What are the effects and functions of Yangqishi (Actinolite)?
Yangqishi is a silicate mineral of the amphibole group, consisting of tremolite and its variety tremolite asbestos, and is distributed in Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Hubei and other places. When used as medicine, it has the effect of warming the kidney and strengthening yang, and has a therapeutic effect on conditions such as decline of kidney yang, cold and painful waist and knees, male impotence and spermatorrhea, cold uterus and infertility in women, abnormal uterine bleeding, and abdominal masses. Let us take a look at the effects and functions of Yangqishi below!
The medicinal effects of Yangqishi
[Nature and flavor] Salty in flavor, warm in nature.
[Meridians entered] Kidney meridian.
[Effects] Warms the kidney and strengthens yang; mainly treats decline of kidney yang, cold and painful waist and knees, male impotence and spermatorrhea, cold uterus and infertility in women, abnormal uterine bleeding, and abdominal masses.
Related discussions on Yangqishi
1. "Shennong Bencao Jing": Mainly treats flooding and spotting, breaks up blood in the uterus, abdominal masses and accumulated qi, cold-heat abdominal pain, impotence, and supplements insufficiency.
2. "Bielu": Treats cold at the glans in men, damp itching below the genitals, removes foul sweat, and reduces edema.
3. "Yaoxing Lun": Tonifies kidney qi and essence deficiency, waist pain and cold knees, damp impediment; can warm a woman's uterus that has been cold for a long time, cold patterns and cold abdominal masses, and stops irregular menstruation.
Medicinal contraindications of Yangqishi
1. "Bencao Jing Jizhu": The mantis egg-case serves as its guide. It is antagonistic to Alisma, cinnamon, Omphalia, and snake slough. It is incompatible with dodder.
2. "Yaoxing Lun": Antagonistic to sunflower. Avoid sheep blood.
3. "Bencao Jingshu": Those with yin deficiency and hyperactive fire should avoid it. Impotence that belongs to loss of will, resulting in fire qi being blocked and unable to be released, as well as flooding and vaginal discharge caused by excess fire rather than deficiency cold, must not be taken.
4. "Bencao Huiyan": Those with yin deficiency and blood heat should not take it.
Medicinal selected formulas of Yangqishi
1. To treat deficiency cold of primordial qi, uncontrollable spermatorrhea, loose stools, and cold limbs: Yangqishi (calcined, ground extremely fine) and stalactite powder in equal parts. Grind together into a fine powder, cook aconite powder in wine to make a paste and form pills the size of parasol tree seeds. Take fifty pills each time, swallowed with rice water on an empty stomach.
2. To treat impotence and genital sweating: Yangqishi (calcined, made into powder), take two qian each time, taken with salt wine.
3. To treat non-interaction of the Chong and Ren meridians, extreme deficiency cold, incessant flooding, and resulting other patterns: Yangqishi (calcined red in fire, separately ground extremely fine) 2 liang, deer antler velvet (dehaired, vinegar-roasted) 1 liang. Grind the above into a fine powder, fry mugwort juice in vinegar, mix with glutinous rice to form pills the size of parasol tree seeds. Take one hundred pills each time, taken with rice water before meals on an empty stomach.
4. To treat erysipelas: Yangqishi (burned, ground into powder), mix with fresh water and apply to the swollen area.
5. To treat erysipelas with swelling and itching: Calcine Yangqishi, grind fine, mix with clear water and apply.
6. Spermatorrhea (deficiency cold of primordial qi, uncontrollable spermatorrhea, hands and feet often cold, loose stools): Calcine Yangqishi, grind fine, add an equal part of stalactite powder, then add aconite powder cooked in wine, mix with a little flour to form the medicine into pills the size of parasol tree seeds. Take fifty pills each time, taken on an empty stomach with rice water. Continue until the illness is cured.
7. Impotence and genital sweating: Calcine Yangqishi and grind fine, take two qian each time, taken with salt wine.