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.
Shantou root
This product is the dry root and rhizome of the leguminous plant Huaihua japonica. It has a beany smell and a very bitter taste. It is better to taste bitter. raw use.
[properties of medicine] bitter, cold; poisonous. Return lung, stomach warp.
[Efficacy] Clearing away heat and detoxification, reducing swelling and relieving sore throat.
【application】
1. Accumulation of fire and poison, sore throat of milk moth, sore throat
This product is bitter and cold, and its function is good at clearing lung fire, detoxifying heat, relieving throat and reducing swelling. It is an important medicine for treating sore throat, redness and pain of throat caused by accumulation of fire and poison.
2. Gum swelling and pain, mouth sores
This product is bitter and cold, enters the stomach meridian, and clears stomach fire, so it can be used for gingival swelling and pain and aphtha of the tongue caused by stomach fire attack, and can be used alone to rinse the mouth with decoction.
In addition, this product can also be used for damp-heat jaundice, lung-heat cough, carbuncle sore and other syndromes.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 3~6g. Appropriate amount for external use.
【Caution for use】This product is bitter, cold and poisonous. Overdose is prone to side effects such as vomiting, diarrhea, chest tightness, and heart palpitations.
[Accompanying medicine] Northern bean root
This product is the dried rhizome of Bat Pueraria japonica. Bitter cold in nature and flavor, slightly poisonous; returns lung, stomach, large intestine meridian. Function heat-clearing and toxic substances removing, expelling wind and relieving pain. It is used for heat-toxin congestion, sore throat, heat-toxin diarrhea and rheumatic arthralgia. Decoction, 3~9g. The dosage of this product should not be too large, and it is not suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency.
