How much does pangolin scale powder of the Manidae family cost per gram? What are its effects and functions? How much is appropriate to take at one time?
The pangolin can be said to be a treasure all over, especially its scales, which can be ground into powder for medicinal use, and have the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, promoting milk secretion, and sobering up. Therefore, it has relatively high value, but because the pangolin is rare in China, the price is very expensive. So how much does pangolin powder cost per gram? What are its effects and functions? How much is appropriate to take at one time?
Pangolin powder price:
The lowest-grade pangolin costs about eight yuan per gram. For superior grades, the price is even higher; 100 grams costs several thousand yuan if not tens of thousands, so it is very expensive.
Effects and functions:
Pangolin powder promotes blood circulation, reduces abscesses and discharges pus, expels wind and activates collaterals, and unblocks menstruation and promotes lactation. It mainly treats carbuncles and gangrene, sores and swellings with toxin, wind-cold-damp impediment, blood stasis amenorrhea, abdominal masses and accumulations, and obstructed lactation.
1. Pangolin powder is used for blood-stagnation amenorrhea, abdominal masses and lumps, wind-damp impediment pain, and tendon and vessel contracture. Pangolin is good at moving and scurrying, and its nature is specifically to disperse, and it can promote blood circulation, dissipate stasis, and free the meridians and collaterals, so it can be used to treat the aforementioned conditions.
2. Pangolin powder is used for early-stage abscess swelling or when pus has formed but has not yet ruptured. Pangolin has the effect of reducing swelling and discharging pus, and can make abscess swellings that have not yet formed pus disappear, and those that have already suppurated rupture quickly. In clinical practice, it is often used together with spina gleditsiae, frankincense, myrrh, honeysuckle, and the like.
3. Pangolin powder is used for obstructed lactation. Pangolin has a relatively good effect of unblocking and promoting lactation. For postpartum obstructed lactation, it can be ground into powder alone and taken with yellow rice wine. To enhance the lactation-promoting effect, it is mostly combined with Vaccaria seed; if there is postpartum deficiency of both qi and blood with scant milk, it can be used together with qi-benefiting and blood-nourishing drugs such as astragalus and angelica.
4. Pangolin powder can promote blood circulation and reduce abscesses, reduce swelling and discharge pus, and can cause abscesses that have not yet formed pus to disperse and those that have already formed pus to rupture quickly, making it an important drug for treating sores and swellings. For early-stage sores and abscesses, it is often combined with honeysuckle, trichosanthes root, and spina gleditsiae to clear heat and detoxify and to promote blood circulation and reduce abscesses, as in Xianfang Huoming Yin from the Jiaozhu Furen Daquan Liangfang; to treat sores and abscesses with pus formed but not yet ruptured, it is combined with astragalus, angelica, and spina gleditsiae to expel toxin and discharge pus, as in Tounong San from the Waike Zhengzong; to treat scrofula, it can be combined with Prunella vulgaris, fritillary, and scrophularia to dissipate nodules and reduce scrofula.
Contraindications:
If a woman is pregnant, she is not suitable to take pangolin. At the same time, people with weak qi and blood and those whose carbuncles and gangrene have already ruptured are likewise not suitable to come into contact with this medicinal material, otherwise the disease not only will not recover but will become even more serious. The Bencao Jingshu also records that people whose smallpox sores have insufficient primordial qi and cannot erupt should not use pangolin, otherwise the problem will worsen.
How much is good to take at one time?
Pangolin powder is a drug for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Anti-inflammatory drugs are generally taken orally 2 times, and about 3g-6g each time is sufficient.