Herb

Tu ji (an unfired mud-brick)

土墼tu ji

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Recorded in Bencao Gangmu for women's masses and head sores, and for finger-sized red swollen phlegm-nodules, powdered and applied in rapeseed oil.

Source

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷七·土部·土墼·主治

References

functions_en self-translated from 本草纲目 traditional_functions (public domain; the Chinese tf carries verbatim excerpt_hash citations). No modern work consulted.
WHO IST-TCM terminology-aligned for the English rendering.
public pharmacopoeia & physical facts (public-domain reference facts; no proprietary modern source).

Traditional functions

Classical source text (Chinese) — English summary above.

传统中医记载：主妇人鳖瘕及头上诸疮；古载痰核如指大红肿者为末菜子油调搽即消。

Citations

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷七·土部·土墼·释名Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its classification.
Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷七·土部·土墼·主治Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.