The addition of talcum powder to traditional Chinese medicine has the effect of diuretic and diaphoretic (improving the problem of dribbling and urination, and the problem of small amount of urination), clearing heat and relieving summer heat, and collecting dampness and astringing sores (reducing the invasion of dampness and promoting the healing of sores).
Talc was first published in “Shennong Ben Cao Jing”, mainly produced in Shandong, Jiangxi, Liaoning and other places, the clinic will generally be powdered or water fly with. Talc is sweet, light, cold, faint, odorless, and belongs to the bladder and stomach meridians.
Talc has diuretic effect, for the treatment of gonorrhea (increased urination, dribbling astringent pain), especially good at treating damp-heat injection (dampness and heat evil invasion of the intestines, bladder, yin, lower limbs, etc.), heat knots in the bladder due to urinary astringency and pain and urinary stones caused by urinary dribbling pain.
In addition, talc can also clear summer heat, for the treatment of summer dampness, wet temperature (feeling dampness and heat caused by the temperature of the disease) commonly used medicine; can also dry dampness and astringent sores (by drying dampness to astringent sores), the treatment of wet sores, eczema, prickly heat and other skin diseases.
It should also be noted that talcum powder tends to float on the surface of the liquid when decocting, which is not conducive to decoction, so it needs to be packaged and decocted. The specific use of the drug should be under the guidance of a professional physician.