矿物中药在中医临床应用前多用火进行炮制处理。在实践中人们逐步发现,用火炮制各种矿物中药时伴随有许多特殊反应发生。如发光、炸裂、气味、熔化……这些现象慢慢成为鉴别矿物中药真伪优劣的方法。梁代陶弘景在《本草经集注》中云:硝石以火烧之,紫青烟起,仍成灰,不停沸如扑硝 Before the clinical application of traditional Chinese medicine, mineral medicines are often treated with fire. In practice, people have gradually discovered that there are many special reactions that accompany the use of guns to make various mineral medicines. Such phenomena as luminescence, bursting, odor, melting, etc., have slowly become the methods to identify the authenticity and inferiority of mineral medicines. Liang Hong Tao Hongjing in the “Ben Cao Jing Ji” in the cloud: saltpetre to burn it, purple smoke, still ash, non-stop boiled like a throwing