Hwalseok
Talc · Talcum
한글 활석 · Pinyin Hua Shi
滑石
Properties 性味
- Taste & nature
- Sweet, bland · cold
- Channels entered
- Stomach, Bladder
- Actions
- Clears damp-heat and unblocks urination, releases summerheat, absorbs dampness topically
- Typical dose
- 9–15 g, decocted in cloth bag
Appears in 12 formulas 處方
- Eight Corrections Powder八正散 4 g · Deputy 臣
- Polyporus Decoction猪苓湯 6 g · Assistant 佐
- Siler and Platycodon Sage-Penetrating Powder防風通聖散 6.8 g · Chief 君
- Three Seeds Decoction三仁湯 8 g · Deputy 臣
- Ginseng Powder人參散 80 g · Chief 君
- Ginseng and Poria Powder人參茯苓散 6 g · Chief 君
- Resolve Wine and Transform Toxin Powder解酒化毒散 160 g · Chief 君
- Atractylodes and Poria Decoction朮苓湯 8 g · Chief 君
- Saposhnikovia and Angelica Drink防風當歸飮子 12 g · Chief 君
- Scutellaria Phellodendron and Ailanthus Bark Pill芩柏樗皮丸 40 g · Deputy 臣
- Hasten the Birth Powder催生散 20 g · Assistant 佐
- Dragon Slough Powder龍蛻散 40 g · Deputy 臣