The role of gypsum powder

Gypsum powder is mainly used for base treatment. For example, filling gaps, straightening corners, and making the walls of a rough house smooth when applying the first coat of putty. Putty is not only used in these places, but it is also used a lot in medicine. But what are the functions of gypsum powder?

Because gypsum powder has many functions, this kind of gypsum powder is a collection of long blocks or irregular crystals of different sizes. The whole body is white or grayish white. For large pieces, the upper and lower surfaces are very flat, without any gloss or even texture. Long block-shaped or irregular fibrous crystal aggregates of varying sizes. The whole body is white to grayish white. The upper and lower surfaces of large pieces are flat, without any luster or texture. It is heavy and loose in texture, easy to break into small pieces, with a fibrous texture in the longitudinal section and a silky luster. Odorless, light taste. The best ones are large, white, loose, fibrous and free of stones. When burned, the flame turns it into a light reddish yellow color, and it can melt into white magnetic alkaline balls. When fired to 120℃, it loses some of its crystal water and becomes white powder or block-like tender gypsum.

Gypsum is used to treat Yangming internal heat, thirst, headache, constipation, jaundice, fever, phlegm, wheezing and cough. 300 grams of gypsum (raw) and 50 grams of powdered licorice. Grind the above into very fine powder and take 5-15 grams each time with freshly drawn water, hot soup, or ginseng soup. Adding 15 grams of cinnabar to this recipe is also effective.

Gypsum with mulberry leaves can clear away lung heat; gypsum with cinnamon twigs can relieve both exterior and interior effects; gypsum with angelica dahurica can clear away heat and purge fire, reduce swelling and relieve pain; gypsum with Anemarrhena asphodeloides can clear away heat and relieve restlessness; gypsum with Pinellia can clear both the lungs and stomach, reduce adverse reactions and resolve phlegm; gypsum with licorice can clear the lungs and relieve cough; gypsum with bamboo leaves can clear away heat and relieve restlessness.

Because this kind of gypsum powder has many functions, so when we use gypsum powder, it is not only used on indoor walls. After understanding the above-mentioned functions of gypsum powder, we must learn more about it. This is the most reasonable point, and we still have to keep it in mind.