What are the effects and functions of gypsum

Plaster of Paris is a crystalline combination of long pieces or irregularly shaped fibers of varying sizes. The whole staff is milky white to gray. The block-shaped ones have smooth left and right sides, dull and without any lines. It is heavy and loose in texture, easy to be divided into small pieces, with fibrous texture on the longitudinal section and a fine cotton-like luster. Odorless, light taste. It is preferred to choose large, white, loose, fibrous pieces without any other stones. When burned, the flame turns light red and light yellow, and can melt into milky white magnetic alkaline spheres. When fired to 120℃, it loses some of its crystal water and becomes milky white powder or small pieces of tender gypsum.

Preparation method of traditional Chinese medicine: take gypsum, remove all the stones, clean the soil, and crush it into small pieces. Calcined gypsum: Take a clean block of gypsum, place it in a tongs pot, calcine it in a smokeless stove until it is loose, remove it, let it cool, and grind it.

It is usually harvested in winter. After digging, the soil and rocks are removed.

Medicinal efficacy and main treatment

Necessary drugs are inert

It can relieve muscles, clear away heat and detoxify, relieve restlessness and thirst, clear away heat and remove fire.

Necessary main inertness

It is used to treat fever with high fever that does not subside, restlessness and coma, delirium and madness, dry mouth and throat, rapid breathing due to lung heat, night sweats due to heatstroke, headache and toothache due to stomach heat, excessive heat and toxicity, skin spots and ulcers due to mouth and tongue. Calcined and applied to remove toxins and heal sores. Special treatment for carbuncle, ulcer, ulcer, burns caused by hot water or fire

Nature and flavor

Spicy, sweet, slightly cold.

Eye bags: "Ben Jing": "It tastes spicy and produces cold."

Pomegranate "Bie Lu": "Sweet, slightly cold, non-toxic."

Planting "Medical Origin": "The Secret of Main Treatments says that it is cold in nature and has a light taste."

Enter the lung, liver and gallbladder meridians.

Eye bags "Tangye Bencao": "Start with Taiyin star, Shaoyang, and Foot Yangming meridian."

Pomegranate "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "It enters Yangming, hand Taiyin and hand Shaoyang."

Usage method Dosage

Oral administration: decoction, 15-50 g (large dose can use 300-400 g); or made into pills or powder. External application: calcine and grind, sprinkle or mix for application. It is advisable to crush and fry before use in medicine

Medication precautions

It is forbidden for those with weak spleen and stomach, deficiency of both Qi and blood, or fever due to yin deficiency. "Medical Origin": "The Secret of Main Treatments says that it can cool the stomach and make people stop eating. It should not be used lightly unless the abdomen is extremely hot."

The efficacy and function of gypsum

1. Cooked gypsum is used to treat the symptoms of Sanyang syndrome, with symptoms of heaviness of the abdomen and the whole body, inability to turn over, numbness of the mouth, dirty face, delirium, and bedwetting. If sweating occurs, the patient will have delirium. If the patient takes medicine, the forehead will sweat, and the hands and feet will be cold. If the patient has night sweats, the patient should take the following medicine: 6 liang of Anemarrhena asphodeloides, 1 jin of cooked gypsum (crushed), 2 liang of licorice (roasted), and 6 he of stalked rice. Add 1 liter of water to the above four ingredients and cook the rice until cooked, then stir-fry the noodles and remove the residue. Take one liter of warm medicine three times a day. (Baihu Decoction from Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

2. Cooked gypsum is used to treat Taiyin star febrile disease. If the patient cannot sweat and cannot sweat, macules will occur. If the patient sweats too much, he will become unconscious, delirious, and develop macules: 50 grams of cooked gypsum, 20 grams of Anemarrhena asphodeloides, 15 grams of raw licorice, 15 grams of Adenophora Root, 10 grams of Rhinoceros Horn, and one cup of white stalk rice. Boil eight cups of water and take three cups of water three times a day. Boil the residue for another hour and take it at night. (Hua Ban Tang from Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

3. Cooked gypsum is used to treat the initial stage of febrile disease when the pulse is floating and strong and the body has a high fever. It can also be used to treat the patient who has a cold and is not afraid of the cold but has a fever in the heart when standing up for the first time: 200 grams of raw gypsum (crushed) and 250 grams of raw rice. Add three bowls of tap water to the above two ingredients and boil until the rice is cooked. You will get two bowls of clear juice. Drink as much as you can while it is hot so that your whole body will sweat and all diseases will be cured. If the Yangming intestinal heat is already severe, there is no need to drink the medicine all at once while it is hot. Rather, drink it slowly and warm to eliminate the heat. ("Zhong Zhong Can Xi Lu" - cooked gypsum stem rice soup)

4. Gypsum is used to treat Yangming internal fire, thirst, loss of appetite, headache, constipation, jaundice, fever, epidemic disease, hot phlegm, wheezing and cough: 300 grams of cooked gypsum (raw) and 50 grams of powdered licorice. Grind the above into a very fine powder and take 5-15 grams each time with freshly drawn water, or hot water, or ginseng soup. It is also effective to add 15 grams of cinnabar to this recipe. (Yuquan San from Jingyue Complete Works)

5. Cooked gypsum is used to treat typhoid fever, fever, salivation, coldness, retention of yang meridians, headache, dizziness and inability to bear it: Take 10 grams of cooked gypsum (calcinated and ground into fine powder) with onion root and tea. Children measure the size and interact with it. (Yuxie Powder from Sanyin Fang)

6. Cooked gypsum is used to treat children's convulsions, typhoid fever, headache, high fever, salivation, palpitations, crying, rough breathing, and heartburn, as well as blockage of qi in the diaphragm: 50 grams each of cooked gypsum and cold water stone, and half a word of musk and ginseng. Grind the above ingredients into powder and mix with rush heart soup. Size interaction service. (Puji Fang Red Peach K Powder)

7. Gypsum with mulberry leaves can clear away lung heat; Gypsum with cinnamon twigs can relieve both exterior and interior heat; Gypsum with white peony root can clear away heat and dampness, and quickly reduce swelling; Gypsum with Anemarrhena asphodeloides can clear away heat, detoxify and relieve restlessness; Gypsum with Pinellia can clear both the lungs and stomach, reduce adverse effects, relieve cough and reduce phlegm; Gypsum with licorice can clear the lungs and relieve cough; Gypsum with bamboo leaves can clear away heat, detoxify and relieve restlessness.

8. Gypsum is used to treat febrile diseases, heat in the lungs and stomach, persistent high fever, dry mouth, irritability, and a strong pulse. The medicinal effect of cooked gypsum is slightly cold, and it is good at clearing away excess heat in the qi, so it is suitable for symptoms of excess heat in the lungs and stomach. It is often used together with Anemarrhena asphodeloides to enhance the effect of clearing interior heat.

9. Gypsum is used to treat eczema, burns, sores that do not heal, and external injuries that do not heal for a long time. Gypsum can be ground into powder and applied externally to treat the above-mentioned surgical diseases. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, astringing, and removing toxins. It is often used together with Shengdan, Huangbai, and Qingdai.

10. Gypsum is used to treat high fever and rashes on the body due to febrile diseases. The appearance of rashes in febrile diseases is mostly caused by excessive stomach fire and intense blood heat, which is a condition of both blood and Qi burning. When encountering this type of symptom in clinical medicine, gypsum, which has a strong heat-clearing and dampness-removing effect, is often used in combination with blood-dispersing and toxin-removing drugs such as Adenophora, Cortex Moutan, Red Peony Root, Fresh Rehmannia, and Isatis Root Granules.

11. Gypsum is used for wind-heat cough and wheezing. When evil heat attacks the lungs, the body will develop symptoms such as high fever, cough, shortness of breath, nasal flaring, dry mouth and thirst. Gypsum can be used to clear the lung heat, and it can be supplemented with ephedra, sweet almonds and other herbs that can clear the lungs, relieve cough and asthma (i.e. Ma Xing Shi Gan Decoction).

12. Gypsum is used to treat headaches, toothaches, swollen and painful gums caused by excessive stomach heat. Gypsum can clear away stomach heat, so the symptoms caused by excessive stomach heat can be used in combination with Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Achyranthes bidentata, and Rehmannia glutinosa.