the edges. The left shell is thicker and larger than the right shell, uneven, the outside of the shell is often attached to conch, moss, etc., the surface is often a hole, there are small shells inside the hole; the right shell is thin and small, relatively flat. The texture is hard, not easy to break, the section is white, and the layers are layered. The smell is breathless and the taste is slightly salty. It is better to be large, neat, and smooth inside.

The chemical composition contains 80 to 95% calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate and calcium sulfate, and contains magnesium, aluminum, silicon and iron oxides. Also known as the shell of The oyster in Dalian Bay, it contains more than 90% calcium carbonate and about 1.72% organic matter; it also contains a small amount of magnesium, iron, silicates, sulfates, phosphates and chlorides. After calcination, the carbonate decomposes to produce calcium oxide, etc., and the organic matter is destroyed.

Prepared raw oysters: washed, dried and crushed. Calcined oysters: Wash the oysters on a smokeless stove fire until they are gray-white, remove and let cool and crush.

Sex taste salty wet, cool.

(1) The Book of Scriptures: "Salty and flat." "

(2) "Don't record": "Slightly cold, non-toxic." "

(3) "Materia Medica": "The taste is slightly salty and slightly astringent, and the air is flat." "

It is classified into the liver and kidney meridians.

(1) "Soup Liquid Materia Medica": "Enter the foot less yin sutra." "

(2) "Materia Medica": "Enter the Foot Shaoyin, Yin, and Shaoyang Sutra." "

Functions indications for yin, latent yang, antiperspirant, astringent, phlegm, soft firmness. Cure epilepsy, dizziness, self-sweating, night sweats, sperm retention, drowsiness, collapse, underband, fistula, gall tumor.

It is used for palpitations and insomnia, dizziness and tinnitus, fistulas, sputum nuclei, fistulas, night sweats, sperm collapse bands, stomach pain pantothenic acid. Calcined oysters converge and are astringent. It is used for self-sweating night sweats, sperm loss bands, stomach pain and acid swallowing.

(1) Yiyin latent yang: raw use to cure yin deficiency and hyper-yang hot flashes night sweats, headache and dizziness, irritability and insomnia and other symptoms.

(2) Soft and firm loose knots: raw treatment of fistulas and lumps.

(3) Solid astringency: calcination is used to treat excessive sweating, sperm retention, belt down, collapse leakage, diarrhea, etc., often compatible with the keel.

(4) It can also be used for excessive stomach acid, often with squid bone.

(1) The Book of Scriptures: "The Lord's typhoid fever is hot and cold, and the warmth is sprinkled, and the anger is frightened, and the woman brings down the red and white." Long serve strong bone joints. "

(2) "Beilu": "In addition to leaving heat in the joint Rongwei, the hypothermia comes and goes, and it is full; it stops sweating, heartache and knots, quenches thirst, and removes old blood." Astringent bowels, stops defecation, relieves ejaculation, laryngeal paralysis, cough, and heart fever. "

(3) "On medicinal properties": "The main treatment of women collapse." Anti-night sweats, in addition to wind and heat, pain relief. Cure warm malaria. And Du Zhong took night sweats. The patient is weak and hot, and the ground yellow and grass are added. "

(4) "Materia Medica": "Mashed into powder, powdered body, lord adult children's night sweats, and ephedra root, cnidium monnieri, dried ginger as powder, to remove yin sweat." "

(5) "Sea Medicine Materia Medica": "The main man left sperm, fatigue and fatigue, tonify kidney righteousness, stop night sweats, go to annoyance, cure typhoid fever phlegm, can nourish and calm the spirit, cure children's seizures." "

(6) "Pearl Sac": "Soft accumulation." It also treats the lower band, warm malaria, sores, and is a soft and firm astringent agent. "

(7) "Outline": "Soft and firm phlegm, clear heat and dehumidification, stop temper pain, diarrhea, red and white turbidity, eliminate hernia masses, gall disease tuberculosis." "

(8) "Medical Intentions in the Middle of the West": "Stop hiccups." "

(9) "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": "For the production of acids, it has analgesic effect on the stomach, cures excessive stomach acid, physical weakness, night sweats and palpitations, meat and so on." It is effective for pregnant women and children with calcium deficiency and tuberculosis. "

Dosage for internal use: decoction, 0.3 to 1 two; or into pills, loose. External use: dry sprinkling, mixing or puff powder.

Note (1) Notes on the Materia Medica: "The mother of the shell is made; licorice, ox knee, Yuanzhi, and Snake Bed Liang are obtained." Evil ephedra, russet, xinyi. "

(2) "Materia Medica": "It is advisable to use those who are sick and weak and hot, those who are weak and cold are taboo, the kidneys are empty of fire, and those who are cold are not appropriate." "

Store in a dry place.

Compound (1) cure vertigo: oysters six dollars, keel six dollars, chrysanthemum three dollars, goji berries four dollars, He Shou Wu four dollars. Serve fried in water. (Handbook of Shandong Chinese Herbal Medicine)

(2) Cure lily disease, thirsty people: chestnut root, oyster (boiling), equal parts. For fine powder, drink square inch dagger, three times a day. ("Golden Essentials" Chestnut Oyster Scatter)

(3) Cure all thirst: the large oysters do not count much, the yellow mud is wrapped in calcination, the cold is the end, the live crucian carp decoction soup is used to adjust the next money dagger, and the children take half a money dagger. ("Empirical Side")

(4) Cure the number of urination: oysters five two (burnt ash), three liters of child feces. Fry until two liters and serve in three servings. ("Qiankun Business")

(5) Cure urinary drenching, take blood medicine ineffective: oysters, yellow cedar (fried), aliquots. For the end, one dollar per serving, cumin soup under the effect. (Fu Zi, "Medical Integration")

(6) In the treatment of collapse, the leakage of red and white is not stopped, and the qi is exhausted: oysters and turtles are three or two each. Upper two flavors, sieve under the cure, wine to serve square inch dagger, day three. (A Thousand Golden Fangs)

(7) Cure deficiencies and new diseases, jin liquid is not solid, the body often sweats, lies down at night, and does not stop, barren and thin, the heart is frightened, short-tempered and tired: ephedra root (washing), astragalus, oysters (rice swill soaking, burning red) one or two each. A total of coarse powder, three dollars per serving, one and a half cups of water, more than 100 grains of wheat, fried together to eight points, go to the hot service, day two, no matter the time. ("Bureau")

(8) Cure night sweats, wind deficiency headache: oysters, white art, windproof three or two. Cure the sieve, the wine serves the square inch dagger, the day two. (Oyster Scatter in "A Thousand Golden Fangs")

(9) Cure night sweats and yin sweats: oysters are fine powdered, and there is sweat where they are puffed. ("Empirical Side")

(10) After treating the temperature disease, the stool is very loose, three or four lines at 12 o'clock on the week, and the pulse is still counted: raw oysters 2 and 2. Finely, eight cups of water, fry three cups, warm three servings. ("Wen Sick Article Discernment" A-jia fry)

(11) Cure all fistulas: (1) oysters (calcination) four two, Xuan Ginseng three two. Pounding luo as the end, with batter pills such as kiriko large, morning and evening after eating, before lying down to take thirty pills, under the wine. ("Experience Side") (2) Oyster powder for five dollars, and chicken bile for plastering. ("The Cure for Pulse Causes")

(12) Cure excessive stomach acid: oysters, sea mantises and slugs are five dollars each, and Zhejiang shellfish are four dollars. Study a fine powder together, three dollars per serving, three times a day. (Handbook of Shandong Chinese Herbal Medicine)

(13) After the treatment of serious disease, small labor and stool epistaxis: left oyster ten points, plaster five points. Mash, wine serve square inch dagger, three or four times a day. It can also be served with honey pills such as Wuzi. ("Behind the Elbow Filling")

(14) Treatment of gold sores bleeding: oyster powder is applied. ("Behind the Elbow")

(15) Temper pain, phlegm. Calcined with oysters into powder, wine is served for two dollars.

(16) Malaria cold and fever. Oyster powder, eucommia, equally divided into ends, add honey to make balls, such as wuzi large. Fifty pills per serving, sent down with warm water.

(17) Qi deficiency night sweats. Use oyster powder, eucommia, and divide into equal parts. One spoonful per serving, wine is delivered.

(18) Night sweats after childbirth. Divide into equal portions with oyster powder and wheat bran (sautéed yellow). For one dollar per serving, the pork broth is adjusted down.

(19) Quench thirst and drink water. Seal the oysters with yellow mud, calcined red, and grind to the end. For one dollar per serving, the live crucian carp decoction is adjusted down.

(20) Lilies become thirsty (from typhoid fever to lily disease, such as cold without cold, such as heat without heat, want to lie down, want to walk, want to eat and do not eat, bitter mouth, urinate naked, general medication is vomiting, become thirsty disease, long-term cure). Use oysters (boiling) two or two, Li Lou root two two, the end of the study. One spoonful per serving, the rice soup is toned down. Take three times a day.

(21) Nosebleeds often occur after illness. Use oysters for ten points, gypsum for five points, and study it together. One spoonful per serving, turn off the wine. You can also add honey as a ball to eat, three times a day.

(22) Urinary lymphatic closure (those who are ineffective in taking blood drugs). Use oyster powder and yellow tillers (stir-fried) and divide into equal portions. For one dollar per serving, the small eggplant soup is sent down.

(23) A large number of urinations. Use oysters five or two, add three liters of urine, fry into two programs, and serve in three times. Extremely effective.

(24) Dreams are left behind. Use oyster powder. Add vinegar and paste to make balls, such as sycamores. Thirty pills per serving, rice soup sent down. Take twice a day.

(25) Scrotal edema with oyster calcination powder two two, dried ginger (cannon) one or two, a total of research for the end, cold water paste applied. Soon, the sac was hot as fire. The medicine is dried and changed until the urine is unobstructed, and the cold water is mixed with paste. Soon, the sac was hot as fire. Replace the medicine when it dries, until the urine is smooth and healed. Another square: change the cold water paste to green onion juice, and the white noodles are homophonous. No need to dry ginger.

(26) Menstruation does not stop. Calcined with oysters. Add rice vinegar to knead into a ball, then calcined and re-studied, add rice vinegar to mix the wormwood leaf paste, and make a ball, such as Wuzi large. 40 to 50 pills per serving, vinegar soup sent down.

(27) Bleeding from knife wounds. Apply with oyster powder.

(28) Carbuncle swelling begins. Apply oyster powder to water. The medicine is dried and replaced.

(29) Fistula. Calcined with oysters, ground to the end. Take four or two, add the last three or two of Xuan Ginseng, and make a ball of batter such as Wuzi. Thirty pills per serving, wine sent down. Take it three times a day, and take it to remove the root. Another side: the fistula is not known to be broken, with oysters four two, licorice one or two for the end. One dollar per serving, after meals, tea soup down. Its effectiveness is extreme.

Clinical application to treat pulmonary tuberculosis night sweats: take oysters for 5 dollars, add 500 ml of water, fry to 20.0 ml for 1 day, take morning and evening (can be flavored with sugar), take for several days; after sweating stops, take 2 to 3 days to consolidate the efficacy. If the effect is not obvious after taking several doses, it can be added or subtracted according to the principle of dialectical treatment. There were 10 cases of treatment, and night sweats disappeared after taking 2 to 3 doses of the drug, and the initial efficacy of 3 cases was not obvious, and two of them also received good results after adding keel and sour jujube kernels to take several doses. No adverse side effects were seen during the course of treatment.

Excerpt from the Dictionary of Chinese Medicine

Chinese herbal oysters

Chemical composition 1. Omi oysters, shell contains more than 90% calcium carbonate, and contains calcium phosphate, calcium sulfate. Shell contains a small amount of magnesium, sodium, strontium, iron, aluminum, silicon, trace amounts of titanium, manganese, barium, copper, zinc, potassium, phosphorus, chromium, nickel and other non-vegetarian, but also contains protein, hydrolysate contains aspartic acid (aspartic acid), glycine (glycine), glutamieacid and other 17 kinds of amino acids, the total amino acid content of 0.15-0.24%.

The soft part contains a variety of amino acids, vitamins, proteins, lipids and the like, after hydrolysis can be obtained glycine, glutamic acid, taurine and other 17 kinds of amino acids 1.3%, glutathione (glutathione), vitamin A, B1, B2, D and F (ie linolenic acid and linoleic acid), inorganic salts (copper, zinc, manganese, ) 17.6%, sulfonate (1-11.53) × 10-6 (dry weight). It also contains trace elements magnesium, iron, selenium, cobalt, nickel, chromium, molybdenum. Its lipids contain a glycolipid, the sugar consists of 2 molecules of glucose and 1 molecule of fucose, another sphingolipid (sphingolipid), containing sugar (glucose gluces, arabinose arabinose, fucose fucose) 22.0%, aminohexose (hexosamine) 7. 26%, methylpentose 10.45%, phosphorus 0.47%.

2. Long oysters, shells contain more than 90% calcium carbonate, and contain calcium phosphate, calcium sulfate. The shell contains a small amount of magnesium, sodium, strontium, iron, trace amounts of aluminum, silicon, titanium, manganese, barium, copper, zinc, potassium, phosphorus, chromium, nickel and other elements, but also contains protein, hydrolysate contains aspartic acid, glycine, glutamic acid, cysteine and other 15 kinds of amino acids, the total amino acid content of 0.24%. After the shell is calcined, there is no longer a protein, and the trace element content is mostly significantly increased. Organic matter accounts for about 1.72% of the shells.

Whole animals with molluscs contain glycogen, taurine, 10 essential amino acids, glutathione, inorganic substances such as copper, zinc, manganese, phosphorus and calcium, vitamins A, B1, B2, D, E, and contain fucose. Long oyster oil contains a variety of lipid mnemonic acids, the content of lipid mnemonic acid is 1.5%, of which the content of omega lipids and acids (eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid) is 15.6%. It has also been reported that the oyster long contains sphingular phospholipids; its lipids contain sterols, and its hydrogenation product seems to be brassicasterol.

3. Dalian Bay oysters, shell contains more than 90% calcium carbonate, organic paper drunken gold fans 1.72%, contains a small amount of silicate, sulfate, phosphate and chloride, calcined sodium carbonate, strontium, silicon, trace amount of iron, aluminum, titanium, manganese, barium, copper, chromium, potassium, phosphorus, zinc and other elements, but also contains protein, hydrolysate contains aspartic acid, glycine, serine (serine) and other 16 kinds of amino acids, the total amino acid content of 0.31%.

Dalian Bay oyster meat contains 63.5% glycogen, taurine 1.3%, 1.3% of 140 essential amino acids, 17.6% of inorganic matter (copper, zinc, manganese, barium, phosphorus, calcium), glutathione, vitamins A, B1, B2, D and F (i.e. linolenic acid and linoleic acid), iodine (1-11.53) × 10-6 (dry weight). Lipids contain one glycolipid consisting of 2 other glucose and 1 other fucoidose, and another sphingolipid contains 22.0% sugar (glucose, araxose, fucose), 7.265 aminohexose, 10.45% methylpentan, and 0.47% phosphorus.

It is also reported that the total (fresh body) of Dalian Bay oysters contains 81.0% water, lipids and 3.9%, and the total lipids and acids contain polyene lipids and acids, such as eicosapentaenoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid, octadecatrienoic acid, a small amount of uncabacarbondienoic acid, and trace amounts of eicosapentaenoic acid.

4. Dense scale oysters, shell contains 80%-95% calcium carbonate, and contains calcium phosphate, calcium sulfate, iron oxides and sodium, magnesium, potassium, iron, chromium, aluminum, chlorine, zinc, sulfur and other more than 10 kinds of inorganic elements. Whole animals with molluscs contain glycogen, bovine iodic acid, 10 essential amino acids, glutathione, vitamins A, B1, B2, D; inorganic substances such as copper, zinc, manganese, barium, phosphorus, calcium, etc.

5. Brown oysters, shells contain 80%-95% calcium carbonate, and contain calcium phosphate, calcium sulfate, iron oxides and inorganic elements such as silicon and aluminum, magnesium, sodium, potassium, chromium, manganese.

All animals with molluscs contain glycogen, taurine, 10 essential amino acids, glutathione, vitamins A, B1, B2, D, inorganic substances such as zinc, manganese, barium, phosphorus, calcium, etc., while copper, cobalt, cadmium, nickel, and lead are lower. It has also been reported that the brown oyster meat in Zhoushan area contains arsenic (2.0-7.4) × 10-6/0.5kg, of which organic arsenic is about 94%.

Pharmacological effects include astringent, sedative, detoxifying, analgesic effects; the acidic extract of oysters inhibits poliovirus in living organisms, reducing the mortality rate of infected mice.

Preparation 1. Raw oysters: washed, dried and crushed.

2. Calcined oysters: The washed oysters are placed on the fire of a smokeless stove and calcined until they are gray and white, then taken out and cooled and crushed.

Sexual taste salty; sexual slightly cold

Attributed to the liver; kidney meridian

Functions indications for the treatment of flat liver and latent yang, heavy town calming, soft and firm loose knots, astringent and astringent. Main vertigo tinnitus; palpitation insomnia; fistula gall tumor; symptomatic fistula; self-sweating night sweats; sperm; collapse; belt down

Dosage for internal use: decoction, 15-30g, fry first; or into pills, loose. External use: appropriate amount, dry sprinkle or adjust the compress.

Note that this product is taken for a long time, which is easy to cause constipation and indigestion.

Compound Town Liver Extinguishing Wind Soup "Medical Heart In the Heart of the Heart of the West"; Tianma Hook Vine Drink "Miscellaneous Diseases Evidence and Treatment of New Meanings"; Ejiao Chicken Yellow Soup "Popular Typhoid Fever Theory"; Dading Fengzhu "Wen Disease Article Identification"; Sanjia Compound Pulse Soup "Wen Disease Article Identification"; Yijia Pan "Wen Disease Article Identification"

Each family discusses 1. Zhang element: The lord of strong water, in order to control the sun, is thirsty and does not think, so clams and the like can quench thirst.

2. "Soup Liquid Materia Medica": oysters, into the foot less yin, salty as a soft and firm agent, with chai hu lead, so it can go to the hardness of the coercion; with tea, can eliminate tuberculosis; with rhubarb, can remove inter-femoral swelling; ground yellow for it, can be refined, astringent, stop urination, the kidney meridian medicine also.

3. "Compendium of Materia Medica" :( oysters) to supplement the yin is used raw, and when it is calcined, it becomes ash and cannot supplement the yin.

4. "Materia Medica": Oysters taste salty and flat, slightly cold, non-toxic, into the foot of shaoyin, yin, shaoyang meridian. Its main typhoid fever, warm malaria sprinkling, shock and anger, leaving heat in the joints to come and go, full of annoyance, gas knot heartache, heart fever under the heart and other evidence, all liver and gallbladder two menstruations are diseases. If the second winter is affected by cold and evil, it is typhoid and cold; if it is wounded in summer, it is sprinkled with warm malaria; if the evil does not come out, the heat comes and goes unsteadily; if the second is evil and depressed, it is a curse in the heart; if the heat and evil are even hot, they are frightened and angry, and they are full of anger and heartache. This medicine tastes salty and cold, and when it enters the Second Classics and removes the cold and hot evil qi, it is guarded and moderated, and all the evidences are all confused. If there is heat in the yin, the woman is white with the lower, and the man is to release the sperm, to relieve the heat of the yin, and to be able to absorb the essence, so the Lord is also.

5. "Benjing Fengyuan": Oysters, "Benjing" cure typhoid fever, warm malaria sprinkling, refers to typhoid fever after sweating cold and heat is not only said, non-positive sweat medicine also. Zhongjing Shaoyang is a sick criminal, there is Chai Hu dragon bone oyster soup, "Golden Kuai" lily lesion thirst, there are wilted oysters scattered, with oysters to disperse the heat of the inner knot. That is, the heat of warm malaria is reversed from within, and the anger of shock is reversed, and it is also advisable to reduce salty cold and discharge. It slows down the rats, the belt is white, always by the sputum accumulation of internal stagnation, and the end can not produce soft and firm loose knots to cure the ear.

6. "Materia Medica Speculation": The use of turtle shells and oysters, which are obviously different, will not be mixed with what is applied, but their heat and softness, every person regards it as an example, indiscriminately distinguished, do not know this legitimate discernment and can not be ignored, "This Sutra" in the turtle nail master's heart peritoneal disease is firmly accumulated, and the oyster lord is shocked and angry. Zhongsheng uses turtle shell on turtle nail decoction pills, so it breaks the fistula. Add oysters to the small chai hu soup, so remove the flank full. From the point of view of Si, the lord of the turtle armor, the hemorrhoids, and the bone steamers, how can they replace the oysters. The lord of oysters, night sweats, quenches thirst, and has a fistula and a nucleus in the neck, how can he replace the turtle shell. The turtle armor removes the evil flesh and also destroys the carbuncle, and the yin benefits and the yang is also harmonious. Oysters cure the frightened and stop the excretors, with the yang both slashing and yin being solid.

7. "Shennong Materia Medica": The Lord typhoid fever is cold and hot, warm malaria sprinkled, shocked and angry, in addition to the restraint of rats, the woman brings down the red white. Long serve strong bone joints. 8. "Famous Doctors": In addition to leaving heat in the joint Rongwei, the hypothermia comes and goes, and the annoyance is full; antiperspiration, heartache, thirst, in addition to old blood, astringent intestines, stop urination, cure ejaculation, laryngeal paralysis, cough, heart fever under the flank.

9. "On medicinal properties": the main treatment of female collapse. Anti-night sweats, in addition to wind and heat, pain relief. Cure warm malaria. And Du Zhong took night sweats. The patient is weak and hot, and the ground yellow and grass are added.

10. "Materia Medica": mashed into powder, powder body, the lord adult children's night sweats; and ephedra root, Cnidium monnieri, dried ginger as powder, to remove yin sweat. 11. "Sea Medicine Materia Medica": the main man left sperm, fatigue and fatigue, tonify the kidneys, stop night sweats, go to the heat, cure typhoid fever phlegm, can nourish the spirit, cure the child's epilepsy.

12. "Pearl Sac": Soft accumulation. It also treats the lower band, warm malaria, sores, and is a soft and firm astringent agent.

13. "Compendium of Materia Medica": soft and firm phlegm, clear heat and dehumidification, stop heart and temper pain, diarrhea, red and white turbidity, eliminate hernia mass, gall disease tuberculosis. 14. "Medical Intentions in the Middle and Western Records": Stop hiccups.

15. "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": for acid making, it has analgesic effect on the stomach, cures excessive stomach acidity, physical weakness, night sweats and palpitations. It is effective for pregnant women and children with calcium deficiency and tuberculosis.

Excerpt from "Chinese Materia Medica"

Chinese herbal oysters
Chinese herbal oysters

Concocted oysters: washed, dried, crushed.

Calcined oysters: Take the oysters and calcinate them until crispy by illumination (Appendix II. D).

Sexual taste salty, slightly cold.

Return to the liver, gallbladder, kidney meridians.

The function is mainly to calm the spirit, the submerged yang supplements the yin, and the soft and firm loose knots. It is used for palpitations and insomnia, dizziness and tinnitus, fistula sputum nuclei, symptomatic fistula. Calcined oysters converge and are astringent. It is used for self-sweating night sweats, sperm loss bands, stomach pain and acid swallowing.

Dosage 9 to 30g, fry first.

Excerpt from the Chinese Pharmacopoeia

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