Diuretic and dampness-removing medicine
Drugs whose main functions are to unblock water channels and seep out water and dampness, and are often used to treat the syndrome of internal water-dampness, are called medicines for diluting water and expelling dampness.
This type of medicine tastes mostly sweet and bland or bitter, and is mainly directed to the bladder, small intestine, kidney, and spleen meridians. Its effects tend to be downward. The bland ones can penetrate and benefit, while the bitter ones can reduce diarrhea. This type of medicine has the effects of diuresis and swelling, diuresis and stranguria, diuresis and jaundice reduction.
The diuretic and dampness-removing medicines are mainly used to treat various diseases caused by water-dampness such as edema, difficulty in urination, diarrhea, phlegm, stranguria, jaundice, eczema, vaginal discharge, dampness and warmth. When using diuretic and dampness-removing drugs, the corresponding drugs must be selected according to different disease syndromes, and the appropriate combinations must be made.
Diuretic and dampness-removing drugs are easy to consume and damage body fluids. They should be used with caution or avoid use for those with yin deficiency and insufficient body fluids, kidney deficiency, spermatorrhea and enuresis. Some drugs have strong tonic effects and should be used with caution by pregnant women.
According to the different properties and main effects of diuretic and dampness-removing drugs, they are divided into three categories: diuretic and swelling drugs, diuretic and stranguria drugs, and diuretic and anti-jaundice drugs.
Dampness-reducing and jaundice-reducing medicine
This type of medicine has a bitter and cold nature and taste, and mainly enters the spleen, stomach, liver, and gallbladder meridians. Bitter cold can clear away dampness and heat, so it has the main functions of clearing away dampness and heat, promoting gallbladder and reducing jaundice. It is mainly used for damp-heat jaundice, with symptoms such as yellow eyes, yellow body, yellow urine, etc. The clinical syndrome can be matched according to the different emphasis on dampness, heat and cold-dampness of Yang Huang and Yin Huang.
Knotweed
It was first recorded in "Bielu of Famous Doctors".
This product is the dried rhizome and root of Polygonum cuspidatum. Slight gas, slightly bitter taste, astringent. It is better to cut the yellow one. raw use.
[properties of medicine] bitter, slightly cold. Returns to the liver, gallbladder, and lung meridians.
[Effects] Diuretic dampness and reduce jaundice, clear away heat and detoxify, dissipate blood stasis and relieve pain, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.
【application】
1. Damp-heat jaundice, stranguria, leukorrhea
This product is bitter and cold, and has the function of clearing heat and promoting dampness. It can be used alone to decoct or take it in combination to treat damp-heat jaundice.
2. Carbuncle sores, water and fire burns, poisonous snake bites
This product enters the blood system and has the effect of cooling blood and detoxifying heat. To treat carbuncle, swollen and sore caused by accumulation of heat and toxin on the skin, use Polygonum cuspidatum root to burn ashes and paste, or decoct soup to wash the affected area; if burns and scalds cause burning pain in the skin or interstitial skin or yellow water after ulceration, use powdered powder alone, mixed with sesame oil For application, it can also be used in combination to adjust and apply to the affected area; if it is used to treat poisonous snake bites, it can be smashed fresh and applied to the affected area, or it can be decocted into thick soup and taken orally.
3. Amenorrhea, lump in the abdomen, rheumatic arthralgia, bruises
This product has the function of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. Control amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, etc. due to blood stasis.
4. Lung heat cough
This product can not only relieve bitterness and expel heat, but also reduce phlegm and relieve cough, and treat cough due to lung heat. It can be decocted or taken alone or in combination.
In addition, this product also has the effect of purging heat and laxative, which can be used for constipation due to heat knot.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction and take, 9~15g. Appropriate amount for external use, made into decoction or ointment for application.
[Notes] Pregnant women should use with caution.
