Zi Shi Ying紫石英
FluoritumFluorite
Also known asAmethyst
- Category
- Substances that Anchor, Settle and Calm the Spirit
- Nature
- warm
- Taste
- sweet
- Channels entered
- Heart, Liver
- Dosage
- 9–16 g
Actions & indications
- Sedates the Heart and settles tremors and palpitations
- Disorientation, insomnia, palpitations with anxiety or convulsions due to Heart Blood Deficiency or Liver Yang Rising
- Warms the Lungs and descends *Qi*
- Cough or wheezing due to Deficiency Cold of the Lungs
- Used for wheezing with copious sputum
- Warms the Womb and warms and unblocks the Chong and Ren channels
- Excessive menstruation, uterine bleeding or infertility due to Cold from Deficiency of the Womb
Contraindications
- Contraindicated in Yin Deficiency Fire.
- Contraindicated in severe Blood Dryness.
Combinations
Palpitations, anxiety, disorientation, and insomnia from Heart Blood Deficiency combined with Liver Yang Rising.
Fright, pain, and convulsions caused by Phlegm-Heat in the Heart channel.
Rebellious Lung Qi with cough, wheezing, and copious sputum.
Notes
- It calms the Spirit and settles the mind while augmenting Liver Blood in the Lower Jiao.
- It moistens and relieves Dryness.
- It travels through the Chong and Ren Channels to warm the Womb.
- Calcined Fluorite, Duan Zi Shi Ying, is easier to pulverize and more readily warms the Lungs, sends Qi downward, dispels Cold, and warms the womb, though this form is rarely used.