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.
cumin
It was first recorded in "New Materia Medica".
This product is the dried and mature fruit of fennel, an Umbelliferae plant. The smell is slightly fragrant and the taste is spicy. The ones with large and plump grains, yellow-green color and strong aroma are the best. Use raw or broiled in salt water.
[Properties] Pungent, warm. Returns to the liver, kidney, spleen and stomach meridians.
[Efficacy] Dispel cold, relieve pain, regulate qi and stomach.
【application】
1. Cold hernia, abdominal pain, testicular swelling and pain, dysmenorrhea, cold and pain in lower abdomen
This product is pungent and warm, can warm the kidneys and liver, dispel cold and relieve pain. It is used to treat cold hernia and abdominal pain; it can also be used to stir-fry and wrap the abdomen with cloth to warm it. It can be used to treat stagnation of liver qi, swollen and painful testicles; it can be used to treat cold pain in the lower abdomen caused by cold in the liver meridian, or dysmenorrhea caused by Chong Ren deficiency and cold.
2. Deficiency of the spleen and stomach, cold qi stagnation, abdominal distension and pain, vomiting and diarrhea after eating less
This product is pungent and warm, can warm the body, dispel cold and relieve pain, and regulates spleen and stomach qi to whet the appetite and stop vomiting. "Compendium of Materia Medica" calls it "a medicine that warms the middle and quickens the qi". It can be used to treat abdominal distension and pain caused by cold and qi stagnation in the stomach; it can be used to treat abdominal distension and pain due to spleen and stomach deficiency, vomiting and less food.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction and take, 3~6g. Appropriate amount for external use.
【Usage Note】Use with caution in those with yin deficiency and excessive fire.
[Additional medicine] Star anise
This product is the dried and mature fruit of the star anise plant of the Magnoliaceae family. Also known as anise and star anise. Use raw or sauteed in salt water. It is pungent and warm in nature and belongs to the liver, kidney, spleen and stomach meridians. Function: Warming yang, dispersing cold, regulating qi and relieving pain. It is suitable for cold hernia and abdominal pain, kidney deficiency, low back pain, and epigastric and abdominal cold pain. Decoct and take, 3~6g.
