[Source] Tang Herbal Medicine.

The original samples are calcareous bones secreted by corals, peach corals and other corals.

Functional indication

To improve your eyesight and calm your mind. Treat blindness, epilepsy and vomiting.

Sexual taste orientation

Tang Herbal Medicine: "Sweet in taste, flat in nature and non-toxic."

dosage

Oral administration: grinding into powder, 1-2 points. External use: grinding the final eye.

Protozoa peach coral, aquatic coelenterate, the population is dendritic. The branches are fan-shaped and fine, and there are many corals on the surface, which are called corals; This worm is hemispherical and has eight pinnate tentacles with a mouth in the center. This worm can secrete lime to form bones, commonly known as "coral". The surface of the skeleton is red and shiny. The central axis is white. Hard and beautiful.

Born on rocks at the bottom of the sea. Hydra often preys on microbial or biological fragments with tentacles. Sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction, and most of them are engaged in sexual reproduction. Division of Taiwan Province Province and South Coast.

Allocation of resources

Distributed in Taiwan Province Province and the southern coast. Location: Fujian, Taiwan Province, Guangdong and Xisha Islands.

medicinal material

A complete person is like a small tree. They are usually broken into short rods, 2-3 cm long and 3-5 mm in diameter. There are branches or small protrusions, and there are many small holes around them, red. Hard as porcelain, not easy to break. No taste. It is best to be red, heavy, crisp and strong inside and outside.

Use a net to hang down to the bottom of the sea for fishing. Most of them are extracted from the residues of handicrafts and used for medicine.

job operation

Cleaning, air drying, and grinding into fine powder.

Selected prescription

① Treatment of children's eye disorders: coral, finely ground into powder, each point is taken as big as millet, placed on glaze, and ordered once a day. ("Sheng Huifang" coral powder)

② Peeling: coral, shellfish, pearl, amber and stone crab. Extremely fine, the point is in the eye. (Classic of Materia Medica)

③ Treatment of unconsciousness, sudden attack, sudden collapse or palpitation: Red Coral, Amber and Pearl (finely ground) are one yuan each, while Ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala, Angelica sinensis and San Qian are bile stars (finely ground). And Deng Xin soup is adjusted to one yuan at a time. (Authentic Fang Mai)

(4) Treatment of heart and lung stagnation and vomiting: red coral, slowly ground into fine powder. Two servings at a time, and the lily is cooked into a paste and mixed. ("Peng Family Biography")

Examination certificate

From Tang Materia Medica 1 Materia Medica Yi Yan: "Coral, first-class red oil color, thin vertical stripes, lovely; Another color, such as lead, has no vertical stripes, which is the bottom. Those who use red oil as medicine. (2) Compendium: "Coral grows on the seabed, and five or seven plants form a forest, which is called coral forest. Red is the best; There are also blacks, which is not good; The blue one is also good. People used to call those people Green Lan Zhanshi. "

Chemical constituents of traditional Chinese medicine

Containing calcium carbonate, etc.

The basic body shape of coral is cylindrical or disc-shaped, which is radially symmetrical, and the center of the body is the inner cavity. The intestine plays the role of digestion and absorption. There is a mouth above the lumen, and the gap between the lumen and the mouth is called the oral passage. There are tentacles around the mouth, stinging silk sacs in the tentacles, and stinging silk cells containing venom in the sacs, which are weapons for animals to defend and prey, which is why coelenterates are also called the door of stinging animals.