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.
Hedyotis diffusa
This product is the dried whole herb of Rubiaceae Hedyotis diffusa. Bitter. Those with many leaves, gray-green color, and flowers and fruits are preferred. raw use.
[properties of medicine] slightly bitter, sweet, cold. Return stomach, large intestine, small intestine channel.
【Efficacy】clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting dampness and treating stranguria.
【application】
1. Carbuncle sores, sore throat, poisonous snake bites
This product is bitter and cold, and has heat-clearing and detoxifying effects. To treat carbuncle, swollen and sore, fresh products can be used alone and mashed for external application, or it can be used in combination with other medicines; if it is used to treat poisonous snake bites, fresh products can be used alone, mashed and wrung juice for oral administration or decoction, and the residue can be applied to wounds. Compatibility with other medicines.
In recent years, this product has been widely used in the treatment of various cancers due to its ability to clear away heat, detoxify and reduce swelling.
2. hot drenching astringent pain
This product is sweet and cold, and has the effect of clearing heat, promoting dampness and treating stranguria. It can be used alone to treat damp-heat in the bladder, stranguria, astringent pain during urination, and it is often used in combination with other medicines.
In addition, this product can not only clear away heat, but also promote dampness, so it can still be used for damp-heat jaundice.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 15~60g. Appropriate amount for external use.
[Cautions for use] It is contraindicated for patients with yin gangrene and spleen and stomach deficiency.
