Epiphyllum for the buttercup plant aconite root of processed products, habitually known as “mud epiphyllum”, can then be processed into salt epiphyllum, black Shun tablets, white epiphyllum tablets, the specific concoctions as follows.
1. Salt epiphyllum: Wash the large, uniform mud epiphyllum and immerse it into the aqueous solution of cholecalciferol overnight, and then add salt to continue soaking, during which it should be taken out daily to dry in the sun and gradually lengthen the time of drying in the sun until a large number of crystalline salt particles appear on the surface of the epiphyllum (brine frost), until the hardening of the body texture.
2. Black Shun piece: the mud epiphyllum is immersed into the water solution of gall bladder for a few days, together with the immersion solution is boiled to the heart, fished out and rinsed, sliced longitudinally, and then rinsed with water, and the epiphyllum is dyed into a strong tea color with the color mixing liquid and then taken out, and then steamed until the appearance of the oil surface, glossy and then baked to half-dry, and then dried in the sun or continue to be dried.
3. White slices of epiphyllum: the uniform size of the mud epiphyllum washed, immersed in a solution of water in the gallbladder for several days, together with the immersion solution boiled to the heart, fish out and peeled off the outer skin, longitudinal slices, bleached with water, removed from the steam and then dried.
Pungent, hot and dry, so pregnant women should be cautious, should be contraindicated in yin deficiency and hyperactivity. This drug must be taken internally by concocting, internal overdose, or concocting, decoction method is not appropriate, can cause poisoning. And this drug should not be used with Gua Piper, Semen Armeniacae, Chuan Bei Mu, Smallpox Powder and other herbs.
If you need to concoct epiphyllum should be carried out by professionals, should not be self-concocted, so as not to cause poisoning, the specific use of medication should follow the doctor’s instructions.