What are the effects and functions of Yeming Sand?

You may not have heard of night-shining sand? The name sounds nice, but it is actually the dried feces of bats. It is actually a very good Chinese medicine. It is usually collected from the feces of horseshoe bats and big-eared bats. It is best collected in summer and can be dried before use. There are many functions and effects of Yeshisha, let’s take a look.

1. Yeshiyao sand treats amblyopia: 1 liang of cypress leaves (slightly roasted), 1 liang of Yeshiyao sand (fried with glutinous rice until yellow). Grind the above medicines into powder, mix with ox bile and make into pills as big as sycamore seeds. Every night before going to bed, take 20 pills with bamboo leaf soup. At the beginning of the fifth watch, take 20 pills with porridge. (Sheng Hui Fang, Bai Ye Wan, Ming Mu)

2. Yeshiyao sand treats armpit odor: grind Yeshiyao sand into powder and mix with fermented black bean juice. (Compendium)

3. Night-shining sand is used to treat nymphomania in children: fry and grind the night-shining sand, mix with pig bile and make into pills the size of mung beans, and take five pills with dried shrimp water. (Compendium)

4. Night-shining sand is used to treat malaria that occurs at any time and lasts for a long time: 50 grains of bat droppings, half a liang of cinnabar, and one fen of musk. Grind the above medicines into fine powder, mix with soft glutinous rice and make into pills as big as mung beans. When the disease is at its end, take ten pills with warm water. (Sheng Hui Fang)

5. Ye-shining sand treats internal and external disorders: Dissolve the Ye-shining sand powder into pig bile, cook it and drink the juice. ("Ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang")

6. Yeshiyaosha is used to treat abdominal accumulation, cold and heat: 3 qian of Yeshiyaosha, 4 qian of Asafoetida, 5 qian of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, and 6 qian of Red Yeast Rice. Grind them into fine powder, take 2 qian each time, mixed with white soup in the morning. (《Fangmai Zhengzong》)

7. Yeshiyao Sand is used to treat cataracts: one liang each of Yeshiyao Sand (washed), Chinese angelica, cicada shell, and horsetail (without nodes). Grind into powder, add 4 liang of black sheep liver, boil in water until soft, and make into pills the size of walnuts. Take 50 pills with boiled water after meals. (Compendium)

8. Night-shining sand can cure all kinds of malnutrition: Take 50 cents of night-shining sand and put it into a clay bottle. Add 3 liang of lean pork, cut it into thin slices, put it into the bottle, boil it with water, feed the meat to the child, drink the juice, and remove the fetal toxins in the abdomen. Next, use 4 liang of ginger, cut it with the skin and stir-fry it, add 1 liang of coptis root powder, make it into pills the size of millet, take it with rice water, three times a day. (《All Children's Heart》)

9. Yeshi sand to treat swelling and drain pus: 1 liang of Yeshi sand, 0.5 liang of cinnamon, 1 fen of frankincense. Grind it into powder, add half a liang of dry sugar, and mix with well water for application. ("Ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang")

10. Night-shining sand is used to treat prolonged scrofula: 3 grams of night-shining sand and 5 grams of white clam shell (calcined). Grind into fine powder and make into pills with rice, as big as mung beans. Take 2 qian every night with white soup. (《Fangmai Zhengzong》)