What are the effects and functions of the traditional Chinese medicine actinolite?

In normal times, most people must have heard of traditional Chinese medicine. Among the types of traditional Chinese medicine, the more common one is actinolite, which is a food with a mild nature and flavor, which has the functions of nourishing the kidneys and strengthening yang. It is also suitable for consumption on an empty stomach or grinding into pills, and has extremely high effects on the body.

The blocky and dense actinolite is believed by traditional Chinese medicine to be warm and salty in nature, and has the effect of warming the kidney and strengthening yang. It is used to treat symptoms such as impotence, spermatorrhea, and premature ejaculation.

1. The role of actinolite

Treats deficiency of vital energy and cold, inability to control semen, loose stools, and cold hands and feet:

Actinolite (calcined and ground into very fine powder) and stalactite powder in equal parts.

Grind them into fine powder, boil the aconite powder in wine to make a paste and make pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take 50 pills each time, on an empty stomach with rice drink. (White Pills from Jisheng Fang)

Treat impotence and yin sweating:

Actinolite (calcined and ground into powder), 2 qian each time, with salt and wine. (Puji Fang)

Treats disharmony between Chong and Ren meridians; extreme deficiency and cold, continuous metrorrhagia, and other symptoms:

Actinolite (calcined red, ground separately to make it very fine) 2 liang, deer antler (remove the hair, roasted with vinegar) 1 liang. Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, add vinegar and mugwort juice, beat glutinous rice and make into pills as big as tung nuts.

Take 100 pills each time, on an empty stomach with rice water before meals. (Yangqishi Pills from Jisheng Fang)

Treatment of erysipelas:

Actinolite (burn and grind into powder), mix with fresh water and apply to the swollen area. (Yinqishi powder from "Rumen Shiqin")

Treatment of erysipelas swelling and itching:

Calcine the actinolite, grind it into powder, and apply it with clean water.

Spermatorrhea (deficiency of vital energy and coldness, uncontrollable spermatorrhea, cold hands and feet, loose stools):

Calcine actinolite and grind it into powder, add an equal amount of stalactite powder, then add aconite powder cooked in wine, and a little flour to make the medicine into pills as big as walnuts. Take 50 pills each time, on an empty stomach, with rice soup. Until you recover.

Impotence and yin sweat:

Calcine actinolite and grind it into powder. Take 2 qian each time, with salt and wine.

This medicine is commonly used in the following traditional prescriptions:

(1) Bai Wan (Ji Sheng Fang): Actinolite and stalactite, grind into powder, and make into pills. It is used to treat deficiency of vital energy and coldness, and uncontrollable spermatorrhea.

(2) Yangqishi Pills (from Jisheng Fang): Grind up yangqishi and deer antler into powder and make into pills. It is used to treat extreme coldness and persistent metrorrhagia.