Magnetite, Ci Shi 磁石

Lodestone
Kanta (Ayurveda)
Ci Shi (TCM)
Khab len  ཁབ་ལེན  (Tibetan)
Picture Ortus Sanitatis, 1491

Picture Magnetite specimen (from Bolivia)
Photo by Rob Lavinsky iRocks.com (Wikimedia)

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Mineralogical Name:
Magnetitum

Parts used:


The best is black and strongly magnetic

Temperature & Taste:


Cold, dry. Pungent, Bitter and Salty

Constituents:


Ferriferrous oxide (Fe3O4); traces of Si, Pb, Ti, P, Mn, Ca, As, Cr
Vinegar-prepared Magnetite is mainly Ferric oxide (Fe2O3), ferric acetate.

Classification:


2M. DRAWING
4f. SPLENETIC
TCM:
G. Sedate the Heart, Mind and Spirit

Uses:


1. Calms the Mind and Spirit, Pacifies the Liver, Clears Wind and Heat (TCM, West, Tibet, Ayurveda):

2. Strengthens the Kidneys, Benefits the Essence (TCM, West, Ayurveda):

3. Strengthens the Lungs and Kidneys, Stops Wheezing:

4. Promotes Childbirth:

5. Opens the Liver and Spleen, Clears Melancholy:
    
6. Benefits the Blood:

7. Externally:
-using Magnets locally over painful, weak, or diseased parts has been practiced in different places at different times. It has more recently become in vogue again, and many products are now offered which use Magnets.


Dose:


… available in PRO version

Preparation:


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Main Combinations:


1. Melancholy, Magnetite with … available in PRO version
2. For Palpitations, Dizziness, Tinnitus, Headache, Poor Vision, Magnetite with … available in PRO version
3. Dizziness and Vertigo:
i. Magnetite with … available in PRO version
ii. Magnetite with … available in PRO version
iii. Vertigo with Headache, Magnetite, … available in PRO version
iv. Magnetite with … available in PRO version
4. Tinnitus:
i. Magnetite with … available in PRO version
ii. Magnetite with … available in PRO version
5. Hemiplegia, after-effects of Stroke, slurred speech, deviating mouth, Magnetite with … available in PRO version
6. Cough and Wheezing associated with Kidney Deficiency:
i. Magnetite with … available in PRO version
ii. Magnetite with … available in PRO version
iii. Magnetite with … available in PRO version
7. Impotence:
i. Magnetite … available in PRO version
ii. Magnetite with … available in PRO version
8. Prolapsed Uterus, Magnetite powder and … available in PRO version
9. Blurry vision:
i. Magnetite, … available in PRO version
ii. Magnetite, … available in PRO version
iii. Magnetite, … available in PRO version
10. Deafness in one ear: put a small piece of magnetite … available in PRO version
11. Palpitation with Insomnia, Magnetite, … available in PRO version
12. Weakness in the elderly, Magnetite, … available in PRO version

Major Formulas:


Zi Xue Dan
Zha Chong 13 Pill of Mongolian Medicine

Cautions:


1. Heavy on the stomach and hard to digest, it is not suitable for those with marked digestive weakness. It should not be taken for more than 3 weeks without a break in treatment.
2. “Taken inwardly makes the recipient melancholic, lunatic and swollen. However it is used by physicians, when modified with other medicines in the treatment of melancholia” (De venenis, Petrus, 1487)
3. Magnetite usually contains traces of arsenic.

Antidote:
… available in PRO version

Main Preparations used:


Prepared Powder
1. Anti-inflammatory
2. Increases iron in iron-deficiency anemia
3. Increases blood coagulation
4. Sedative
5. Anti-convulsant