China Pharmacopoeia: Sulfur
Pinyin name Liu Hu á n ɡ
English name sulfur
Alias sulfur, yellow teeth and natural yellow
Source: This product is natural element mineral sulfur, which is heated and melted after excavation to remove impurities. Or processed with sulfur-containing minerals.
Features this product is irregular block. Yellow or greenish yellow. The surface is uneven, greasy and shiny, and there are often many small holes. Hold it tightly with your hand and put it next to your ear. You can smell a slight crack. It is light, loose and fragile, and its cross section is often needle-like crystal. It has a special smell and a faint taste.
Identification: This product is easy to melt when burning, with blue flame and pungent smell of sulfur dioxide.
Sulfur processing: removing impurities and crushing into blocks.
Sulfur production: take clean sulfur blocks and cook them with tofu. When the tofu turns dark green, take them out, rinse them and dry them in the shade. Every 100kg of sulfur, 200kg of tofu.
Property acid temperature; Toxic.
Meridian, kidney meridian, large intestine meridian.
Function is mainly used for external use to detoxify, kill insects and treat sores; Oral administration can tonify fire and help yang to relax bowels. External use to treat scabies, baldness, gangrene and malignant sores; Oral administration is used for impotence, cold feet, asthenic asthma, cold asthma and constipation.
Usage and dosage: appropriate amount for external use, ground and applied to the affected area. Oral 1.5 ~ 3g, processed and taken by pill.
Pay attention to pregnant women with caution.
Store in a dry place to prevent fire.
Remarks: (1) Natural yellow is natural sublimated sulfur. Irregular sand-like crystals or particles of different sizes, yellow-green, slightly glassy. The quality is purer than sulfur, and the taste, function and indications are similar to sulfur.
Excerpt from China Pharmacopoeia