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.
blood vine
This product is the dry cane of S. japonica of Akebiae. Also known as red vine. Slight gas, slightly astringent taste. The ones with large slices, firm texture and clear texture are preferred. raw use.
[properties of medicine] bitter, flat. Return large intestine, Liver Channel.
【Efficacy】clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting blood circulation, expelling wind and relieving pain.
【application】
1. Intestinal carbuncle abdominal pain, pyretic sores
This product is bitter and relieves diarrhea, is good at clearing heat and detoxifying, eliminating carbuncle and relieving pain; it mainly returns to the large intestine meridian, and is good at dispelling stasis in the intestine, so it is an essential medicine for treating intestinal abscess, and can also be used for other heat-toxin sores.
2. Blood stagnation, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, tumbling, swelling and pain
This product can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, reduce swelling and relieve pain.
3. Rheumatic arthralgia
This product has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, expelling wind and relieving pain. Control rheumatic arthralgia, pain in the waist and legs, and unfavorable joints.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 9~15g. Appropriate amount for external use.
[Notes] Pregnant women should use with caution.
