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.
Puffball
This product is the dry fruiting body of the fungus Grifolaraceae Puffball Puffball, Big Puffball, or Purple Puffball. Smelly like dust, tasteless. It is better to have thin, plump, loose and elastic skin. raw use.
[properties of medicine] pungent, flat. Return lung meridian.
【Efficacy】Clears the lung, detoxifies the throat, stops bleeding.
【application】
1. Wind-heat stagnation in the lung, sore throat and hoarseness, cough
This taste is pungent and light in quality, enters the lung meridian. It can not only dispel wind-heat in the lung meridian, but also clear the excess fire in the lung meridian. It is good at detoxifying and relieving the throat. It is a commonly used medicine for treating sore throat. Because of its flat nature, it can be used for sore throat regardless of heat toxicity, wind heat or inflammation caused by asthenic fire, and it is especially suitable for wind-heat stagnation of the lung.
2. Epistaxis, wound bleeding
This product has hemostatic effect when used externally. To treat epistaxis and traumatic bleeding, puffball powder can be applied to the affected area. In addition, oral administration also has the function of clearing heat, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It can be used alone or in combination with other cooling blood and hemostatic drugs to treat fire evil that oppresses the lungs, and hematemesis and epistaxis caused by blood heat.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 2~6g. Appropriate amount for external use, apply to the affected area.
[Cautions for use] It is not suitable for people with cough and aphonia due to wind-cold attacking the lungs.
