Calcareous Tufa

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Clears Heat and benefits the Lung - used in Tibetan and regional minority-medicine traditions for Lung Heat, cough, and hot inflammatory respiratory disorders.
• Stops cough and supports recovery from hot lung disease - extended to pediatric pneumonia, irritative cough, and feverish pulmonary conditions in traditional formula use.
• Assists wound healing and retreats jaundice - a lesser but recurring traditional role in ethnic-medicine references for hot sores, tissue injury, and jaundice patterns.

Secondary Actions

• Shi Hui Hua belongs more to Tibetan and minority-medicine formula traditions than to mainstream single-herb Han TCM dispensing.
• It is usually powdered and incorporated into compound preparations rather than featured as a famous standalone decoction herb.

Classic Formulas

• Jiu Wei Shi Hui Hua San (九味石灰华散) - Tibetan formula tradition used for pediatric pneumonia, high fever, agitation, and cough in hot lung disorders.
• Ba Wei Shi Hui Hua Wan (八味石灰华丸) - regional Tibetan formula line used for heat-type edema, cough, wheezing, oliguria, and weakness with fluid retention.
• Shi Hui Hua with safflower, terminalia fruit, and aromatic spices - a recurring ethnic-medicine combination pattern for clearing Heat while supporting the Lung and moving constrained pathology.

Classical References

• Chinese encyclopedia and regional Chinese herb references identify Shi Hui Hua as a characteristic Tibetan mineral medicinal rather than a mainstream Han pharmacopoeia decoction herb.
• Traditional summaries consistently describe it as slightly sweet and cool, with the core actions of clearing Heat and benefiting the Lung; some regional references also add wound-healing and jaundice-relieving uses.
• IMPORT NOTE: the source XLSX supplied the Latin 'Calx Pulveratum', which is too generic and can suggest powdered lime. Tibetan materia medica references instead identify this drug as calciosinti, a calcium-carbonate-rich tufa or travertine material. This record follows the Tibetan medicinal identity rather than quicklime or caustic construction lime.