Shi Gao Powder, unsulfured Gypsum fibrosum mineral Plum Flower500 g/bag

Shi Gao Powder is unsulfured Gypsum fibrosum, an actual mineral ground to a powder, sold by the 500 gram bag under the Plum Flower brand.

Start with the word powder, because that's the part worth sitting with. (This is a rock that got ground down. It came out of the ground as a stone, hard and patient and entirely uninterested in being anything else, and somebody put it through a grinder until it poured. So now it's a rock you can measure with a spoon. The stone lost the argument with the mill, and the upside is you don't have to fight the stone yourself.) Gypsum fibrosum is the mineral, if you can call a rock a mineral, and herbalists have leaned on it in traditional preparations for a very long time.

Now look at the word unsulfured, because it's a small promise on the label. (Unsulfured means they didn't add the sulfur. Which is a funny thing to promise about gypsum, because gypsum already is calcium sulfate, so the sulfur showed up early and never left. What they mean is they didn't bolt on any extra. The powder is exactly as much mineral as it was the day it came out of the ground, just smaller now.)

Why People Keep It Around

• Shi Gao Powder, unsulfured Gypsum fibrosum mineral, 500 g/bag (SKU 739934259054)
• Plum Flower brand, traditional bulk mineral sourced from China
• Ground to a powder, so it's ready to measure straight from the bag
• Unsulfured, so nothing got added that wasn't already in the stone
• A genuine mineral, not an herb, for use in traditional preparations
• Promotes overall daily wellness as part of a balanced routine
• May support a calm, balanced feeling when used in traditional formulas
• A generous 500 gram bag for steady, ongoing use

How to Use It

Prepare it the way your tradition or practitioner intends, whether that's a decoction, a long simmer, or a careful blend with the other items in your formula. That's the idea. (The powder does nothing in the bag, which is the part people forget. It can't simmer itself. It can't decide it's needed. It waits on a person with a plan and a pot, which is the only thing a ground-up rock has ever been good at. The using was always the point, not the owning.)

It pairs naturally with a steady wellness routine, the herbs you already keep, and the unhurried patience that traditional preparations tend to ask for. Minerals usually want a longer cook than the soft green things, so give it the time the recipe asks for, even in powder form. Keep the bag sealed between uses, store it somewhere cool and dry, away from the damp, since a powder holds onto moisture faster than a whole stone would and you'd rather it didn't. For a rock that spent its whole existence underground and then got ground down to a pourable pile, all it asks is that you actually put it in the pot. That's a fair trade.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.