Hai Fu Shi, or the Chinese medicine Pumice Stone, has the effects of clearing lungs and resolving phlegm, softening and dispersing knots (softening and dispersing hard lumps), and can be used to treat phlegm-heat coughing and asthma, scrofula (mainly referring to tuberculosis of the lymph nodes in the neck), and gall tumors (equivalent to tumors of the thyroid gland), among other conditions.
As a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, Fuhai Shi is salty and cold in nature, and belongs to the lung and kidney meridians. The cold nature of Fuhai Shi can clear the lungs and reduce fire, and its salty taste can soften and disperse knots and resolve phlegm. It can be used to treat cough and phlegm caused by phlegm-heat, as well as scrofula, phlegm nuclei (lumps swollen up like nuclei under the skin), gall tumors and other conditions caused by phlegm-fire coagulation.
This drug is often used together with Bei Mu, gall bladder and other drugs, can cure phlegm-heat congestion of the lungs, coughing and wheezing, sputum yellow and thick; if the liver fire burns the lungs, coughing for a long time with blood in the sputum, can be matched with Qing Dai, gardenia, Gua Dao and other drugs, in order to diarrhea the liver and clear the lungs, phlegm and stop bleeding.
At present, the adverse reactions and contraindications for pumice stone is not clear, to be used under the guidance of a doctor, can not blindly use the drug. If discomfort occurs should consult a doctor in time, so as not to delay the condition.