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.
wooden pass
It was first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
This product is the dried cane of Akebia, Akebia trifolia or Akebia sibirica. The smell is slight and the taste is slightly bitter and astringent. The cut surface is yellow-white and has radial patterns. raw use.
[properties of medicine] bitter, cold. Guixin, small intestine, bladder meridian.
[Efficacy] Diuretic and relieve stranguria, clear the heart and eliminate troubles, stimulate menstruation and release breast milk.
【application】
1. Drenching syndrome, edema
This product can be a diuretic and relieve stranguria, causing the evils of dampness and heat to descend and be excreted from the urine. Treats bladder dampness and heat, short red urine, stranguria and pain, and edema.
2. Upset, red urine, sores on mouth and tongue
It tastes bitter and cold, has a tonifying and clearing property. It can clear the fire of the heart meridian and relieve the heat of the small intestine. It is often used to treat inflammation of the heart fire, sores on the mouth and tongue, or upset stomach and red urine caused by the heart fire moving down to the small intestine.
3. Amenorrhoea, scanty breasts, damp-heat numbness and pain
This product enters the blood and can stimulate menstruation and release breast milk. It is used to treat blood stasis, amenorrhea, lack of milk or obstruction, diuretic blood vessels, unblock joints, and treat damp-heat paralysis.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 3~6g.
【Usage Note】Use with caution by pregnant women. It should not be taken for a long time or in large amounts.
【Attached medicine】Chuan Mutong
This product is the dried cane of Akebia or Hydrangea vine of the Ranunculaceae family. Bitter in nature and flavor, cold; Guixin, small intestine, bladder meridian. Functions: diuresis and treating stranguria, clearing the heart and removing troubles, promoting menstruation and lowering breast milk. It is suitable for stranguria syndrome, edema, upset, red urine, mouth and tongue sores, amenorrhea, lack of breast milk, and damp-heat numbness and pain. Decoction, 3~6g. Pregnant women should use with caution; not suitable for long-term or large-scale use.
