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.
Brucea javanica
This product is the dry and mature fruit of the bitter plant Bructus javanica. Slight gas, extremely bitter taste. It is better to have large grains, plump, white kernels, and oily enough. raw use.
[properties of medicine] bitter, cold; slightly poisonous. Return large intestine, Liver Channel.
【Efficacy】clearing away heat and detoxification, stopping dysentery, cutting off malaria; corroding warts for external use.
【application】
1. Toxic heat and bloody dysentery, chronic cold dysentery
This product is bitter and cold, can clear away heat and detoxify, especially good at clearing accumulated heat in the large intestine, cooling blood and stopping dysentery, so it can be used to treat heat-toxin bloody dysentery, fecal pus and blood, and tenesmus. Such as "Medical Complaints in Chinese and Western Records" only use this product to peel off the skin, and take it with sugar water. This product also has the function of drying dampness, killing insects and stopping dysentery. It can be used in combination with oral administration and enema for treating cold-accumulated chronic dysentery.
2. Malaria
The bitter cold of this product enters the liver meridian, can clear the liver and gallbladder, dampness and heat, and has the function of killing insects and cutting off malaria, so it can be used for various types of malaria, especially for vivax malaria and malaria malaria, and is also effective for falciparum malaria.
3. Wart corns
This product is corrosive for external use. For the treatment of warts and corns, it is desirable to mash Brucea javanica kernels and apply to the affected area, or use Brucea javanica oil for local application. To treat corns, you can mash Brucea javanica kernels and white wine and apply it to the affected area, and then fix it with adhesive tape; "Medical Compositions of Chinese and Western Records" also use the law to treat warts.
【Usage and Dosage】For oral administration, 0.5~2g, wrapped with longan meat or put into capsules for swallowing, or pressed to remove oil to make pills and tablets, not decoction. Appropriate amount for external use.
[Cautions for use] This product is harmful to the gastrointestinal tract, liver and kidney, and the dose should be strictly controlled for oral administration, and it is not suitable for long-term use. For external use, protect the surrounding normal skin with adhesive tape to prevent irritation to normal skin. Pregnant women and children should use with caution. Patients with gastrointestinal bleeding and liver and kidney disease should not use it.
