Cinnabar, with its vibrant red color, is highly favored in the wenwan market and is believed to possess properties such as shock prevention, evil avoidance, and enhancement of earthly energy. It is considered a precious item to be worn or used in various constructions and burials for its spiritual significance. Cinnabar is known for its strong magnetic field, often warmer to the touch compared to other minerals like jade and dzi beads.
As an ornament, cinnabar has several benefits and taboos associated with its use:
- Daily Wear Taboos: Cinnabar, being a natural ore, has properties to calm the heart and mind, and clear heat and toxins. However, due to its toxicity, it should not be ingested long-term. It must not be stored in iron containers or cleaned with saltwater. Cinnabar, with its strong yang magnetic field, should not come into contact with magnets that could disrupt its natural magnetism. It is also advised not to wear it during intimate relations and to keep it from blood contamination.
- Bathing with Cinnabar: While cinnabar is not soluble in water and is often worn for protection and evil avoidance, it is best to remove cinnabar jewelry before bathing. Although it will not dissolve, wearing it while bathing may show disrespect to the deities depicted on the jewelry and could potentially affect its efficacy.
- Cinnabar in Cloth Packages: Sometimes, cinnabar is wrapped in cloth and placed in rooms to calm the mind and ward off evil. Such packages should not be casually opened as this could greatly reduce their effectiveness. It is also advised not to open packages of cinnabar when visiting places with heavy yin energy, such as graveyards.
- Children and Pregnant Women: If children wear cinnabar, they should be instructed not to lick or hold it in their mouths. It is recommended to place cinnabar in a pouch, sew it securely, and then have children wear it. A better approach is to wear cinnabar jewelry made from pressed powder, which eliminates the concern. Pregnant women are advised not to wear cinnabar during pregnancy, despite its many benefits, due to its mercury content, which is known to be harmful, even if the chances of harm are minimal.
The roles and benefits of cinnabar include:
- For Sores and Swelling: Cinnabar has detoxifying properties when applied externally. It can be combined with realgar, mountain慈菇, musk, and qianjinzi for external application to treat sores and swelling. It can also be used with borneol, borax, and xianming powder for throat gargling to treat mouth ulcers and throat pain. Wearing cinnabar on the body can inhibit bacteria well.
- For Mental Restlessness: Cinnabar can calm the spirit and is suitable for various mental restlessness symptoms. For excessive heart fire, restlessness, and insomnia, it can be used with other calming herbs like coptis and magnetite. In cases of high fever and delirium, it can be combined with substances like bezoar and musk that clear heat and open the orifices. For phlegm-heat-induced convulsions, it can be paired with substances like curcuma zedoaria and curcuma zedoaria to resolve phlegm and calm convulsions. For blood deficiency palpitations and insomnia, it can be combined with nourishing and calming herbs like salvia, rehmannia, angelica, and cypress seed.
- Cinnabar not only calms the heart and mind, clears heat and detoxifies, and brightens the eyes, but also promotes blood circulation, relieves restlessness and thirst, benefits the spirit, nourishes the facial skin, eliminates abdominal pain due to evil, and treats various sores and rashes. It can also treat mania, palpitations, restlessness, insomnia, dizziness, blurred vision, swelling and poison, sores, and eczema. It nourishes the spirit, soothes the soul, boosts energy, and brightens the eyes.
- In Buddhist culture, cinnabar is often made into Buddhist beads and prayer beads for use during Buddhist chanting. It can calm the mind, stabilize the spirit, concentrate the mind, and enhance wisdom. It is an essential mascot for Buddhists. In Taoist culture, cinnabar is said to be a divine substance full of immortal energy, often used for exorcising ghosts, drawing talismans, opening light, and refining elixirs. It can ward off evil, eliminate disasters, cut demons, and enhance immortal energy.
Cinnabar is a very good item, belonging to the hexagonal crystal vein. There are many things to pay attention to during the collection process, and refining it faces many difficulties. Therefore, cinnabar Buddhist beads can be said to have a high value. Wearing these cinnabar-made Buddhist beads can be said to have many benefits. Since ancient times, cinnabar has been considered a very auspicious item, known as the best mascot, with very good effects, especially in protecting people’s safety and warding off evil, which is very prominent.
Wearing cinnabar Buddhist beads often can make the beads more spiritual, which can better protect people’s safety. Wearing these beads and chanting scriptures often, and being influenced, will make the beads have better effects. Since ancient times, it has been the best product for protecting the body and safety, warding off evil, and breaking evil spirits. It can be said to be very good.
However, this kind of Buddhist bead can be said to be sought but not easily found. The best cinnabar Buddhist beads are very rare, and it is not so easy to buy. But if there is a fate, it must be possible to get this Buddhist bead. Wearing it often, there will be great benefits.