The efficacy and function of floating sea stone

There are many common Chinese medicinal materials in life, and Fu Hai Stone is one of them. However, many people are not very clear about Fu Hai Stone. Therefore, before choosing to eat it, you need to understand the effects and functions of Fu Hai Stone.

【English name】 Pumice

[Alias] Pumice, stone flower, sea stone, bubble stone, sea pumice, floating water stone, sheep liver stone

[Source] Medicinal material source: The skeletons of Porphyridae and Porphyridae.

[Original form] 1. A hermaphroditic marine hermaphrodite that lives in colonies and is sessile. The worm is very small and sac-shaped, with a mouth in the front and a horse-hoof-like protrusion on the edge of the mouth, on which there are many tentacles. The digestive tract is bent into a "U" shape, connecting the mouth and the anus, which is also at the front end of the body. The insects secrete calcareous and gelatinous substances outside the body to form the collective skeleton of branches. After the insect dies, grayish white or grayish yellow coral-like skeletons remain.

【Habitat distribution】Ecological environment: 1.

[Properties] Property identification: 1. Pumice is irregular in shape with different sizes, usually 2-7cm in diameter, and some can reach 20cm. The surface is rough, with many pores of varying sizes, and is grayish white or grayish yellow. It is hard and brittle, easy to break, with a rough cross-section and small holes, some with a silky luster or none. It is light and floats without sinking when thrown into water. The smell is faint and the taste is bland. The best ones are light, grayish white and float on water. Produced in Guangdong, Fujian, Shandong, Liaoning and other places.

【Chemical composition】 The main component is calcium carbonate (CaCO3), and contains small amounts of magnesium, zinc, iron, aluminum and other elements.

[Preparation] Pumice: Wash, dry and crush. Calcined pumice: Take clean pumice and place it in a sand pot, then calcine it thoroughly in the fire, take it out, let it cool, and crush it.

【Nature and flavor】 Salty; cold

【Entry】 Lung; Kidney

【Functions and indications】 Clears the lungs and resolves phlegm; softens and disperses lumps. It is used for cough due to phlegm and heat, goiter, and sore.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 9-15g; or made into pills or powder. For external use: appropriate amount, mixed with water.

[Additional prescription] ① Treating sudden and persistent cough: 2 liang of pumice stone. Grind it into powder, mix with refined honey and make into pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take ten pills with porridge each time, three to four times a day. (Sheng Hui Fang) ② Treats asthma in children, all kinds of rheumatism, dryness and heat, cough, phlegm and asthma: 4 grams each of pumice, talc and almond, and 2 grams of mint. The above is very fine powder. Take 2 qian each time, mixed with decoction of Radix Trichosanthis. (Sea Pumice and Talc Powder from "Medical Records") ③ Treat hematuria and painful urination: grind yellow and rotten pumice into powder, take 2 qian each time. Take it with decoction of raw licorice. (Haijinsan from Renzhaizhizhifang)④Treat stranguria with stones: Take pumice stone to fill one hand, put it through a sieve, add three liters of water, soak one liter, boil it and take two liters, clarify it and take one liter, no more than three times. It can also treat cough. Cook it with pure wine. (Gan Jin Fang) ⑤ Treat small intestinal hernia, penis shrinkage cyst: grind yellow rotten pumice into powder. Take 2 qian each time, mixed with decoction of Akebia, Juncus, Red Poria and Ophiopogon. (Haijinsan from Yizhai Zhizhifang) ⑥ Treat all kinds of hernias: Haishi and Xiangfu. Grind into powder and mix with ginger juice. It also treats heart pain. (Dan Xi's Heart Method) ⑦ Treat diabetes: equal parts of pumice stone and indigo, and a small amount of musk. Grind into fine powder. Take one coin each time, mixed with warm water. (Ben Shi Fang)⑧ Treat thirst and incessant drinking: white pumice, clam powder, and cicada shell (without the head and feet) in equal parts. Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, add seven crucian carp gallbladders, and mix with three qian of it, take at any time. (Mana powder from Benshi Fang) ⑨ Treats carbuncle, back rash, and malignant ulcer: 0.5 liang of white pumice, 2 qian of myrrh. Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, and make them into pills with vinegar paste, as big as tung nuts. Take six pills each time, with cold wine. (Ji Lao Dan from Pu Ji Fang) ⑩ To treat pus at the bottom of the ear: one liang of pumice, one qian of myrrh, one word of musk. Grind the above into fine powder. Blow each half word into your ear. (Myrrh Powder from Puji Fang) 11. To treat chronic sores: pumice (quenched several times in burnt red vinegar), honeysuckle. 2 parts Shanghai stone and 1 part honeysuckle, grind them into fine powder. Take 2.5 qian each time, like tea, twice a day. If the sore is on the upper part, take it after meals; if the sore is on the lower part, take it before meals. (The Confucian Way of Caring for Parents)

[Discussions by various scholars] 1. Zhu Zhenheng: Hai Shi, used to treat old phlegm accumulation, is salty and can soften hard masses.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

The above is a detailed introduction to the effects and functions of pumice stone. Your choice should be based on your own needs, so that it will not harm your body and can achieve a good effect in improving the disease.