Moisture medicine
Any medicine that smells fragrant, is warm and dry in nature, and has the main function of dispelling dampness and invigorating the spleen is called dampness dispelling medicine.
The spleen likes dryness and dislikes dampness, "soil likes warmth and likes fragrance". This kind of medicine is pungent and warm-drying, and it mainly enters the spleen and stomach meridians. The aromatic products can wake up the spleen and remove dampness, and the warm-drying medicines can dry dampness and strengthen the brand. At the same time, its acridity can promote qi, its fragrance can ventilate, and can activate the qi mechanism of the middle burner to relieve the pathogenesis of stagnation of spleen and stomach qi caused by dampness. In addition, some medicines also have the functions of relieving heat and warding off filth.
Dampness-resolving medicines are mainly applicable to diseases such as internal resistance of damp turbidity, spleen dampness, and abnormal transportation and transformation, such as fullness in the abdomen and abdomen, vomiting with pantothenic acid, loose stools, lack of food and body fatigue, sweet mouth and excessive salivation, and white and greasy tongue coating. In addition, some medicines can also be used for dampness-temperature and summer-heat-dampness syndromes.
When using dampness-resolving medicines, proper compatibility and application should be carried out according to different conditions and concurrent syndromes of dampness. Such as dampness stagnation of qi, epigastric distention, fullness and stuffiness, it is often compatible with qi-promoting drugs; such as dampness resistance with cold dampness, cold pain in the abdomen, it can be compatible with warming and dispelling cold medicine; such as spleen deficiency dampness, abdominal pain For those with poor appetite and mental fatigue, it is often used in combination with Qi-invigorating and spleen-invigorating drugs; if it is used for damp-warm, damp-heat, and summer-heat-dampness, it is often used together with products for clearing away heat and dampness, relieving heat, and promoting dampness.
Dampness-removing medicines are aromatic and contain volatile oils. They are usually taken as powders for better curative effect. If they are put into decoctions, they should be taken after decoction, and should not be decocted for a long time, so as to avoid the loss of volatile active ingredients and reduce the curative effect; most of these medicines are pungent and fragrant. Dry products tend to consume qi and damage yin, so those with yin deficiency, blood dryness and qi deficiency should use it with caution.
Atractylodes
It was first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
This product is the dry rhizome of Atractylodes atractylodes or Atractylodes atractylodes, a perennial herb of Compositae. Those produced in Maoshan, Jiangsu are of the best quality, hence the name Mao Cangzhu. Mao Atractylodes has a specific aroma, slightly sweet, pungent, and bitter taste; Northern Atractylodes has a lighter aroma, pungent, and bitter. It is better to have a lot of cinnabar on the cut surface and a strong aroma. Used raw or fried with bran (fū).
[properties of medicine] pungent, bitter, warm. Return spleen, stomach, liver channel.
[Efficacy] Drying dampness and invigorating the spleen, expelling wind and cold, improving eyesight.
【application】
1. Damp resistance in the middle burner, abdominal fullness, diarrhea, edema
This product is bitter and warm to dry dampness to dispel damp turbidity, and spicy to invigorate the spleen to harmonize the spleen and stomach. It is most suitable for diseases such as damp resistance in the middle burner, spleen dysfunction, abdominal distension, nausea, lack of appetite, vomiting and diarrhea, and white and greasy tongue coating. It is often compatible with Magnolia officinalis and Chenpi, such as Pingwei Powder square"). If it is used together with Poria, Alisma, Polyporus and other diuretic and dampness-reducing medicines, it can treat spleen deficiency and damp accumulation, phlegm retention due to internal water dampness, diarrhea or edema caused by overflow.
2. Rheumatic arthralgia, beriberi flaccidity (bì)
This product is pungent, bitter and dry, and good at dispelling dampness, so it is especially suitable for those with arthralgia syndrome and dampness.
3. Anemofrigid cold
This product is pungent and dry, and can open the muscles and stimulate sweating to dispel the wind-cold exterior evils on the skin surface. Because it is good at overcoming dampness, it is most suitable for those with wind-cold exterior syndrome and dampness.
4. Night blindness, dim eyesight
This product can still improve eyesight and is used for night blindness and dim eyesight. It can be used alone, or eaten together with steamed lamb liver and pork liver.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 3~9g.
[Drugs for identification] Atractylodes atractylodes, Huoxiang, and Peilan are all aromatizing dampness-removing medicines, which have the power of removing dampness, and are used for damp-resisting middle-burn syndrome. However, Atractylodes atractylodis is bitter, warm and dry, and can dry dampness and invigorate the spleen. It is not only suitable for dampness resistance, but also can be used for other syndromes of excessive dampness. The syndrome of dampness evil trapping the spleen.
