Lime powder for the Chinese medicine lime ground into powder, with detoxification and etching corrosion, astringent sores to stop bleeding, kill insects and stop itching effect. Lime, for limestone by heating and calcination of quicklime, and its hydration product slaked lime, that is, calcium hydroxide stone, or a mixture of the two. Lime powder is made of ground lime of traditional Chinese medicine. Lime powder is used for carbuncle (a kind of poisonous sore, occurring on the surface of the body, limbs, internal organs of the acute suppurative disease) furuncle (mostly occurs in the limbs or facial sores, shape small root base deep, such as nails as hard), dengteng (acute infection, see the skin reddened like paint), scrofula (mainly refers to the neck lymph nodes tuberculosis) phlegm nucleus (the subcutaneous swelling such as nucleus of the tuberculosis), and so on. Note that it is not to be taken internally in soup. Sores, redness and swelling are prohibited; pregnant women should be cautious; external corrosion, confined only to the lesions, shall not affect the surrounding healthy skin. If you need to use lime powder, must be used under the guidance of a professional doctor.