Oyster decoction needs to be decocted for half an hour before it is decocted at the same time with other medicines.
Oyster is the shell of the oyster, long oyster, Dalian Bay oyster or near river oyster of the oyster family. Because of its hard texture, the active ingredients are not easy to decoct. Therefore, it needs to be decocted for about half an hour first, and then decocted with other medicines at the same time, which is conducive to the decoction of medicinal ingredients.
Oyster can re-calm and tranquilize the mind (using mineral and shell medicines to stabilize the mind), submerge yang and tonify yin, and soften and dissipate knots (soften and dissipate hard lumps). It is used for palpitations and insomnia, dizziness and tinnitus, scrofula (mainly refers to tuberculosis of lymph nodes in the neck), phlegm nuclei (lumps swollen up like nuclei under the skin), obstruction in the abdomen (lumps in women’s lower abdomen), and lumps (lumps).
Calcined oyster can astringent (astringent consolidation), acid suppression and pain relief (suppressing gastric acid and alleviating pain). It is used for spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the day, aggravated by sweating with slight movement), night sweating (abnormal sweating after going to sleep, stopping sweating after waking up), spermatorrhea and seminal fluid leakage, menorrhagia (excessive menstrual flow or more than a few drops), and stomach pain and acid swallowing (swallowing the acid that goes up to the oropharynx from the stomach).
Patients are advised to follow the doctor’s instructions for medication.