diuresis and dampness 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.
Drugs for promoting diuresis and expelling dampness are easy to consume and damage body fluid. They should be used with caution or should not be used for patients with yin deficiency, less fluid, kidney deficiency, nocturnal emission and enuresis. Some drugs have strong tonic effects and should be used with caution by pregnant women.
According to the differences in properties, efficacy and indications of diuretic and dampness-reducing medicines, they are divided into three categories: diuretic and swelling medicines, diuretic and strangury medicines, and dampness-reducing jaundice medicines.
Diuretics
The nature and flavor of this type of medicine are mostly bitter and cold, or sweet and mildly cold. Bitterness can reduce diarrhea, coldness can clear away heat, and can remove dampness and heat in the lower Jiao. It has the main function of diuresis and treating stranguria, and is mainly used to treat hot stranguria, bloody stranguria, stone stranguria, and ointment stranguria. In clinical practice, corresponding diuretic and stranguriant drugs should be selected according to the condition and appropriately mixed to improve the efficacy.
mallow seeds
It was first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
This product is the dry mature seed of Malvaceae mallow. Slight gas, astringent taste. The ones with full grains and firm texture are better. raw use.
[Medical properties] Sweet, astringent, cool. Returns to the large intestine, small intestine, and bladder meridians.
[Efficacy] Clear heat, diuresis, release breast milk, and moisturize intestines.
【application】
1. Lymphoma, edema, anuria
This product is sweet, cold and slippery, and has the effect of diuresis and treating stranguria. This product is smooth in quality, clears the grid, promotes urination, eliminates edema, and is used for edema, swelling, and difficulty in urinating; it is used to treat the swelling of the grid, and constipation.
2. Lack of milk, breast swelling and pain
This product is smooth and smooth, and has the effect of clearing up breast milk. It is used for postpartum milk blockage and breast swelling and pain.
3. Intestinal dryness and constipation
This quality is lubricating, moistening the intestines and laxative.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction and take, 3~9g.
[Cautions for use] This product is cold and lubricating, and should be used with caution in patients with spleen deficiency and pregnant women.
