Tabasheer
(tian zhu huang)
Concretio
Silicea Bambusae
Properties:
It is sweet in flavour and cold in nature. It is tropistic
to the heart, liver, gallbladder channels. Its main
effects are clearing heart and liver heat, resolving
phlegm and arresting convulsion. It is mainly indicated
accumulation of phlegm-heat, infantile convulsion, aphasia
from stroke, and other syndromes. It is a common drug in
pediatrics.
Effects:
Removing heat, phlegm, and liver-heat and arresting
convulsion.
Indications:
1. For treatment of infantile
accumulation of heat-phlegm, convulsion caused by high
fever, it is used together with Arisaema cum Bile,
Calculus Bovis, cinnabaris, Muschus, and other drugs with
the functions of clearing away heat and phlegm,
resuscitating, calming the endogenous wind, such as
Niuhuang Baolong Wan. For treatment of infantile cough due
to phlegm-heat, dyspnea with phlegm stridor, it can be
used in combination with Rhizoma Coptidis, Bombyx,
Batryticatus, Indigo Naturalis, and other drugs.
2. For treatment of apoplexy due to
phlegm-heat, aphasia and hemiparalysis, unconsciousness,
it is usually used together with Fructus Trichosanthis,
Arisaema cum Bile, Radix Curcumae, and other drugs with
the effects of removing heat-phlegm, resuscitating,
calming the endogenous wind.
Dosage and Administration: 3-10g
with powder dosage form, 0.6-1g every time.
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