Talcum
(hua shi fen)
Talcum
Properties:
The drug is sweet and tasteless in flavour, cold in
nature, and acts on the stomach and urinary bladder
channels. Being sweet and tasteless for inducing diuresis
and excreting dampness, cold for clearing fever, and
lubrication for clearing obstruction, talc mainly clears
pathogenic damp-heat in the urinary bladder to induce
diuresis, treat stranguria, remove urinary calculus and
alleviate pain. It is often used to treat stranguria due
to heat, and stranguria caused by urinary stone. Being
sweet and cold for clearing heat and inducing diuresis, it
can also relieve summer heat and thirst.
Effects:
Treating stranguria,
removing urinary calculus, clearing fever and summer heat.
Indications:
1. The drug is often used in
combination with manshurian aristolochia stem, plantain
seed and other herbs for inducing diuresis and treating
stranguria, to treat damp-heat in the urinary bladder and
dribbling urination with pain; and with climbing fern,
lysimachia and other herbs for treating stranguria,
softening lumps and removing urinary calculus, such as
Erjin Paishi Decoction, to treat stranguria caused by
urinary stone.
2. It is often used in combination
with liquorice for clearing summer heat, relieving
vexation, inducing diuresis and treating stranguria, such
as Liuyi Powder, to treat summer heat due to exopathy,
vexation, thirst and scanty dark urine; and with plantain
seed, white hyacinth dolichos bean and other drugs for
removing dampness and arresting diarrhea, to treat
diarrhea due to summer heat.
In addition, to treat damp sore and
eczema, talc can often be used in combination with dried
alum, phellodendron bark and other drugs for eliminating
dampness and relieving itching, ground into powder for
external use.
Dosage and Administration:
10-15g.
Wrapped in gauze and decocted in water, for external use
in appropriate amount.
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