Heat-clearing medicine
Any medicine that has the main effect of clearing heat and relieving interior heat, and is commonly used to treat interior heat is called heat-clearing medicine.
This type of medicine is cold in nature and settles into the interior. The heat-clearing medicine can clear away the heat in the interior through different functions such as clearing heat and purging fire, clearing heat and dampness, clearing heat and detoxification, clearing heat and cooling blood, and clearing deficiency heat. That is, the principle of "treating heat with cold medicine" in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" in "Neijing".
Heat-clearing medicines are mainly used to treat febrile diseases with high fever and polydipsia, syndromes of excess heat in the lungs, stomach, heart, liver and other viscera, damp-heat diarrhea, damp-heat jaundice, warm-toxin spots, carbuncle sores and swollen toxins, and fever due to yin deficiency.
When using heat-clearing medicines, it is necessary to distinguish the deficiency and excess of heat syndrome.
Most of these medicines have cold and cool properties, which can easily damage the spleen and stomach, so those with weak spleen and stomach, less food and loose stools should be used with caution. Bitter and cold medicines tend to transform dryness and impair yin, and should be used with caution in patients with febrile disease impairing yin or yin deficiency and fluid loss. Heat-clearing medicines are contraindicated in syndromes of excess of yin and excess of yang or true cold and false heat.
According to the differences in properties, efficacy and indications of heat-clearing medicines, heat-clearing medicines can be divided into five categories: heat-clearing and purging medicines, heat-clearing and damp-drying medicines, heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines, heat-clearing and blood-cooling medicines, and deficiency-heat medicines.
Heat-clearing and detoxifying medicine
The nature and flavor of this kind of medicine are mostly bitter and cold, and the main function is to clear away heat and detoxify. Indications for various heat-toxin syndromes, such as sores, carbuncles, furuncles, erysipelas, febrile plaques, sore throat, mumps, diarrhea due to heat-toxins, insect bites, cancer, burns, etc.
This type of medicine is cold and cool in nature, easily injures the spleen and stomach, and will stop the disease immediately, so it should not be taken too much.
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This product is the dry tuberous root of Radix Sinensis Radix. Slight gas, bitter taste. It is better to have a white and powdery face on the cut surface. raw use.
[properties of medicine] bitter, slightly cold. GUIXIN, Stomach Meridian.
【Efficacy】clearing away heat and detoxification, eliminating carbuncle and dissipating stagnation, astringing sores and promoting granulation.
【application】
1. Carbuncle hair back, furuncle, scrofula
This product is bitter and cold clearing away, pungent and loose for reducing swelling, so it has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, eliminating carbuncle and dissipating stagnation, astringing sores and promoting granulation, reducing swelling and relieving pain. It can be used internally or externally.
2. Burns, chapped hands and feet
This product is bitter and cold, and can clear away heat, heat and toxin, and has the functions of astringing sores, promoting granulation and relieving pain. To treat burns and scalds, "Prescription for Emergencies" uses this product alone to grind it into powder and apply it externally; it can also be combined with other medicines.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 5~10g. Appropriate amount for external use, decocted for washing or ground into a very fine powder and applied to the affected area.
[Cautions for use] It should not be used together with Chuanwu, Zhichuanwu, Caowu, Zhicaowu, and aconite.
