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.
Kochia
It was first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
This product is the dry ripe fruit of Kochia scoparia of Chenopodiaceae. Slight gas, slightly bitter taste. The ones that are plump and gray-green in color are better. raw use.
【Medical Properties】 Pungent, bitter, cold. Returns to the kidney and bladder meridians.
[Efficacy] Clear away heat and dampness, dispel wind and relieve itching.
【application】
1. Difficulty urinating, astringent and painful discharge
This product is bitter and cold and relieves diarrhea, can clear away dampness and heat and treat stranguria, so it can be used for symptoms of dampness and heat in the bladder, difficulty in urinating, and astringent and painful phlegm.
2. Vaginal itching, rubella, eczema, itchy skin
This product can remove damp heat and wind evil in the skin and relieve itching. Treatment of rubella, eczema, itchy skin; damp heat in the lower burner, damp itching due to external causes; damp and tropical heat.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction and take, 9~15g. Appropriate amount for external use, decoction and fumigation.
