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Pin Yin: zhusha-
Common name: cinnabar (mercuric sulfide, mercuric phosphates)
Botanical family: (mineral)
Primary action: Calm Spirit
Temperature: cool
Taste: sweet, poisonous
Entering Channel: Ht
Actions:
Sedates the Heart and calms Spirit; alleviates agitation, insomia,
convulsions, and palpitations.
Used topically to detoxify Poison and prevent putrefaction; used for carbuncles,
snakebite.
Expels Phlegm and clears Heat; used for dizziness from Wind Phlegm and
for Lung Heat.
(See
Phlegm Fire Harassing Heart
.)
Dosage:
0.1-0.6 qian taken orally as powder.
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