Nicknames: Claw Armor, Human Retreat, Muscle Retreat
Harvesting and processing: Nails cut by healthy individuals
Medicinal part: Nail
Origin: National
Subject: Human Science
Original plant: human
Characteristics of human nail herb: This product has an irregular crescent shape, with varying sizes and widths. The surface is yellow white with white teeth, semi transparent, and smooth. There are fine vertical lines. Keratin, hard and tough, elastic, difficult to break. Mild aroma, sweet and salty taste.
The medicinal properties of human nails:
[Preparation] Wash with alkaline water or soapberry water and sun dry. Or stir fry together with talcum powder in the pot until the nails turn yellow and bulge to the point of fullness. Take out and sieve out the talcum powder, let it cool, and grind it into powder.
[Taste] Sweet taste; Salty; Sexual Peace
【 Indications and Functions 】 Hemostasis; diuresis; Go to the clouds. Main nosebleeds; Urine blood; Throat swelling and pain; Difficulty urinating; Visual impairment; tympanitis
【 Compound 】
① Treating women's unexplained hematuria: Claw nails, messy hair. Add two flavors, grind them into powder, divide them equally, and drink the wine in a square inch knife every three days. (From "Qian Jin Fang")
② Treating Milk Moth: No matter how much claw armor is used (calcined to powder), one coin each for Peng Sha and Bai Fan, one cent for Xi Niu Huang, and five pieces each for Wu Mei and Bai Mei meat. Mashed like mud, containing one large pill, phlegm and fire gushed out, (continued) three or four pills (times). (This Classic Meets the Original)
③ Treatment of eyeball growth: Hand claw nail (burnt ash), shell teeth (burnt ash), dragon bone each half two, apply medicine, grind the same order very finely, each use a small amount, dot the eyeball tube, three or four degrees a day. (Shenghui Fang "Beici San)
④ To treat tetanus, those who can't stop fighting with their hands and feet: six coins for burning off the nails of human hands and feet, two coins each for cinnabar (a type of tea), southern star (made of ginger), and Duhuo (peeled). Above is fine powder. Divide it into three parts, mix the wine and drink it. (Pope Francis)
⑤ Treating bloating in the lower abdomen: Burn nail polish and drink it from the nipple. (From "Qian Jin Fang")
⑥ Treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media: Use a small amount of artificial nails (calcined) and ice flakes. Grind them into fine powder together. Before use, clean the ear canal first, and then blow the powder. (Compilation of Simplified Prescriptions for Herbal Medicine)
【 Discussions from Various Schools 】
1. "Collection of Materia Medica": Take the finest details and place them in the center to remove any obstructions.
2. "Ben Cao Yan Yi": To treat nosebleeds, scrape it carefully, wait for the blood to settle slightly, remove the blood stasis, and twitch it in the nose.
3. "Gangmu": Treating stroke caused by injuries.
【 Clinical Application 】 Used for treating chicken claw wind. This disease is similar to what modern medicine calls hand foot twitching syndrome, mostly caused by a decrease in blood calcium, and is common in postpartum breastfeeding women or infants. Take 2 coins of human nails, wash them thoroughly, bake them on a tile, grind them finely, and give 2 liang of yellow wine as a gift. If necessary, take it again.