Shen Nong's Materia Medica

Chapter 7 Zhongpin (2)

Antler
The smell is sweet, warm and non-toxic.The main leakage of bad blood, cold and heat, convulsions and epilepsy, replenishing qi, strengthening will, and immortality.

Chen Xiuyuan said: Deer are immortal animals and live a long life. When lying down, their mouths and noses face their tails to connect the Governor Vessel.When the kidney is supplemented, the will will be strong and the teeth will be solid, and the will will be stored in the kidney, and the teeth will be the rest of the bones.When the governor gets its supplement, the air will be elevated, and the bad blood will not leak out, and the governor channel is the governor of yang energy.However, the horns are all pierced by blood, rushing into a sea of ​​blood, which can be seen to supplement the Chongmai.All convulsions and epilepsy are caused by the Chongmai, and the deficiency of yin and qi cannot be peaceful in the interior, so it is attached to yang and rises, so the upper part is hot and the lower part is cold.If Yang Qi is deficient and cannot protect the body, it sinks with Yin, so the lower part is hot and the upper part is cold; deer antler enters the Chong Meridian and nourishes the blood, so it can cure cold, heat and convulsions.As for the long horns, "Bie Lu" says that it can control malignant sores and expel evil spirits.With a little embryonic blood, the vent has been exhausted, and the only thing that can be done is to dissipate the poison.

turtle shell
The smell is sour, flat and non-toxic.Main trusted subordinate's lump in the abdomen, firm accumulation of cold and heat, removes lump disease, erosive flesh, yin erosion, hemorrhoids evil flesh.

[Description] The qi of the turtle shell is calm, and the golden qi enters the lungs; the taste is salty and non-toxic, and the taste of water enters the kidneys.The confidant is also concerned with the big belly and the lower abdomen of the heart, as well as the side ribs.Accumulation of hardness in the abdominal mass causes chills and heat, which is the condensation of liver qi of Jueyin; the qi of turtle shell can control the liver, and the salty taste can soften the firmness, so it is the main cause.People with ruffian have stagnation of liver qi, and Xianping can control the liver and make it soft and firm, so it also dominates it.Eroded meat, yin erosion, and hemorrhoids, the evil meat is born in the nose, and the nose is the orifice of the lung;

White Bombyx mori

The smell is salty, flat, pungent, non-toxic.It is mainly used to treat infantile convulsions, epilepsy and night crying, remove three insects, eliminate blackness, make people look good, and men's pruritus. (Any medicine with golden complexion and white color should not be fried.) [Remark] The silkworm's air is flat, which is autumn air, and its pungent taste is golden, and its salty taste is water, which is the essence of golden water.For convulsive epilepsy, gold can flatten wood.To cure night crying, the metal stems and dominates the sky, the fortune of the sky rotates, and it opens during the day and closes at night.Those who kill the three worms, the worms are transformed by wind and wood, the gold master kills them, and those who kill blackness and make people look good are nourished by water.To treat men's vulva itching, gold can control wind, and salt can relieve itching.

Xu Lingtai said, silkworms feel stiff due to the wind, and all diseases caused by the wind can be cured, because they use the wind to sense each other.

Or ask: Because the wind is stiff, how can it cure the wind?Said: People among evils also have energy but are invisible. They penetrate the meridians and collaterals, and the longer they last, the deeper they become.

If you throw medicines with opposite qi types, you will refuse to enter them, and those who must be of the same kind will be mixed with other medicines, so that they can be used as a sound guide, and the medicine will reach the affected area.

And the evil and the medicine go hand in hand, and the property of the medicine gradually develops, or it comes out from the pores, or it comes out from the stool, and it can't stay.This is the law of governance.Wind, cold and heat are all the same.This way of being enlightened by the gods does not rely solely on positive governance to achieve merit.

蚱蝉
(The ancients used cicadas, but today people use sloughs, and the aura is similar.) The smell is cold and salty.Mainly for children with convulsions, epilepsy, night cry, epilepsy, cold and fever.

Chen Xiuyuan said: Grasshoppers are cold and endowed with water qi, and their taste is salty to get the taste of water, but if they feel the air of cool wind and clear dew to live, they can get the most complete golden qi.

Its master children with convulsions and epilepsy, Jin Neng Pingmu also.Grasshopper cicadas make sounds at sunrise and silent at sunset, so they stop crying at night.Those with epilepsy, cold and fever have wind and fire in the liver and gallbladder. Grasshoppers have the air of gold and water. Metal can control wind, and water can control fire, so it dominates.

Zhang Yin'an said: "Cicadas and silkworms are all endowed with the essence of golden water, so the indications in the "Ben Jing" are generally the same."But cicadas drink but don't eat, drown but don't dung; nibble but don't drink, dung but don't drown, why are they the same?The scriptures say: "Drink into the stomach... and go up to the lungs...." The grain enters the stomach, and it passes to the lungs.Although the diet is different, it is all controlled by the lung qi, and the urine and feces are different, but they are all transmitted by the lung qi.

Gypsum smells pungent, slightly cold, non-toxic.It is mainly used for apoplexy, cold and heat, convulsions in the heart, convulsions, dry mouth and tongue, inability to breathe, abdominal pain, expulsion of evil spirits, milk production, and gold sores.

Chen Xiuyuan said: The air of gypsum is slightly cold, with the air of cold water from the sun; the taste is pungent and non-toxic, and it has the taste of yangming and dry gold.Wind is yang evil, in the sun, aversion to cold and fever, but it must be checked if it is sweatless, irritated and short of breath, it can be used together with Ma Gui For spontaneous perspiration, it can be used together with Zhimu.It is said that the qi in the heart is inverse, that is, "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", the interchange word of qi inverse and wanting to vomit; "Can't stop", that is, the alternate word in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" that is weak and lacking qi; however, it must be judged that it is a person with internal qi deficiency and internal heat after the solution, It can be used with ginseng, bamboo leaves, Pinellia, Ophiopogon japonicus, licorice, and japonica rice.Stomach pain in the abdomen, Yangming dryness and even firmness, will lead to the symptoms of indigestion due to an excess stomach.Evil ghosts, Yangming evil reality, false speech and wrong views, or shock for no reason, if evil ghosts are possessed, the plaster clears the heat of Yangming, and can rule them.Yangming's festering also.However, when a stone is exposed to fire, it becomes a wrought stone. Today, if people are afraid of its cold and use it, it will lose its original nature.

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