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.
Leakage
This product is the dry root of Qizhou Loulu, a plant of Compositae. Gas specific, slightly bitter taste. It is better to cut the mask cracks and the color is gray and black. Slice and serve raw.
[properties of medicine] bitter, cold. Return stomach meridian.
【Efficacy】clearing away heat and detoxification, eliminating carbuncle and dissipating stagnation, promoting menstrual flow and breast milk, relaxing muscles and tendons.
【application】
1. Breast abscess swelling and pain, carbuncle hair back, scrofula sore virus
This product has the functions of clearing away heat and detoxifying, dispelling carbuncle and dispelling stagnation, and also has the function of dredging the menstrual flow and lowering the milk, so it is a good medicine for treating mastitis.
2. Breast milk is blocked
This taste is bitter and relieves diarrhea. It has the function of stimulating menstruation and releasing milk. It is a commonly used medicine for postpartum lactation obstruction. Control milk network stagnation, milk retention, breast distending pain, mastitis, less clear milk.
3. Damp arthralgia spasm
This character is good at tonifying and benefiting, and has the function of relaxing muscles and tendons, activating collaterals and dredging channels. Control arthralgia due to dampness and convulsion of tendons and arteries, femoral pain.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 5~9g. For external use, powdered for applying, or decocted for washing.
[Notes] Pregnant women should use with caution.
