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.
Evodia
It was first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
This product is the dried near-ripe fruit of Rutaceae plants Evodia rutaecarpa, Shihu, or Evodia spp. This product has a strong aroma and a bitter and slightly spicy taste. The ones that are plump, green in color and have a strong aroma are better. It can be used raw or prepared with licorice soup.
【Medical Properties】 Pungent, bitter, hot; slightly toxic. Returns to the liver, spleen, stomach and kidney meridians.
[Efficacy] dispelling cold and relieving pain, lowering adverse flow and relieving vomiting, supporting yang and relieving diarrhea.
【application】
1. Cold stagnation of the liver veins, Jueyin headache, abdominal pain during menstruation, cold colic abdominal pain, cold-damp beriberi swelling and pain
This product is pungent and relieves bitterness, heat in nature and dispels cold, and mainly enters the liver meridian. It not only dispels cold pathogens in the liver meridian, but also soothes stagnation of liver qi.
2. Epigastric distension and pain, vomiting and acid swallowing
This product is pungent and relieves bitterness, heat in nature and dispels cold, is good at dispelling cold and relieving pain, can also soothe the liver and relieve depression, reduce adverse reactions and stop vomiting, and can also control acid and relieve pain.
3. Deficiency of spleen and kidney yang, diarrhea before dawn
This product is pungent and hot in nature, can warm the spleen and kidney, help yang and relieve diarrhea, and is a commonly used medicine for treating spleen and kidney yang deficiency and diarrhea at dawn.
In addition, using this product as the end vinegar and applying it on the foot heart (Yongquan point) can cure aphtha, and it is also used to treat hypertension in modern clinical practice.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction and take, 2~5g. Appropriate amount for external use.
[Cautions for use] This product is pungent, hot and dry, easy to consume gas and get angry, so it is not suitable for multi-use or long-term use. It should not be used by those with yin deficiency and heat. Pregnant women should use with caution.
