Alias: Stone sulfur yellow, natural sulfur
Harvesting and processing: After extracting natural sulfur, it is heated and melted to remove impurities, or processed from sulfur-containing ores.
Medicinal parts: All
Origin: Natural sulfur from Taiwan Province and Shanxi, Xinjiang, Shandong, Jiangsu, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, etc
Science: Sulfur minerals
Original plant: natural sulfur
Plant condition: sulfur-containing
Natural sulfur, also known as oblique sulfur. The crystal structure belongs to the rhombohedral system. The crystals are cone-shaped, plate-like, plate-like, or needle columnar, and the aggregates are dense or loose blocks, or soil like blocks, shells, membranes, etc. that are spring like and cryptocrystalline. Yellow, honey yellow or brown yellow; Due to impurities, they can have shades of gray, black, green, or red.
Stripes are white to pale yellow in color. Crystal surface with diamond luster, fracture surface with resin or oily luster. Near transparent to semi transparent. Splitting multiple groups, incomplete. The dense block has a shell like to uneven fracture surface. Hardness 1-2. Relative density is 2.05-2.08.
Brittle and fragile in nature; Heating can easily cause cracks. There is a sulfur odor. When heated to 270 ℃, it ignites with a blue flame and emits a pungent odor. Easy to dissolve in carbon disulfide, turpentine, kerosene, but insoluble in water, hydrochloric acid, and sulfuric acid; When exposed to strong nitric acid and aqua regia, it is oxidized to sulfuric acid.
Natural sulfur is mainly formed by volcanic eruptions, and volcanic sulfur contains small amounts of arsenic, selenium, zinc, and thallium. Natural sulfur containing mechanical mixtures such as clay, organic matter, asphalt, etc. in sedimentary rocks or weathered zones.
Characteristics of sulfur medicinal materials: Sulfur appears as irregular blocks and coarse particles. Light yellow, yellow or slightly greenish yellow. Stripes are white or pale yellow. The surface is uneven or rough, often with many small pores. Fat luster. Lightweight, brittle in texture, easy to smash. Some sections are honeycomb shaped, with fine columns or needle shaped crystals visible in the longitudinal plane, arranged almost parallel, and have a diamond-like luster. It has a unique odor and a mild taste.
High quality products are best if they are neat, yellow in color, glossy, crisp in texture, and free of impurities.
Sulfur properties:
The middle grade stone sulfur yellow in this sutra has a sour and warm taste. Housewives are prone to vaginal erosion, hemorrhoids, and malignant blood. They can strengthen their muscles and bones, remove baldness, and transform strange things such as gold, silver, copper, and iron
Sour taste, warm nature, enters the Foot Taiyin Spleen, Hand Taiyin Lung, Foot Shaoyin Kidney, Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian. Drive away cold and dampness, replenish fire and strengthen yang.
Stone sulfur yellow warms dry soil and water, drives away dampness and coldness, and treats symptoms such as cough, vomiting, diarrhea, bloody stools, cold air and coldness, lower back and knee pain, erectile dysfunction, smooth semen, carbuncles, hemorrhoids, fistulas, scabies, and baldness. Apply to female genital ulcers, wash jade gate wide and cold, apply to genital warts, and eliminate stubborn sores caused by pterygium. Put the rice bran into the grapes, simmer it over high heat, remove its unpleasant odor, and grind it finely. Removing stones can convert sulfur into water. Put it in a bamboo tube, bury it in horse manure, and it becomes water in a month, called sulfur solution.
【 Origin 】 Volcanic region.
[Taste] Sour taste, warm nature, toxic.
【 Indications 】 Sulfur is a necessary medicine for tonifying yang. It is mainly used for treating spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, cold stagnation and cold obsession, weakened vital energy, sweating to dispel cold phlegm, and to relieve colon inflammation. It is also used for treating constipation, killing insects, and treating sores and scabies.
【 Additional Record 】 Treat the accumulation of heart and abdomen, cold and painful evil qi in the lower abdomen, cough and reflux of qi, weak and weak foot pain, as well as nosebleeds, lower genital insect sores, stop bleeding and kill scabies.
[Zhen Quan] Lower Qi, treat chronic cold in the waist and kidneys, eliminate cold wind and stubborn numbness, cold and heat, use raw materials to treat scabies, refine and take the main body for deficiency and loss of essence.
In the Ming Dynasty, the path of strengthening yang is to replenish the fatigue of essence and bones, relieve wind and qi, stop coughing, and kill dirty insects and evil spirits.
Wu Pu treats women's blood stasis.
[Li Xun] Long skin, Qi boosting power, elderly temperament, and suitable for exercise.
Rongchuan is a fire that can be ignited in water. Its sour taste is due to the wood flavor, and the yang in water is caused by wood. Therefore, it has a sour taste and can be ignited. It is also the wood in water, and is a powerful medicine for warming the liver and kidneys.
【 Spiritual Embryo 】 Drive away cold and dampness. Insecticidal gold.
[Dosage] Regular five to two yuan.
[Taboo] Sulfur is a miraculous medicine for emergency treatment, but it should not be used completely when dealing with illnesses. It is feared that Xixin can be easily eliminated, and sulfur is toxic. It can be dissolved in black lead decoction or by eating duck meat.
[Processing] Sulfur: Remove impurities and crush into small pieces.
Sulfur production: Take clean sulfur blocks and boil them together with tofu until the tofu turns black green. Remove, rinse, and dry in the shade. For every 100kg of sulfur, use 200kg of tofu.
[Taste] Sour, warm; Toxic.
Return to the Kidney and Large Intestine Meridians.
【 Functions and Indications 】 External detoxification, insecticidal treatment for sores; Taking it internally to replenish heat and promote bowel movements. External treatment is used for scabies, baldness, and genital ulcers; Oral administration is used for erectile dysfunction, foot cold, deficiency asthma, cold wheezing, and deficiency cold constipation.
【 Usage and Dosage 】 Apply an appropriate amount topically, grind and mix with oil, and apply to the affected area. Take 1.5-3g orally, and after processing, take it in pills and powder.
【 Attention 】 Pregnant women should take it with caution.
【 Storage 】 Store in a dry place and prevent fire.
【 Note 】 (1) Natural yellow is naturally sublimated sulfur. Irregular sand like crystals or granules of varying sizes, yellow green in color, with a slight glassy luster. The quality is purer than sulfur, and its properties, taste, functions, and indications are similar to sulfur.
[Attention] This product is toxic and should be taken orally. It should not be taken excessively or for a long time. Patients with yin deficiency and excessive fire, as well as pregnant women, are prohibited from using it. Drinking duck soup can dissolve it.
1. Xu Zhicai's "Medicine Pair": "Fear Xixin, Feilian, Puxiao, Tie, and Vinegar." (quoted from "Gangmu")
The middle illness should be treated promptly and not completely treated
Long term use can damage yin and the large intestine, often leading to rectal bleeding. It is contraindicated for those with excessive heat and evil. Damp heat and impotence are not suitable for good
4. "De Pei Ben Cao": "Avoid poultry and animal blood." "Prohibited for those with yin deficiency." 5. "Research on the Usage of Ben Cao": "Do not use for those with yin deficiency and fire." "Prohibited for those with external sores, redness and swelling, and those with internal heat and constipation
【 Discussions from Various Schools 】
1. "Wu Pu Bencao": "It can be produced in Yiyang, Hexi, or in five colors. Yellow is the liquid of Panshui stone, and it is burned with purple flames. It is harvested in August and September
Sulfur grows in the shepherd valleys of the East China Sea, as well as in the mountains of Taishan and Hexi, and in the liquid of bauxite
3. Annotations on the Compendium of Materia Medica: "This cloud contains bauxite liquid, but there is no bauxite in the south today, so there may be no need for it
4. "Herbal Medicine of the Sea": "The immortal formula is called yellow sand, which can damage hardware and create gold. People can subdue it and return to its original color. When taken, it can cure ten thousand diseases. If activated, it is recommended to use pork duck soup and residual sweet seed soup to dissolve it. It also originated from Yazhou in Shu, with excellent light and oil properties, but its skill is not as good as that of those who came from abroad
5. "Dan Fang Jing Yuan": "Stone sulfur yellow can dry mercury. The formula is: This sulfur yellow will turn black when exposed to metal, and turn red when exposed to mercury. It is also known as yellow teeth
6. "Gangmu": "Wherever sulfur yellow is produced, there must be hot springs to produce sulfur gas." The Book of Wei "says:" There are volcanoes that are as pleasant as pleasure, and the stones next to the mountains are all melted. The flowing earth is hardened for dozens of miles, which is called sulfur yellow. "Zhang Hua's" Records of Natural History "says:" Sulfur in the Western Regions comes from the mountains. If you go to Gaochang for 800 miles, there are mountains that are tens of zhang high. During the day, the holes are like smoke, and at night, they are like lights. "" It is also said that those with strong bones and bones are taken to treat the cold and dampness in the lower part“