What are the effects of traditional Chinese medicine sulfur paste

Sulfur ointment is a relatively common Chinese medicine. It is made by extracting and refining natural sulfur ore. It has the effect of promoting yang and relieving constipation when taken internally, and has a good bactericidal and detoxifying effect when used externally. It can treat scabies and stubborn psoriasis. It can treat the symptoms of eczema and itching. For men, sulfur ointment can also prevent kidney deficiency and improve male sexual function.

1. Scabies, stubborn ringworm, eczema and phlegm itching

This product is warm and toxic. It can disperse and penetrate. It is good at drying out toxins in the skin, unblocking the meridians to dispel wind, attacking toxins, dispersing knots and killing insects. It can dispel wind evil, dry out dampness and toxins, kill scabies and treat stubborn ringworms. "Bencao Qiuzhen" says that it can kill sores, scabies, all insects and poisons, and is an excellent product for external use in dermatology.

2. Ulcers and Carbuncles

Sulfur is warm and toxic. The acid can astringe, while the warmth can disperse evil. It can fight poison with poison, heal sores, eliminate carbuncles and disperse nodules. Therefore, it is often used to treat sores, carbuncles and swellings.

It is used to treat internal toxic heat, stagnation of qi and blood, aversion to cold, high fever, redness, swelling, burning pain and sores. For example, the recipe for treating carbuncle on the back in "Renzai Zhizhi Fang" uses this product together with sweet and cool buckwheat to treat yang deficiency, cold stagnation without pus, or stubborn sores with broken skin and oozing wetness. "Surgery Authentic" Zhenjun Miaotie Powder can also be used with wood products, buckwheat flour or white flour for application.

3. Kidney deficiency, cold asthma, impotence and cold semen

Sulfur is called fire essence, which is a pure yang product. It is very hot in nature and enters the kidney meridian. It can greatly replenish the true fire of the Mingmen and help the Yuanyang. Therefore, "Bencao Qiuzhen" says: "If the fire of the Mingmen is weak and taking Fu and Gui cannot replenish it, you must take sulfur to replenish it. It is a holy medicine for tonifying deficiency and boosting yang, and is often used for symptoms of kidney fire deficiency and coldness in the lower abdomen.

1. Cold wheezing: Kidney Yang is weak, the absorption function is impaired, the Qi cannot return, and there is shortness of breath for a long time, more exhalation than inhalation, cold pain in the waist and knees, blue face and cold limbs. Sulfur has great heat and can support yang, warm the kidney and absorb qi, and is often used together with black tin which can calm down floating yang, such as the two-ingredient black tin pill in Cheng Fang Qie Yong. It can also be used together with kidney-warming and yang-supporting drugs such as aconite and cinnamon to enhance the therapeutic effect, such as the black tin pill in Tai Ping Hui Min He Ji Ju Fang. Modern use of it to treat chronic bronchitis and asthma caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary emphysema is due to its ability to replenish fire, aid yang, and relieve asthma.

2. Impotence: Insufficient kidney yang, weakening of the fire of the gate of life, and decline of sexual function, resulting in impotence, premature ejaculation, frequent urination, cold pain in the waist and knees, etc. Sulfur can greatly replenish the fire of the life gate and help the original yang, and is often used together with deer antler, psoralea, curculigo, and cnidium monnieri for warming the kidney and strengthening yang.

4. Cold diarrhea and constipation

This product has the essence of pure Yang and is very hot in nature. It is good at replenishing the true fire of the Mingmen to repel cold. Yin is transformed into Yang and Qi and blood are regulated. It can open up Qi stagnation, eliminate cold knots, disperse cold spots, and move the internal organs. So it is often used for:

1. Cold diarrhea: The viscera are cold and weak, and the fire cannot warm the earth, which leads to abdominal pain, extreme cold diarrhea or diarrhea at dawn. Sulfur has a very high heat property and can replenish fire and generate earth, warm the spleen and stop diarrhea. For example, Puji Fang uses one or two liang of this product to grind into powder, dissolve it in yellow wax and mix it into pills for oral administration; while the yellow wax pills in Shengji Zonglu use this powder and yellow wax to make pills for oral administration, which can treat watery diarrhea and extreme cold damage. Lai Fu Dan in Tai Ping Hui Min He Ji Ju Fang uses this product in combination with saltpeter, Xuan Jing Shi, Qing Pi, Wu Ling Zhi and other products that can restore Yang and dispel cold, promote Qi and relieve pain to treat vomiting and diarrhea caused by typhoid fever in summer, abdominal pain and irritability, Yang Qi loss, weak pulse and cold limbs. It is used in modern times to treat chronic enteritis and chronic colitis, and its effects and functions are often the same as those of dried ginger, Atractylodes macrocephala, and Poria cocos.

2. Constipation due to deficiency and cold: Deficiency of Yang Qi and excess of Yin and cold inside the body, which stagnate the stomach and intestines. The Yang Qi is not functioning well and the large intestine is unable to conduct energy, resulting in constipation and six slow and deep pulses. Sulfur can warm the kidney and dispel cold, promote yang and relieve constipation. For example, Banliu Pills in Taiping Huimin Hejijufang uses this product together with Pinellia ternata, which can dispel nodules and resolve turbidity.