The efficacy and function of pumice

The choice of medicine for treating diseases is critical. Different medicines have some differences in treating diseases, so you need to pay attention to this when choosing medicine for treatment. In the process of treating diseases, you also need to pay attention to its usage method. The usage of herbal medicines and patent medicines is different. You also need to pay attention to this. Pumice is a very good medicine for treating diseases. What are the effects and functions of pumice?

Many people don’t know much about the effects and functions of pumice, so before choosing it, you need to understand it. In this way, when treating diseases, you will know what aspects of it can be used to treat human diseases and whether it is the best choice.

The efficacy and function of pumice:

Clears lung fire, transforms old phlegm, softens hard masses, and relieves stranguria. It is used to treat cough, wheezing and heat due to phlegm, accumulation of old phlegm, goiter, scrofula, gonorrhea, hernia, sores and swelling, and eye opacity. Clears the lungs and resolves phlegm, softens and disperses lumps. Used for cough due to lung heat, thick and yellow sputum, hemoptysis, bronchitis, and lymph node tuberculosis.

①Tao Hongjing: relieves cough.

② "Bencao Shiyi": Treats thirst.

③"Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): quenches thirst, treats stranguria, and kills poisonous wild animals.

④ "Bencao Yanyi": Water-flying can treat cataracts in the eyes.

⑤ Zhu Zhenheng: Clears away metal and reduces fire, eliminates lumps, and transforms old phlegm.

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica": It can eliminate goiters, tuberculosis, hernia, relieve gas, and eliminate sores and swelling.

⑦ "Bencao Zheng": Helps digestion, eliminates heat and phlegm, relieves fever, thirst and hot stranguria, stops phlegm, cough and asthma, softens hard lumps and promotes diuresis.

Choice:

①To treat sudden 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)

②For the treatment of asthma in children, all kinds of rheumatism, dryness and heat, cough, phlegm and asthma: 4 grams each of pumice, talcum powder and almond, 2 grams of mint, grind them into very fine powder. Take 2 qian each time, mixed with decoction of Radix Trichosanthis. ("Medical Records" from Haipumice Talc Powder)

③ Treat hematuria and painful urination: grind yellow rotten pumice into powder, take 2 qian each time. Take it with decoction of raw licorice. (Haijinsan from Renzhai Zhizhi Fang)

④Treat stranguria with stones: Take enough pumice to fill one hand, put it through a sieve, add three liters of water and one liter of vinegar, boil it and take two liters. After it is clarified, take one liter. Do not take more than three times. It can also treat cough. Cook it with pure wine. (Qianjin Fang)

⑤ Treat 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 Renzhai Zhizhi Fang)

⑥Treatment of hernia: Haishi and Xiangfu. Grind into powder and mix with ginger juice. It also treats heart pain. (Danxi Heart Method)

⑦ Treat diabetes: equal parts of pumice stone and indigo, and a little musk. Grind into fine powder. Take one coin each time, mixed with warm water. (《本事方》)

Through the above introduction, we have some understanding of the efficacy and functions of pumice, so when choosing it, we must be careful and not use it casually, especially in the process of treating diseases, it can also be used in combination with other medicines. This is also very helpful in improving the disease and making the disease better.