Product name : PUMEX

Item : GMP

Details :
    Pumice stone, the name of Chinese herbal medicine. This product is the skeleton of Brychoma spinosa and Barycocystis tumefaciens etc. Latin plant name: 1. Costazia aculeata Canu et Bassler 2. Cellporina costazii (Audouin) [Costazia costazii Audouin] Harvesting and storage: fish out from the sea in summer and autumn, rinse with clean water, remove salt and soup sand, and dry in the sun. Functions and indications are: clearing the lung and resolving phlegm; The main phlegm-heat cough; goiters; sores. Harvested from the sea in summer and autumn, rinsed with water to remove salt and soup sand, and dried in the sun. my country's pumice stones are distributed in the southern coastal areas, from Shandong Peninsula, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Xisha, Zhongsha, and Nansha, at a water depth of 0-150m.

       Function Indications:
       Clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm; softening and resolving hard masses. The main phlegm-heat cough; goiters; sores.

       Morphological characteristics:
       1. Bryophora spinosa, a marine group animal living in sedentary camps, hermaphroditic. The individual worms are small, sac-shaped, with a mouth in front, and horse-shaped hoof-shaped protrusions on the edge of the mouth, on which there are many tentacles. The alimentary canal is bent into a "U" shape, connecting the mouth and anus, which is also at the front of the body. The calcareous and gelatinous substances are secreted outside the body to form the group skeleton of the branches. After the insect body dies, the off-white or gray-yellow coral-like skeleton remains.
       2. Brychocystis tumoriformis, tumor-like, pea-like or forked-like in groups, light yellow or yellowish-brown. Individual worms are medium in size, including egg cells with a length of 0.5-0.62 mm, irregular arrangement, round or slightly square mouth, and a small cavity on the lower edge. The primary mouth is located on the outside of the group. As the individual ages, the primary mouth gradually goes deeper. Sinking, its surface gradually forms a secondary mouth by the periostium, on both sides of the mouth the periostia forms a pair of columns, with small lateral avicularia on it, obliquely facing each other. At the lower edge of the mouth, the perioral membrane forms long tongues of different sizes; extending into the secondary mouth. ; The degree of development of the perioral membrane varies with age. The egg chamber is larger and wider, 0.13-0.15mm long, 0.25-0.28mm wide, protruding or sunken, the outer egg chamber is narrow circle-shaped; the inner egg chamber has protruding radially arranged channels.

       Related Discourses:
       1. Zhu Zhenheng: Haishi, cures old phlegm accumulation, salty can soften hard.
       2. "Compendium": Pumice, with a salty and cold smell, is also used for moistening the skin. Therefore, it enters the lungs to remove phlegm-heat in the upper burner, stops coughing and softens the firmness, and clears its upper source, so it also treats various stranguria.
       3. "Supplements to Materia Medica": Water flowers are thirsty, travel to places where there is no water in the mountains, and take Kuanchilou as pills, take 20 pills in advance, and you will never be thirsty.
       4. "Materia Medica Yanyi": Stone flowers, white, round like a big horse ladle, with a hundred branches on them, each branch has different teeth like deer antlers, and there are detailed texts on it. There is a sound of clanking, and this stone flower is also. It is also rare in the world to live on stones in the sea. Its body is very brittle and cannot help being struck.
       5. "Compendium": Pumice is the fine sand and water in the rivers and seas that condenses and forms over time. It looks like water foam and stalactites, with fine pores like a plank, white and light. Those in the sea are ignorant and salty, and it is better to be used as medicine.

​Barcode: GMP
Ingredients: pumice stone
Specifications: 16oz (454g)
Efficacy: clearing lung heat, resolving old phlegm. Lung-heat cough, old phlegm accumulation, goiter and scrofula and other syndromes.