Talcum powder, or talcum powder ground into powder, can be used to treat feverish drenching (burning and stinging pain evident during urination, accompanied by frequent urination and urgency, and discomfort from traction in the lower abdomen), diarrhea, and irritable thirst. Talc is the silicate talc family mineral talc, when ground into powder, it is talcum powder. It can be decocted in packets, put into pills or used externally. It is sweet in flavor and cold in nature. It has the effect of diuretic and diaphoretic (improving the problem of dribbling and urination, and the problem of small amount of urination not being able to pass), clearing away heat and summer heat, and dispelling dampness and astringing sores. In clinical practice, it can be used in combination with Job’s tears and psyllium to treat summer-dampness and chest congestion, heat drenching and dysuria (inability to urinate), heartburn, fever, thirst, wet sores, damp-heat and diarrhea, and so on. Pregnant women should be cautious in the use of this drug, and patients with weak spleen and qi, fever and fluid injury should not use this drug. If patients need to use this medicine, they should go to the hospital for consultation and use this medicine under the guidance of a doctor.