This issue then returns to The Thanh Hoa hot phlegm medicine and shares with you the animal shellfish medicine: corrugated seeds. Corrugated zi, ancient name "Kui clam", "cockle", also known as "walangzi", "Materia Medica" said: "The name of the kui soup bucket, the clam shape of Xiao also." Cockles taste sweet, so from sweet. Case Ridge Table Record Different Clouds: Nanren's name is Empty Cizi. Shangshu Lujun changed its shell to a ridge of a tile house and a tile house. "In addition to dissolving sputum, it is also one of the main drugs for the treatment of stomach pain."
The story of corrugated
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that the clams are born in the East China Sea. Round, empty at both ends, table with text, timeless. [Hongjing Yue] shaped like a spinning, small and narrow, with vertical and horizontal literature outside, the cloud is the old bat, the square is used at least. "[Hidden Vessels] "Cockles grow in the sea. Shells like tile houses. [Bao Sheng Yue] Now out of Laizhou, round and long, like a large belly betel nut, there are holes at both ends. [Shi Zhen Yue] "According to Guo Pu's "Erya" Note Cloud: Kui Lu (alias name) is now the cockle, shaped like a small clam and round and thick. "Linhai Foreign Object Chronicle" Cloud: The big one of the cockles is four inches in diameter, and the ditch on the back is like the ridge of the tile house. The meat tastes excellent. Nowadays, in eastern Zhejiang, it is planted in the coastal fields, which is called the cockle field. ”
The origin and role of corrugated seeds
Source: This product is the shell of the cockle family Hairy Cockle, Mud Cockle or Cockle.
Origin: The main production is Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Guangdong, Liaoning and other places.
Taste: salty, flat; return to the lungs, stomach, liver meridians.
Effect: Eliminate sputum and dissolve stasis, soft and firm loose knots, make acid and relieve pain.
Use note: This product should be used after concoction, after concoction, called calcined corrugated.
Calcined corrugated seeds: put the washed corrugated seeds in the pot, cover a slightly smaller pot, seal the gap with yellow mud, do not make the air leak, paste a white paper on the bottom of the pot and press it with a heavy object, calcinate until the white paper becomes yellow, take it out to cool, and crush it. You can also put the corrugated seeds in a crucible pot or other utensils, polish them in a smokeless stove until they are red, take them out to cool, and crush them.
Dosage: 9 ~ 15g, should be fried first.
Corrugated taking
1 Salty, soft and firm taste, eliminate stubborn phlegm, scatter depressed knots
For the treatment of gall tumors and sputum nuclei, it is often used with seaweed and laminale.
2 Cure the fistula of phlegm fire condensation, often with shellfish, summer dry grass, forsythia, etc., to eliminate phlegm and clear the fire.
3 For symptomatic fistula blocks
Corrugated seeds can not only dissolve stasis and dispersion, but also eliminate phlegm soft and firm, suitable for qi stagnation, blood stasis and phlegm accumulation caused by the fistula, often with the three ridges, curcuma, turtle nails and so on.
4 Pantothenic acid for stomach pain
Corrugated seeds can make acid and relieve pain, stomach pain noisy, pan spit acid water, often with huanglian, evodia, squid bone, incense and other uses; constipation knots, can add rhubarb; stomach hibiscus, can add galangal; long-term illness and stasis, can add Yan Huso, five spirit fat.
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