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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 15 Alum of the base of the original research and pharmacological effects OF: You Shuxia, Wu Dekang, LIU Sheng Jin, Liu Xun Hong, Lin Chao [Keywords:] mineral medicine, alum, the base of the original research, pharmacology, review Alum (Alumen) mainly containing aluminum potassium sulphate [KAl (SO4) 2.12 H2O], produced in Zhejiang, Anhui, Gansu, Hubei, Shanxi and other places. Medicine irregular massive or granular, white, yellow, transparent or translucent, smooth or slightly uneven surface, with fine longitudinal edge, a glass-like gloss, hard and brittle. gas micro, Pickle, slightly sweet and very astringent [1]. hardness of 2.0 to 2.5, the relative density of 1.757, to colorless, transparent, non-preferred folder stones [2]. cold, sour taste, the lung, spleen, liver, large intestine, with phlegm, dampness, bleeding, diarrhea effect [3]. to clarify varieties of mineral drugs alum to reduce the security risks of clinical medicine, the author and by consulting ancient texts with modern medical research base of alum was the original research, and its pharmacological effects were described. 1 Materia Medica records 1.1 The source of the first alum contained in lt;lt;Shen Nong’s Herbal Sutra “gt;, as a top grade, formerly known as” alum stone. “Alum stone, white, transparent, and subject to the burnt fried refining the system, so called alum, an alum. Alum, referring to the burnt stone, that is roasting the ore, mined ore Weici, the subject burned fried refining the system, because as alum. Song Su Song said: “Stone is also the primary, adopted for the refining is broken into the fried.” Li said: “ alum were burnt also. burnt stones are made of. “due to that of alumina [4]. Hongjing said:” color plainer, horse teeth were living alum, has been to Make absolutely white, Youyi Shu as saltpeter, name alum “[5]. 1.2 Variety Li said: “Analysis and identified the ettringite, not only in the five also. Alum, alchemist that the white