Medicinal uses of quicklime

Quicklime is widely used in daily life, because whether in medicine, construction industry, or food industry, quicklime can play its unique role. The main function of quicklime in the food industry is to dehydrate and make a desiccant, which can effectively prevent food from getting damp. In addition, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, quicklime also has high medicinal value. Let’s talk about the medicinal use of quicklime.

The efficacy and function of lime

It can dry dampness, kill insects, stop bleeding, relieve pain, and corrode damaged flesh. Treat scabies, eczema, traumatic bleeding, burns from hot water or fire, hemorrhoids, rectal prolapse, and warts. Take internally to stop diarrhea, dysentery and metrorrhagia.

1. Ben Jing: "It is used to treat carbuncle, scabies, itching, heat sores, leprosy, dead skin and eyebrow loss, kill hemorrhoids, and remove black spots and polyps."

2. "Bie Lu": "Treats marrow and bone caries."

3. "Medicinal Properties" says: "It can treat scabies, erosion of flesh, and stop bleeding from wounds. It is very effective when mixed with chicken white and Baichuanru."

4. "Rihuazi Bencao": "It can promote the growth of flesh, stop bleeding, and cure vitiligo, ulcers, scars, etc. It can also cure cold, hemorrhoids, fistulas, carbuncle, goiter, warts. It can also cure postpartum inability to close the genitals, and can be fumigated and washed with a thick decoction. It can cure alcohol poisoning and warm the water organs."

5. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can disperse blood and relieve pain, stop water discharge and relieve blood and flesh, relieve leucorrhea and prolapse of the anus and vagina, eliminate accumulation and tuberculosis, drink it with your mouth, and your beard and hair will turn black."

6. "Yi Lin Zong Yao": "It can purge the heart and strengthen the kidney, break up blood stasis and attack accumulation, astringe the lungs and clear the lungs, kill insects and detoxify."

Medicinal value of lime

1. To treat abdominal and flank lumps: fry half a pound of weathered lime in a clay pot until very hot, add one ounce of rhubarb powder, fry until it turns red, then add half a ounce of cinnamon powder, burn it slightly, add rice vinegar and mix into a paste, spread on silk and apply it, take medicine to dissolve the lumps internally, it is very effective. (Danxi Heart Method)

2. To treat prickly heat and heat sores in summer: 1 (3) liang of kudzu powder, 1 liang of lime (slightly fried), 2 liang of licorice (ground into powder when used raw). Mix the above medicines, grind until evenly mixed, and apply with cotton. (Sheng Hui Fang)

3. To treat sudden rash: mix a certain amount of lime with vinegar water and apply it. ("Yuan Xisheng's Secret Prescription")

4. To treat traumatic bleeding: 2 liang of old lime, 2 qian of borneol, and 2 qian of alum (calcined). Fry lime until it turns yellow, add borneol and alum, grind into fine powder, sprinkle on the wound and bandage it. (Xuzhou City "Selection of New Medical Methods of Single Prescriptions")

5. To treat hemorrhoids, swelling and hardness around the anus, unbearable itching and pain: 3 liang of weathered lime, 3 liang of dahlia, 2 liang of black coal from the stove. Grind the above medicines into powder, divide them into two parts, stir-fry in a pot with a little vinegar, wait until it is slightly hot, wrap it in silk and press it, change it when it gets cold. (Sheng Hui Fang)

6. To treat long-term coldness and deficiency in the large intestine, caused by rectal prolapse and inability to defecate: boil lime until hot, wrap it with old silk, sit on it, and change it when it gets cold. (Sheng Hui Fang)

7. To treat hemiplegic pain: stir-fry old lime, gallnut, and gardenia in equal parts. Grind it into powder, mix with flour and vinegar and apply it on the affected area. (Summary of Medical Prescriptions)

8. To treat redness, swelling, chills and fever caused by phlegm nodules, similar to scrofula: calcine lime into powder, mix with ginkgo flesh and apply it to the affected area. You can also mix it with honey. (The Living Heart)

9. To treat carbuncle: three parts of lime and two parts of purslane. Mash the above two ingredients and mix with egg white and apply on the affected area. (Qianjin Fang)

10. To treat dysentery and blood that lasts for decades: fry three liters of lime until it turns yellow, stir with one dou of water to make it clear, take one liter at a time, three times a day. (Outside the stage)