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.
Pulsatilla
This product is the dried root of Pulsatilla chinensis of Ranunculaceae. Slight gas, slightly bitter taste. It is better to have a light yellow cut surface and white fluff on the root head. raw use.
[properties of medicine] bitter, cold. Return stomach, large intestine channel.
【Efficacy】clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and stopping dysentery.
【application】
1. Toxic heat dysentery
This product is bitter and cold, and enters the large intestine meridian. It can clear heat and detoxify, clear damp heat, dissipate blood stasis and resolve stagnation, cool blood and stop dysentery, and is good at clearing gastrointestinal damp heat and blood heat toxin. It has good curative effect and is a good medicine for treating dysentery.
2. Pruritus leukorrhea
This product is bitter and cold in nature, and has the effect of clearing away heat and dampness. It can also be used to treat vaginal itching and vaginal discharge caused by damp heat in the lower Jiao.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 9~15g.
[Cautions for use] Contraindicated in patients with deficiency cold and diarrhea.
