Dragon bone was first found in the Divine Husbandman’s Classic of the Materia Medica and is classified as a superior product. It is sweet, astringent, flat, non-toxic and enters the heart, liver, kidney and large intestine meridians. It enters the heart, liver, kidney and large intestine meridians, and is used to treat heart and abdominal dementia, coughing and rebellion. It is used for diarrhea and abscesses, women’s leakage, hardening of mass in the abdomen, and children’s epilepsy with heat and fright. Astringency can be removed, and the Dragon Bone enters the Liver to astring the spirit and converge the floating Qi. It treats coughs and rebelliousness, diarrhea and dysentery with abscess and blood, women’s leaking, taking astringency to solidify the upper and lower qi and blood. Although astringent in nature, it can enter the liver and break knots.
Prescription written in the Dragon Bone refers to the raw Dragon Bone, for the original herbs to wash and dry, crushed into the medicine. It is partial to pacify the Liver and subdue Yang, and calm the nerves. Calcined Dragon Bone for the net dragon bones put on smokeless fire calcined red through, take off to cool, crushed into the medicine. Prefers to close astringency. Dragon bones are often used to treat insomnia and dreams, spermatorrhea, calming the spirit of peace of mind.
The ancients believed that dragon bones were the bones of the dragon, which were found in “the place where the dragon transformed into liberation”. It was believed that dragons were the longest of scale insects, and the bones of the dead or molted dragons were considered to be dragon bones, and the bones were classified as top quality. Modern scientific research on the Taoist producing areas of the Dragon Bone has revealed that the Dragon Bone in Chinese medicine actually refers to the fossilized bones of ancient mammals such as three-toed horses, rhinoceroses, deer, cattle and elephants or the fossilized incisor teeth of elephants. It is mainly produced in Tertiary sedimentary rocks such as mudstone, siltstone and Quaternary sediments of the Miocene from about 24 million to 5.2 million years ago.
The quality of this product is heavy, and Chinese medicine believes that the quality of heavy is sinking, only wind above the summit can be to the wind sinking down the dizziness disappears, has a strong role in pacifying the liver and latent Yang, can be used to treat dizziness, irritability, ejaculation, urination, frequent urination, collapse with the next, sweating, these are body fluids out. Dragon bones belong to the pore drug, according to Chinese medicine, it is considered to have adsorption, astringent and astringent effect, can be enhanced by different preparations. Dragon bone contains a large amount of calcium ions, which can promote blood coagulation, and can reduce skeletal muscle excitability, with anticonvulsant effect.
In clinical application, it can be used with ephedra root to astring fluids and stop sweating. It can be used in all cases of night sweating and spontaneous sweating caused by disharmony between Ying and Wei, imbalance of qi and blood, and disorders of organs’ functions. It can also be used with oysters, dragon bones can be submerged in the yin of the floating yang, oysters can be taken in the yin of the sinking yang. The two drugs must often be used together, nourishing yin and latent yang, calming the nerves, softening and dissipating knots, astringent essence, stop bleeding, vesicant function. It can also be used with cuttlebone, which specializes in tonifying the kidneys and aiding yang, consolidating essence and shrinking urine; Dragon Bone is good at astringing vital energy, solid and astringent slippage. In the case of kidney deficiency and slippage, if you use cuttlebone alone, the astringent force is weaker than the tonifying force, while if you use cuttlebone alone, the astringent force is there but not the kidney. Only the two are paired and used together, which can greatly enhance the tonifying power of the kidneys, and is suitable for kidney yang deficiency, kidney failure, premature ejaculation, urination, white cloud, frequent urination and other certificates. The pungent and warming properties of Gui Zhi enable Yin and Yang energy to flow through the Middle Earth, tonifying Heart-Yang and calming the mind. The Dragon Bone calms the heart and the mind, while the Dragon Bone calms the mind and the mind, and the Dragon Bone calms the mind and the mind, and the Dragon Bone calms the mind and the mind, and the Dragon Bone calms the mind and the mind.
Dragon bones are indeed fossils, and fossils contain a great deal of paleontological information. China has made a series of protections for paleontological fossils, and the pharmacopoeia has not included the Dragon Bone since the 1977 edition, and it is only found in some local concoction specifications. Modern pharmacology is also investigating what substances could replace the keel.
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