Warming medicine
Drugs that have the main effect of warming the interior and dispelling cold are commonly used to treat interior cold syndrome, and are called warming herbs, also known as dispelling cold medicine.
This type of medicine is pungent in taste and warm in nature. It is pungent in nature and can be dispersed and dissipated. It is warm and unblockable. It is good at moving through the internal organs and can warm the inside and dispel cold. It can warm the menstrual flow and relieve pain. Therefore, it can be used to treat internal cold syndrome, especially internal cold syndrome. That is what the "Nei Jing" says "cold is treated with heat" and the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" means "cold is treated with hot medicine". Some medicines can still help and restore yang, and are used to treat deficiency and cold syndrome and yang deficiency syndrome.
Warming medicines have various effects depending on their main meridians. Mainly entering the spleen and stomach meridian, it can warm the middle and dispel cold and relieve pain. It can be used to treat the invasion of external cold and the syndrome of direct spleen and stomach or spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. Symptoms include cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea, pale tongue with white coating, or accompanied by mental fatigue, Tired limbs, poor diet, etc.; Mainly enters the lung meridian, it can warm the lungs and dissolve fluids, and is used to treat cold lungs and phlegm syndrome, with symptoms such as phlegm and cough, wheezing, white and thin phlegm, pale tongue with slippery coating, etc.; Mainly enters the liver meridian. If it mainly enters the kidney meridian, it can warm the kidney and help yang, and it can be used to treat kidney yang deficiency syndrome, where the symptoms are yang. Cold fistulas in the uterus, cold pain in the waist and knees, frequent nocturia, semen enuresis, etc.; mainly enters the heart and kidney meridians, can warm the yang and unblock the meridians, and is used to treat heart and kidney yang deficiency syndrome, with symptoms such as palpitations, chills, cold limbs, difficulty in urination, Swelling of the limbs, etc.; or it can be used to restore Yang and relieve inverse symptoms, and treat inverse symptoms of Yang deficiency. Symptoms include aversion to cold, fatigue in lying down, sweating, inverse limbs, weak and weak pulse, etc.
The use of warm medicine should be appropriately combined according to different syndromes.
This type of medicine is pungent, hot, and strong, and can easily damage Yin and activate Fire. Therefore, the dosage should be reduced when the weather is hot or if the body's Fire is strong. If the heat lies inside, the heat will be deep and deep. It should be contraindicated in cases of true heat and false cold. It should be contraindicated in cases of excessive heat. , Yin deficiency, excessive fire, and body fluid and blood deficiency should not be used; pregnant women should use with caution.
Aconite
It was first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
This product is a processed product of the seeds of Aconitum, a plant of the Ranunculaceae family. Mainly produced in Sichuan. It is excavated from late June to early August, and the mother roots, fibrous roots and sediment are removed. It is commonly called "mud aconite" and processed into salt aconite, black aconite slices (Heishun slices) and white aconite slices. Salt aconite has a slight odor, a salty and numb taste, and is tingling on the tongue; it is best if it is large, heavy, gray-black in color, and has salt frost on its surface. Black Fu Pian (Heishun Pian) has a slight odor and a light taste; the skin is dark brown and the cut surface is oily and shiny. Baifu slices have a slight odor and light taste; the ones with large slices, yellow-white color, oily and translucent ones are better. The processed decoction pieces include black pieces, white pieces, light pieces, and pao pieces.
[Properties] Pungent, sweet, hot, toxic. Guixin, kidney, spleen channel.
【Efficacy】Restore yang and relieve adversity, replenish fire and yang, dispel cold and relieve pain.
【application】
1. Exhaustion of Yang, cold limbs and weak pulse
This product can help the heart yang at the upper level, warm the spleen yang at the middle level, and tonify the kidney yang at the lower level. It is the "first-class medicine for restoring yang and relieving adverse events". "Compendium of Materia Medica" states that "for those who have symptoms of yang deficiency and yin pole, and no heat syndrome in the lungs and kidneys, taking it has the special effect of inducing death." It can be used to treat long-term physical weakness, weak yang energy, excessive yin and cold, or profuse sweating, Yang syndrome caused by vomiting and diarrhea, rebellious extremities, faint pulse.
2. Deficiency of kidney yang, impotence, cold uterus, vomiting and diarrhea due to deficiency cold, cold pain in the abdomen, edema due to yin cold, deficiency of heart yang, cold pain in the chest, exogenous pathogenic factors due to yang deficiency
This product is pungent, sweet and warm, and has the effect of replenishing yang, replenishing fire and eliminating yin. "Compendium of Materia Medica" calls it "the main medicine of Mingmen". It is suitable for those who have weak yang in the kidneys, spleen and heart, and excessive yin and cold in the body. , can be applied.
3. Cold-damp arthralgia
This product is masculine and vigorous, walks but does not guard, can warm the meridians and dredge the collaterals, drive away the pathogenic wind, cold and dampness in the meridians, so it has a strong effect of dispelling cold and relieving pain. "Materia Medica Huiyan" calls it "a strong medicine for joint joints", and "Materia Medica Zhengyi" calls it "the key medicine for clearing the twelve meridians and pure yang". It can be used for those who have joint pain all over the body due to wind-cold-damp arthralgia, especially those who are good at treating cold arthralgia and severe pain.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 3~15g; decoct first, and decoct for a long time, until no spicy feeling in the mouth.
[Cautions for use] This product is pungent, hot and dry, so it should be used with caution by pregnant women. It should not be used together with Pinellia ternata, Trichosanthes trichosanthes, Trichosanthes trichosanthes peel, Trichosanthes trichosanthes seeds, Trichosanthes trichosanthes, Fritillaria chuanensis, Fritillaria fritillaris, Fritillaria fritillaris, Fritillaria sibirica, Fritillaria sibirica, Fritillaria leucophylla, Fritillaria leucophylla. Raw products are for external use and must be processed for internal use. If taken internally too much, or processed or decocted improperly, it can cause poisoning, and severe cases can cause death.
