Table 2 A summary of traditional preparations of mineral drugs
From: Mineral medicine: from traditional drugs to multifunctional delivery systems
Preparation | Chinese patent medicine | Mineral medicines | Pharmacological action | Clinical application |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Decoction | Baihu decoction | Gypsum | Clearing heat and promoting fluid production | Viral cold high fever, acute cerebral hemorrhage, infectious diseases, etc |
Zhengan Xifeng decoction | Os Draconis | Suppressing hyperactive liver for calming endogenous wind and nourishing yin for suppressing hyperactive yang | Hypertension, cerebrovascular disease, chronic gastritis, intractable insomnia, etc | |
Dachengqi decoction | Mirabilite | Completed under the hot junction | Simple intestinal obstruction, adhesive intestinal obstruction, acute cholecystitis, acute pancreatitis, etc | |
Bixie Shenshi decoction | Talc | Clearing heat and cooling blood and promoting diuresis | Gout, mycotic vaginitis, acute eczema, erythema nodosum, lower limb erysipelas | |
Cream soup | Os Draconis | Relieving diarrhea with astringents | Chyluria, etc | |
Chishizhi Yuyuliang decoction | Halloysite, Limonite | Astringing the intestine and arresting proptosis | Diarrhea, functional uterine bleeding, chronic enteritis, metrorrhagia, etc | |
Guizhi Gancao Longgu Muli decoction | Os Draconis | Anti-depression, amelioration of menopausal syndrome | Insomnia, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, etc | |
Jianling decoction | Ochre, Os Draconis | Nourishing yin for tranquillization and suppressing hyperactive liver for calming endogenous wind | Hypertension, cardiac neurosis hemorrhagic sinusitis, migraine, intractable hiccup, etc | |
Ephedra Almond Licorice Plaster decoction | Gypsum | Antiviral, antipyretic, antitussive, expectorant, diuretic, sedative et al | Community-acquired pneumonia, pediatric acute bronchopneumonia, etc | |
Zhuling decoction | Talc | Diuretic, antibacterial, improve renal function, inhibit the formation of kidney stones | Recurrent urinary tract infection, ascites due to hepatitis B cirrhosis, brain injury, etc | |
Daqinjiao decoction | Gypsum | Anti-inflammatory | Gout, rheumatoid arthritis, facial palsy, scapulohumeral periarthritis, etc | |
Xuanbai Chengqi decoction | Gypsum | Ventilating lung qi for dissipating phlegm and purgation | Pulmonary heart disease, asthma, bronchiectasis, lung abscess, etc | |
Dahuang Mudan decoction | Mirabilite | Clearing heat for detumescence | Acute simple appendicitis, pelvic inflammation | |
Xuanfu Daizhe decoction | Ochre | Harmonizing stomach for descending adverse qi | Gastritis, gastric distension, pyloric insufficiency, nervous hiccup, etc | |
Huanglong decoction | Mirabilite | Clearing intestinal heat, replenishing qi, and nourishing blood | Typhoid fever, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, senile intestinal obstruction, etc | |
Pill | Jiebiao Zhuifeng pills | Cinnabar, Realgar | Dispel wind and dispel exterior, strengthen stomach and balance | Headache with wind-cold and cough |
Fangfeng Tongsheng pills | Mirabilite, Talc, Gypsum | Relieving superficies and catharsis and clearing heat and removing toxicity | Cold, trigeminal neuralgia, acute shigellosis, acute conjunctivitis, etc | |
Niuhuang Qingwei pills | Gypsum | Improve gastrointestinal function and has a certain analgesic effect | Tonsillitis, gingivitis, recurrent oral ulcers, acute pharyngitis | |
Niuhuangzhibao pills | Gypsum, Mirabilite, Realgar | Clearing heat-fire and facitating feces excretion | Functional constipation | |
Liushen pills | Realgar | Antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, anti-convulsive, sedative, and enhance immunity | Chronic pharyngitis, chronic hepatitis, upper gastrointestinal cancer, leukemia, etc | |
Jiuzhi Qingxin pills | Cinnabar, Realgar | Clearing heat-fire and facitating feces excretion | Dizziness, mouth and nose sores, sore throat, constipation knots, etc | |
Liangge pills | Gypsum, Mirabilite | Anti-inflammatory and antipyretic | Sore mouth and tongue, hematemesis, cough, sore throat, etc | |
Qingwei Huangliang pills | Gypsum | Antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, anti-viral | Stomatitis, periodontitis, and oral ulcer | |
Huanglian Shangqing pills | Gypsum | Antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, analgesic | Acute stomatitis, acute conjunctivitis, acute gastroenteritis, toothache mouth ulcer, etc | |
Fufang Niuhuang Qingwei pillls | Gypsum, Mirabilite | Antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, and anti-viral | Acute pharyngitis, tonsillitis, oral ulcer, and periodontitis | |
Daochi pills | Talc | Antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, diuretic, antipyretic, anti-platelet aggregation, hemostasis | Stomatitis, urethritis, acute and chronic pyelonephritis, urinary calculi | |
Jinsuo Gujing pills | Os Draconis | Decrease urine protein, regulate blood lipid and improve pathological changes of renal tissue | Male neurosis effects, chronic cervicitis, intractable night sweats, etc | |
Wan`s Niuhuang Qingxin pills | Cinnabar | Clearing away the heat-evil and calming down | Japanese encephalitis, pertussis complicated with meningoencephalitis, etc | |
Niuhuang Qingxin pills | Cinnabar, Realgar | Sedation, anti-convulsion, antipyretic, antihypertensive, improve hypoxia tolerance | Severe amnesia, aphthous stomatitis, intractable hiccups | |
Angong Niuhuang pills | Cinnabar, Realgar | A calm, strong heart, protect brain tissue, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, anti-pathogenic microorganisms | Japanese encephalitis, toxic pneumonia, high fever and coma caused by infection or poisoning, etc | |
Suhexiang pills | Cinnabar | Dilate coronary artery, increase coronary flow, slow heart rate, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption, etc | Coronary heart disease angina, myocardial infarction, acute cerebrovascular disease, epilepsy, etc | |
Mengshi Guntan pills | Mica-schist | Dispelling phlegm, relieving asthma and sedation, etc | Stroke, schizophrenia, epilepsy, migraines, neurosis effects | |
Medical pills | Cinnabar, Realgar, Alum | Sedation, analgesia, anticonvulsants, etc | Epilepsy, manic psychosis | |
Baizi Yangxin pills | Cinnabar | Inhibit the central nervous and play sedation, hypnosis, diazepam, anti-convulsion | Neurasthenia, memory loss, schizophrenia, menopause, hyperthyroidism, heart disease, etc | |
Cizhu pills | Magnetite, Cinnabar | Nourishing blood for improving eyesight and tranquillization | For epilepsy, tinnitus, insomnia, and so on | |
Tianwang Buxin pills | Cinnabar | Anti-myocardial infarction, enhance the body’s immune function, sedation, anti-convulsion, anti-arrhythmia, etc | Low blood pressure, insomnia, psychosis, hyperthyroidism, climacteric syndrome, chronic conjunctivitis, myocarditis, tuberculosis, hypertension, etc | |
Zhusha Anshen pills | Cinnabar | Sedative-hypnotic, antiarrhythmic, anticonvulsant, antipyretic and analgesic, etc | Neurasthenia, schizophrenia, epilepsy, myocarditis, etc | |
Naoliqing pills | Magnetite, Ochre | Lower blood pressure, sedation, antiemetic, vasodilator, etc | High blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, etc | |
Zaizao pills | Cinnabar | Anti-coagulation, improve microcirculation, anti-inflammation, etc | Stroke, hemiplegia, numbness of hands and feet, pain and convulsion, etc | |
Gejie Dingchuan pills | Gypsum | Antitussive, expectorant, anti-asthmatic, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, enhance immune function | Bronchitis, asthma, tuberculosis, etc | |
Suoyang Gujing pills | Os Draconis, Halite | Treatment of kidney deficiency | Male sexual neurosis effects, prostatitis, infertility, etc | |
Shixiang Fansheng pills | Cinnabar, Mica-schist | Dissipating phlegm for resuscitation and tranquillization | Hysteria, neurosis effects, shock, epilepsy, schizophrenia, depression, seizures, etc | |
Powder | Liuyi powder | Talc | Clear away heat and facilitate urination | Heat and dampness caused by fever, external treatment of prickly heat, etc |
Qili powder | Cinnabar | Remove stasis and detumescence, relieve pain and stop bleeding | Soft tissue injury, and other infectious, purulent diseases, etc | |
Zixue powder | Gypsum, Talc, Magnetite, Cinnabar, Mirabilite, North Calcium | Antipyretic, anticonvulsant, sedative, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory | Japanese encephalitis, sepsis, acute zinc phosphide poisoning, etc | |
Biwen powder | Cinnabar | Get rid of the heat and the pain | Summer heat stroke, motion sickness, seasickness | |
Bingpeng powder | Cinnabar, Borax, Sodium sulfate powder | Anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, analgesic, etc | Gingival swelling and pain, tonsillitis, oral ulcers, mumps, herpes zoster, fungal vaginitis, and cervical erosion |