The efficacy and effects of cinnabar

Cinnabar is a sulfide mineral cinnabar, the main component of which is mercury sulfide. It is mainly produced in Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan and other places. Traditionally, the best quality of cinnabar is produced in Yuanling, Hunan, which is a traditional Taoist medicinal material. Cinnabar is slightly cold, sweet in taste, toxic, and mainly belongs to the heart meridian. It has the functions of clearing the heart, calming the mind, clearing the eyes, and detoxifying the toxin.

Clearing the heart and calming the mind

Cinnabar is sweet, slightly cold, and heavy in texture. Chinese medicine believes that cold can lower the fire and heavy can calm the timid, while cinnabar enters the heart meridian, so it can clear the real fire in the heart meridian while calming and tranquilizing the mind. Vermilion is especially good at treating palpitations and palpitations, irritability, irritability, insomnia and dreaminess caused by excessive fire in the heart and restlessness in the mind.

Calms the mind

Cinnabar can clear the heart fire, but also can calm the spasm, has a calming effect, so it can be used for warm fever, epileptic frenzy, high fever and irritability, delirium, convulsions and other symptoms, can also be used to treat pediatric fright.

Brightening the eyes

Cinnabar can clear the heart fire and brighten the eyes, and can be used for the treatment of dimming vision, tinnitus and deafness, palpitations and insomnia caused by the failure of the heart and kidneys.

Clearing heat and detoxifying

Cinnabar is slightly cold in nature and is good at clearing heart fire. It is used externally or internally to clear heat and detoxify the body, and can be used to treat conditions such as poisoning from heat sores, sore throat and sores on the tongue.

The pharmacological effects of cinnabar

Cinnabar can reduce the excitability of the central nervous system and has sedative, hypnotic and anticonvulsant effects. In addition, it has anti-arrhythmic, inhibiting or killing skin bacteria and parasites.

Adverse effects of cinnabar

Vermilion is a compound of inorganic mercury, which has a special affinity for human proteins and can inhibit the activity of various enzymes at high concentrations, leading to metabolic disorders in the body and direct damage to the central nervous system.

Symptoms of cinnabar poisoning

The main symptoms of acute poisoning with cinnabar are low or absent urine, swelling, and even coma and convulsions, decreased blood pressure, or death due to kidney failure. Chronic vermilion poisoning can be manifested as a metallic taste in the mouth, increased salivation, oral mucous membrane congestion, ulcers, gum pain, bleeding, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, as well as finger or body muscle tremors, growth damage can be manifested as hematuria, proteinuria, etc.

Contraindications to the use of cinnabar

Cinnabar is toxic and should not be taken in large or small amounts for long periods of time. Because its mercury compounds tend to degrade human proteins and can accumulate in the body during childbirth, it is prohibited for pregnant women and those with renal insufficiency. Cinnabar can be subjected to chemical reactions over a long period of time, which can precipitate mercury and other toxic substances, increasing toxicity, so it should also be noted that the use of cinnabar in the process of fire calcination is prohibited.