Chinese medicine Gypsum is a commonly used heat-clearing and fire-purging medicine, mainly used for conditions such as high fever that does not improve, restlessness and delirium, delirium, thirst and dry throat, hot and rapid breathing due to lung heat, heatstroke with spontaneous sweating, and headache due to stomach fire. It should not be taken by those with spleen and stomach deficiency and blood deficiency and Yin deficiency with fever.
[Introduction of Chinese Medicine Gypsum]
Chinese medicine Gypsum is a type of gypsum of the sulfate mineral family. It mainly contains calcium sulfate dihydrate, which is widely distributed throughout the country and is almost found in all provinces and regions. It is mainly produced in Hubei, Gansu, Sichuan, etc., with the best quality produced in Hubei and Anhui.
Properties, flavors, meridians, and effects of Chinese medicine Gypsum: Properties and flavors: pungent and sweet, extremely cold. Meridians: Lung and Stomach. Effects: Heat-clearing and fire-purging, relieving restlessness and quenching thirst. Main uses: Used for conditions such as high fever, restlessness, and thirst due to warm and hot diseases, cough and wheezing due to lung heat, headache due to stomach fire, gum swelling and pain; chronic ulcers, eczema, burns.
[Treating Cough and Wheezing with Gypsum]
1. Chinese medicine Gypsum clears heat and fire and mainly targets the Lung meridian, making it an important medicine for clearing the lungs. It is used for cough and wheezing, asthma, and fever. It is often combined with cough-suppressing and asthma-relieving herbs such as Ephedra and Apricot Kernel, such as the Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang.
2. Chinese medicine Gypsum has a pungent and sweet flavor and is extremely cold. It can dispel heat externally and internally. It is used for high fever, restlessness, sweating, and strong pulse caused by warm pathogenic factors in the Qi level. It is often used in combination with heat-clearing, fire-purging, nourishing Yin, and generating fluids herbs such as Anemarrhena, such as the Bai Hu Tang; when Qi is not resolved, heat enters the blood level, causing high fever, vomiting blood, and rashes, it is often used in combination with heat-clearing and cooling blood herbs such as Rhinoceros Horn and Rehmannia, such as the Qing Wen Bai Du Yin.
3. After calcination, Chinese medicine Gypsum not only has the function of clearing heat but also has the effect of drying dampness. It is used for chronic ulcers that do not heal, eczema, and burns. It is often used in combination with heat-clearing, dampness-drying, and detoxifying herbs such as Coptis and Indigo Naturalis for external application. It can also be used alone as a powdered herb for external use.
4. Chinese medicine Gypsum clears heat and fire and mainly targets the Stomach meridian. It is good at clearing and purging stomach fire. It is used for headache, gum swelling and pain, mouth ulcers, and thirst caused by inflammation of stomach fire. It is often used in combination with herbs such as Rehmannia, Anemarrhena, and Achyranthes, such as the Yu Nu Jian.
