Rheumatism
All the medicines that are mainly used to dispel the evil of rheumatism and are commonly used to treat rheumatic arthralgia are called rheumatism dispelling medicines.
This kind of medicine has a bitter taste and is warm or cool in nature. Xinneng San can work, which can dispel the evil of rheumatism and open the obstruction of meridians; the bitter taste dries dampness, so that the evil of rheumatism does not remain. Therefore, this class of drugs can dispel the evil of rheumatism remaining in the muscles, meridians, and bones, and some of them also have the functions of relaxing tendons, promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals, relieving pain, or nourishing liver and kidney, and strengthening bones and muscles. Mainly used for rheumatism arthralgia pain in limbs, unfavorable joints, swelling, contracture of tendons and other diseases. Some drugs are also suitable for soreness of the waist and knees, flaccidity and weakness of the lower limbs, etc.
Rheumatism-dispelling medicines are divided into three categories: wind-damp-dampness-dispelling medicines, rheumatism-heat-dispelling medicines, and wind-damp-dampness-strengthening medicines according to their medicinal properties and efficacy. It is respectively suitable for wind-cold-damp arthralgia, rheumatism-heat arthralgia, and those with long-term arthralgia syndrome and weak muscles and bones.
Rheumatism-dispelling herbs that are pungent, warm and dry in nature can easily injure yin and consume blood, so those with deficiency of yin and blood should be used with caution.
Arthralgia syndrome is mostly a chronic disease. For convenience, it can be made into wine or pill powder, and wine can "help the medicine's potency and promote blood circulation" and enhance the efficacy of rheumatism medicine. It can also be made into a dosage form for external application and used directly on the affected area.
Rheumatism-dispelling and bone-strengthening medicine
The medicines in this section mainly enter the Liver and Kidney meridian, besides dispelling wind-dampness, they also have the functions of nourishing the liver and kidney, and strengthening bones and muscles. Long-term rheumatism will easily damage the liver and kidney; liver and kidney deficiency, wind-cold-damp pathogens will easily infect the waist and knees, so the selection of medicines in this section has the significance of strengthening the body and eliminating pathogens, and taking care of both symptoms and symptoms. It can also be used for kidney deficiency, low back pain, bone flaccidity, and weakness.
dog ridge
It was first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
This product is the dry rhizome of the clamshell fern plant Golden Retriever Ridge. Excavated in autumn and winter, remove the silt, and dry; or remove the hard roots, petioles and golden fluff, cut into thick slices, and dry, called "raw dog spine slices"; after steaming, sun-dried until 60% to 70% dry, cut into thick slices , dry, as "cooked dog ridge slices". Odorless, light taste, slightly astringent. The slices are uniform in thickness, solid, and hairless. For raw or sand scalding.
[properties of medicine] bitter, sweet, warm. Return liver, kidney channel.
[Efficacy] Dispelling rheumatism, nourishing the liver and kidney, strengthening the waist and knees.
【application】
1. Rheumatic arthralgia
The bitter temperature of this product can dissipate wind-cold-damp evil, sweet-warm to nourish the liver and kidney, strengthen the waist and knees, and strengthen the bones and muscles. .
2. Soreness of waist and knees, weakness of lower limbs
This product nourishes the liver and kidneys, strengthens the waist and knees, and can be used to treat liver and kidney deficiency, soreness of the waist and knees, and weakness of the lower limbs.
3. Kidney deficiency, enuresis, frequent urination, vaginal discharge
This product also has the function of warming and strengthening. Treatment of enuresis and frequent urination due to insufficiency of the kidney;
In addition, the hair of the dog's ridge has a hemostatic effect, and external application can be used for golden sore bleeding.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 6~12g.
[Cautions for use] Use with caution in patients with kidney deficiency, fever, difficulty urinating, or short-colored yellow and red.
