【Name】Realgar
【拼音名】Xiónɡ Huánɡ
English name: REALGAR
[alias] Mingxiong yellow, gold stone, stone yellow
【Source】This product is a sulfide mineral realgar of the realgar family, which mainly contains arsenic disulfide (As2S2). After excavation, impurities are removed. or concentrate fines produced by flotation of low-grade ores.
【Morphology】Monoclinic crystal system. The crystal is columnar, with longitudinal stripes on the crystal surface, mostly in dense blocks or granular aggregates. The color is orange-red, with a few dark reds. Streaks pale orange-red. The crystal mask is diamond luster, and the section is resinous luster. Semitransparent. The cleavage is relatively complete. Fractured shell-like. Hardness 1.5~2.0. The specific gravity is 3.4~3.6. Brittle. Under the effect of light, it will turn into orange-red powder for a long time. It is produced in low-temperature hydrothermal veins, and is also found near hot springs and volcanoes. It is often symbiotic with realgar and stibnite.
【Distribution】Produced in Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan and other places.
【Character】It is irregular and uneven, with different sizes. The whole is dark red or orange red, and the surface is often covered with orange-yellow powder. Weight, loose and brittle, rough cross-section, red, bright. There is a slight peculiar odor. Among them, the brightly colored, translucent, and shiny ones are commonly known as "Mingxiong", "Xiongjing" or "waist yellow". It is better to have red color, large block, loose quality and no stone. Insoluble in water and hydrochloric acid; Soluble in nitric acid, the solution is yellow; It is brown when dissolved in sodium hydroxide solution. It is easy to melt into a reddish-purple liquid, and produces yellow-white smoke, with a strong garlic odor; After cooling, the melt condenses into a reddish-purple solid, and the pure one condenses into an orange-red solid. The traits of orpiment and realgar are relatively similar, but orpiment is yellow, while realgar is red or orange-red, which can be distinguished.
【Processing】Ground into a very fine powder. Residual water flies and dries. "Compendium": "(Realgar) boil rice vinegar into radish juice and use it dry. "
【Sexual taste】Hard, warm, poisonous.
(1) "Benjing": "The taste is bitter, flat and cold." "
(2) "Don't Record": "Sweet, big Wen, poisonous." "
(3) "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": "Pungent taste." There is a big poison. "
(4) "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Slightly toxic. "
【Guijing】Into the heart, liver, stomach meridians.
(1) 《纲目》: "入liver 经气分. "
(2) "Materia Medica": "Enter the Yang Ming Sutra." "
(3) "Materia Medica": "Into the heart, the liver two meridians." "
【Efficacy】Dryness, dispelling wind, killing insects, detoxifying. Treatment of scabies, bald sores, carbuncles, mange, loincloth, tetanus, snakes, insects and crabs, armpit odor, aceanine, asthma, laryngeal paralysis, epilepsy, hemorrhoidal fistula.
(1) "Benjing": "The Lord is cold and hot, rat fistula, malignant sores, hemorrhoids, dead muscles, and kills all insects." "
(2) "Don't Record": "Treat scabies, sores, eye pain, nasal polyps and broken bones." Gale in the hundred sections, accumulation, addiction, abdominal pain, killing snakes and poisons, and detoxifying veratrol poison. "
(3) "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Cure scabies, wind evil, epilepsy, miasma, all snakes, insects, dogs and beasts." "
(4) Wang Haogu: "Search for liver qi, diarrhea liver wind, and eliminate salivation." "
(5) "Compendium": "Treatment of malaria, cold and heat, diarrhea, alcohol addiction, epilepsy, dizziness, blood stasis in the abdomen, killing insects and chancres." "
(6) "Materia Medica": "Cure carbuncle carrion, and rat impotence, gangrene, hemorrhoids and other poisons." (Efficacy and function of realgar)
【Usage】External use: grinding and sprinkling, dressing or burning smoke. Internal administration: into pills, powder, 1~4 minutes.
【Note】Yin deficiency and blood deficiency and pregnant women should not take it. "Materia Medica": "Blood deficiency is taboo." "
【Prescription】(1) Treatment of scabies: one tael of realgar, two taels of Coptis chinensis, three taels of pine resin, gray like a projectile. The four things are melted with the pig paste and the pine resin, and the hot pound is used to thin the sores. (Behind the Elbow)
(2) Treatment of ringworm: realgar powder, sorrel and. Wipe it with a new cloth first, so that the ringworm is injured, and apply it. (A Thousand Golden Wings)
(3) Treatment of scabies all over the body: realgar and cnidium monnieri are divided into equal parts, both are finely ground, and the mercury is halved. Mix with lard and pound well, enter the mercury and then grind, and take the star as the degree. Wash with soup in the morning and evening, and apply the medicine. ("Jiang Yuefeng's Family Heirloom")
(4) Treatment of white bald sores: realgar, pig bile. and Shiki. (The General Record of the Holy Spirit)
(5) Treatment of carbuncle rot and sores poisoning: realgar five coins, talc doubled. The top is the end, mixed with sores after washing, and covered with cotton externally. Those who are tattered after washing, use this sticker. ("The World Doctor's Effective Prescription" Raw Flesh Divine Anointment)
(6) Treatment of counterpart pain: one penny of realgar, one tael of Wu Zhuyu. At the end, the sesame oil is boiled and blended. ("Extensive Collection of Experience" Xiongwu San)
(7) Treatment of boils: acupuncture the four sides and center, apply male yellow powder. (A Thousand Golden Prescriptions)
(8) Cure Ma Yafu, stinky rot and bleeding: seven large soybeans. Each grain is wrapped in a jujube with a pit, and the iron wire is strung on the lamp and burned to the end. Every little mix with it, salivate, to heal the degree. (The Whole Child's Heart)
(9) Treatment of snake sores: realgar is the end, vinegar is adjusted, and wine is still used. It can be used for all injuries caused by snakes, bees, centipedes, poisonous insects, and dogs. ("The World Doctor's Prescription")
(10) Treatment of tetanus: one penny of realgar, two coins of parsnip, and one penny of grass. The top is finely minced, each serving - the word, and the warm wine is adjusted down. The more convincing the inner and the more convincing, the disconvincing is unconvincing. ("Sutong Disease Mechanism Life-Saving Collection" published Xionghuang San)
[Discussion] (1) "Compendium": "Realgar is an important medicine for treating sores and killing poison, and it enters the liver meridian qi, so the liver wind, liver qi, epilepsy, phlegm and salivation, headache, dizziness, summer malaria and diarrhea, accumulation of diseases, it has special merits; and it can turn blood into water. And Fang Shi is refining and serving bait, and there are many people who are poisoned by it. "
(2) "Materia Medica": "Realgar, bitter and flat, cold and poisonous, "Don't Record" plus sweet, big warm, Zhen Quan Yan bitter, big poison, check its function, it should be the medicine of hard and warm, and sweet is not. Its main cold and heat, rat fistula, sores, hemorrhoids, dead muscles, scabies, hidden sores are all caused by damp heat and stagnation muscles, and for a long time it is soaked and insects, this medicine is bitter and hard, can dry and damp and kill insects, so it is a medicine for sores. Those with polyps in the main nose, lung qi knots, qi addicts, large intestine stagnation, severed muscles and bones, qi and blood are not continuous, Xin can disperse stagnation, warm can pass qi and blood, and Xin and Wen are combined to kill insects, so they can search for the accumulation of strong winds in the hundred sections. Realgar fever is toxic, external use also sees its strengths, internal use is inevitably harmless, where in the bait, the disease is already, no end of the drug. "
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