The invention relates to the field of polarized light detectionand particularly relates to a method for identifying mineral drugs based on a
polarized light microscopy technology. The method comprisesthe following steps of (1) putting mineral
medicine with the thickness of 1-2mm on a coarse
grinding stone, adding a proper amount of water, and
grinding the mineral
medicine back and forth on the coarse
grinding stone until the two sides are ground to be smooth and the thickness is 0.2-0.9 mm; (2) transferring the mineral
medicine ground in the step (1) to a fine grinding stone, adding the water, grinding the mineral medicine back and forth till the mineral medicine is transparent, washing the ground mineral medicine with water, treating the ground mineral medicine with
ethanol, and fillingthe ground mineral medicine with a glyceryl
ethanol test solution; and (3) putting the
abrasive disc prepared in the step (2) under a polarized light
microscope with a compensator, setting the angle of semi-polarized light, and shooting under a 10-time objective lens by adopting a large-
image splicing technology in combination with a real-time depth-of-field extended
imaging technology to obtain
color image data. According to the method, the birefringent mineral structure can be accurately positioned, and the multi-color property of
anisotropy of structures of different parts of the mineral under polarized light is fully displayed.