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    This document provides notes on several Chinese medicinal substances, including their properties, indications, and dosages. Dragon's bone is described as neutral, sweet, and astringent, and is used to pacify the liver, anchor yang, calm the heart, and astringe sweating and emissions. Oyster shell is cool, salty, pacifies the liver, anchors yang, calms the heart, astringes sweating and emissions, and improves hearing and vision. Loadstone is cold, salty, and cools and directs qi downward. Cinnabar is noted as toxic and should not be used. Pearl sedates the heart, clears the liver, tranquilizes the mind, and promotes urination.

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    Settle & Calm Spirit: Robert Hayden, M.S.O.M. - Materia Medica Lecture Notes

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    Robert Hayden, M.S.O.M.

    - Materia Medica Lecture Notes

    Settle & Calm Spirit


    Dragon's bone Os draconis (Long gu) neutral, sweet, astringent ------Ht, Kd, Lr *Pacifies Lr, anchors yang: Should be cooked before adding dizziness, vertigo, blurred vision. other herbs. *Calms Ht: palpitations, insomnia. *Astringes leukorrhea, seminal emissions, sweating. *Topical: chronic sores. 15-30 g

    Oyster shell Concha Ostreae (Mu li)

    cool, salty ------Kd, Lr

    *Pacifies Lr, anchors yang: Contraindicated: hi fever w/o dizziness, vertigo, blurred vision. sweating. OD: indigestion, *Calms Ht: palpitations, insomnia. constipation. *Astringes leukorrhea, seminal emissions, sweating. *Softens, dissipates nodules. *Xs stomach acid. *Anchors & calms: restlessness, insomnia, palpitations, tremors, children's seizures d/t fright. *Improves hearing & vision. *Kd not grasping qi. *Sedates Ht: restlessness, palpitations, anxiety, seizures. *Topical: toxic swellings, snakebite.

    15-30 g

    Loadstone Magnetite (Ci shi)

    cold, salty, acrid ------Kd, Lr cool, sweet, toxic ------Kd, Lr cold, salty ----Ht, Lr

    Caution: weak Sp/St. Antagonizes 9-30 g Mudanpi. Decoct 20-30 min before adding other herbs.

    Cinnabar Cinnabaris (Zhu sha)

    Do not use, TOXIC, contains mercury.

    0.3-2.5 g pill or powder

    Pearl Margarita (Zhen zhu)

    *Sedates Ht: tremors, seizures, palpitations, frightens easily. *Clears Lr, brightens eyes: dim vision, red eyes, photophobia. *Topical: chronic sores. *Tranquilizes mind: infantile seizures, palpitations, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep. *Bl stasis menstrual problems. *Promotes urination: freq, painful, bloody urine or stones. *Pacifies Lr, anchors yang: dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus. *Strongly downbears qi: vomiting, belching, wheezing. *Vomiting blood, nosebleeds.

    Mother-of-pearl (Zhenzhumu): cold, sweet, salty. Pacifies Lr, anchors yang. Clears Lr, brightens eyes. 15-30g decoct first.

    0.3-0.9 g pills, powders, eyedrops

    Amber Succinum (Hu po)

    neutral, sweet ------Ht, Lr, UB

    Contraindicated in yin deficiency with heat

    0.9-3 g powder

    Hematite Red ochre Hematitum (Dai zhe shi)

    cold, bitter -------Lr, Ht, Pc

    Caution: pregnancy. Some samples 9-30 g contain arsenic salts.

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