Gesso
September 4, 2008 by subarc
Name: Gesso
Category: Antipyretic
Phoneticize: SHIGAO
Latin: GypsumFibrosum
Alias: Fine manage stone, soft gesso, Bai Hu
Officinal place: Sulfate kind mineral
Medicinal material character: This tasting for fibroid aggregate, show long lump, board lump or irregular lump. White, hoar or flaxen, some is translucent. Weight, qualitative soft, vertical section provides burnish of spun silk appearance. Without smelly, flavour is weak.
Producing area: Hubei, Gansu Province, Sichuan
Collect receive treatment: Annual all can be collected dig. Collect after digging, eliminate silt reachs miscellaneous stone.
Pure evolution:
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Sexual flavour returns classics: Great Cold; Laborious, pleasant; Put in classics of lung, stomach ’s charge
Function advocate treat: Qing Dynasty heats up have diarrhoea fire, except irritated stop thirsty. Use at diseases caused by external factors pyretic, high fever irritated thirsty, lung heats up asthma to cough, gastric fire excessive is filled, toothache.
Usage dosage: To be taken orally: Decoct soup, 15 ～ 60g (large dose 150 ～ 240g) , break into pieces first decoct; Or enter bolus, medicinal powder. External use: Right amount, forge grinds delicate last stage, scatter or move apply.
No-no: Xu Han card is banned take, taste is frail the person that reach deficiency of blood and pathological changes caused by it, deficiency of yin with irritability to give out heat careful take.
