Warming medicine
Drugs that have the main effect of warming the interior and dispelling cold are commonly used to treat interior cold syndrome, and are called warming herbs, also known as dispelling cold medicine.
This type of medicine is pungent in taste and warm in nature. It is pungent in nature and can be dispersed and dissipated. It is warm and unblockable. It is good at moving through the internal organs and can warm the inside and dispel cold. It can warm the menstrual flow and relieve pain. Therefore, it can be used to treat internal cold syndrome, especially internal cold syndrome. That is what the "Nei Jing" says "cold is treated with heat" and the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" means "cold is treated with hot medicine". Some medicines can still help and restore yang, and are used to treat deficiency and cold syndrome and yang deficiency syndrome.
Warming medicines have various effects depending on their main meridians. Mainly entering the spleen and stomach meridian, it can warm the middle and dispel cold and relieve pain. It can be used to treat the invasion of external cold and the syndrome of direct spleen and stomach or spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. Symptoms include cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea, pale tongue with white coating, or accompanied by mental fatigue, Tired limbs, poor diet, etc.; Mainly enters the lung meridian, it can warm the lungs and dissolve fluids, and is used to treat cold lungs and phlegm syndrome, with symptoms such as phlegm and cough, wheezing, white and thin phlegm, pale tongue with slippery coating, etc.; Mainly enters the liver meridian. If it mainly enters the kidney meridian, it can warm the kidney and help yang, and it can be used to treat kidney yang deficiency syndrome, where the symptoms are yang. Cold fistulas in the uterus, cold pain in the waist and knees, frequent nocturia, semen enuresis, etc.; mainly enters the heart and kidney meridians, can warm the yang and unblock the meridians, and is used to treat heart and kidney yang deficiency syndrome, with symptoms such as palpitations, chills, cold limbs, difficulty in urination, Swelling of the limbs, etc.; or it can be used to restore Yang and relieve inverse symptoms, and treat inverse symptoms of Yang deficiency. Symptoms include aversion to cold, fatigue in lying down, sweating, inverse limbs, weak and weak pulse, etc.
The use of warm medicine should be appropriately combined according to different syndromes.
This type of medicine is pungent, hot, and strong, and can easily damage Yin and activate Fire. Therefore, the dosage should be reduced when the weather is hot or if the body's Fire is strong. If the heat lies inside, the heat will be deep and deep. It should be contraindicated in cases of true heat and false cold. It should be contraindicated in cases of excessive heat. , Yin deficiency, excessive fire, and body fluid and blood deficiency should not be used; pregnant women should use with caution.
dried ginger
It was first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
This product is the dried rhizome of ginger, a plant of the Zingiberaceae family. Those sliced fresh and dried in the sun or at low temperature are called "dried ginger slices". This product has a unique aroma and spicy taste. The ones that are powdery enough and have a strong smell are better. Cut into thick slices or chunks and use raw or stir-fried over charcoal.
[Properties] Pungent, hot. Returns to the spleen, stomach, kidney, heart and lung meridians.
[Efficacy] Warming the middle and dispersing cold, restoring Yang and unblocking the pulse, warming the lungs and transforming into drink.
【application】
1. Cold spleen and stomach syndrome, cold and painful epigastrium and abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea
This product is pungent, hot, dry and strong. It mainly enters the spleen and stomach and is good at warming the middle and dispersing cold. It can strengthen the spleen yang and "treat abdominal pain caused by cold". It is the main medicine for warming the middle scorch.
2. Yang deficiency syndrome, cold limbs and weak pulse
This product is pungent and hot, enters the heart, spleen, and kidney meridians, and has the effect of warming the yang head and middle, restoring yang and unblocking the meridians. It is used to treat heart and kidney yang deficiency, yang deficiency syndrome caused by yin-cold internal excess, retrograde limbs, and weak pulse. It should be used in combination with Aconite. Just as "Materia Medica Seeking Truth" says: "Dried ginger is very hot and non-toxic. Keep it without leaving. If there is coldness in the stomach and Yuan Yang is exhausted, combine it with Aconite and cast it together, it can restore the Yang and take immediate effect." There is no saying that Aconite is not as hot as ginger.”
3. Cough due to cold drink
This product is pungent and hot, enters the lung meridian, and is good at warming the lungs, dispersing cold and transforming fluids. Treats symptoms of asthma and cough due to cold drink, cold body, cold back, excessive phlegm and thin phlegm.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction and take, 3~10g.
[Usage Precautions] This product is pungent, hot and dry, and should not be used by those with internal heat due to yin deficiency or blood heat.
