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.
green fruit
This product is the dry ripe fruit of olive plant olive. Also known as olives. Broken when used. Slight gas, astringent pulp, slightly sweet after chewing for a long time. The meat is thick, gray-green, and the taste is first astringent and then sweet. raw use.
[properties of medicine] sweet, sour, flat. Return lung, stomach warp.
【Efficacy】clearing heat and detoxifying, relieving sore throat, promoting body fluid.
【application】
1. Sore throat, cough with thick phlegm, hot and thirsty
This taste is sweet and sour to dispel yin, flat and cool in nature to clear away heat, has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting body fluid and relieving throat, and slightly reducing phlegm. It is used to treat sore throat caused by wind-heat attack or heat-toxin accumulation; dry throat, thirsty voice, hoarseness, and cough with sticky phlegm. It can be taken alone with fresh products or in combination with other medicines.
2. Fish and crab poisoning
This taste is sweet and can detoxify fish and crabs. For example, in "Suixiju Diet Spectrum", fresh products are used to squeeze juice or fry thick soup for drinking, and it is used for eating fugu poisoning.
In addition, this product has a certain sobering effect. "Materia Medica Huiyan" uses ten pieces of green fruits alone, decocted and taken for drinking.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 5~10g.
【Accompanied medicine】green fruit
This product is to obtain the dried young fruit of the Junziceae plant Myrobalan. Also known as Tibetan blue fruit. Nature and flavor are bitter, sour, astringent, flat; return lung, large intestine meridian. Function clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, detoxification. Suitable for yin deficiency diphtheria. Decoction, 1.5~3g.
