The efficacy and effects of Chinese medicine realgar, several commonly used prescriptions

Realgar is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine commonly used by people. In clinical practice, realgar can be used to treat axillary odor, asthma, and alopecia. Therefore, for the efficacy and functions of the traditional Chinese medicine realgar, please see the analysis below in this article.

The efficacy and function of realgar

Drying dampness, dispelling wind, killing insects and detoxifying. It is used to treat scabies, baldness, carbuncle, tooth decay, herpes zoster, tetanus, snake, insect and crab bites, axillary odor, ecthyma, asthma, laryngeal congestion, epilepsy, hemorrhoids and fistula.

① "Ben Jing": "It can cure cold and heat, fistula, malignant sore, carbuncle, hemorrhoids, dead muscle, and kill all kinds of insect poison."

② "Bie Lu": "It can treat scabies, sores, eye pain, nasal polyps, broken tendons and broken bones. It can also treat strong winds in the joints, accumulation, bad breath, abdominal pain caused by bad luck, kill the venom of snakes and vipers, and detoxify Veratrum."

③ "Rihuazi Bencao": "It can treat scabies, wind evil, epilepsy, miasma, and all bites by snakes, insects, dogs and animals."

④ Wang Haogu: "Searching for liver qi, purging liver wind, and eliminating salivation."

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can treat malaria, cold and fever, summer heat diarrhea, alcohol addiction, epilepsy, headache, dizziness, dissolve blood stasis in the abdomen, and kill worms and malnutrition."

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can treat carbuncle, rotten flesh, rat paralysis, carbuncle, hemorrhoids and other poisons."

Selection of Realgar

①For treating malaria and scabies: 1 liang of realgar, 2 liang of coptis root, 3 liang of pine resin, turning into gray like a bullet. Melt pig paste and rosin into Siwu mixture, pound it while hot, and apply it on the sore in a thin layer. (《Filling the gap at the back of the elbow》)

②Treatment of ringworm: realgar powder, vinegar. First wipe it with a new cloth, then apply it to the ringworm wound. (Qianjin Yifang)

③For treating scabies and ringworms: take equal parts of realgar and Cnidium monnieri, grind them into powder, and reduce the amount of mercury by half. Mix it with lard and mash it evenly, then add mercury and grind it again until no stars are visible. Wash with soup and apply medicine in the morning and evening. (Jiang Yuefeng's Family Recipe)

④Treatment of white baldness: realgar and pig bile. And apply it. (The Record of the Holy Spirit)

⑤For the treatment of carbuncle, ulcer and other toxic sores: 50 cents of realgar and twice the amount of talc. Grind the above ingredients into powder, apply it on the sore after washing, and cover it with cotton seeds. Use this to patch anything that is torn after washing. (The Miraculous Raw Meat Ointment from the Worldly Doctor's Effective Prescription)