Chinese Medicine Specimen Database

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砒霜 Arsenic Trioxide Pi Shuang

ID: D00202

Pharmaceutical Name:
Arsenicum

Location: 33

Chinese Name

砒霜

Chinese Pinyin

Pi Shuang

English Name

Arsenic Trioxide

Family

Arsenic trioxide

Taste

tasteless; extremely toxic

Odour

Clinical Indications

1. Dyspnoeix cough with whitish sputum, asthma
2. Malaria
3. Scrofula, tuberculosis
4. External use for haemorrhoid, fistula, chronic ulcers, chronic tinea infection

Display Category

31 Types of Poisonous/Toxic Chinese Medicines Under Regulation in Hong Kong

Function Category

Detoxicating, Pus Evacuating and Tissue Regenerating Drugs

Medicine Category

Mineral

Source

Centre Collection

Permanent URL：https://sys01.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/cmed/cmsd/detail.php?herb_id=D00202