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.
Tuckahoe
This product is the dried rhizome of Smilax glabra (báqiā) of Liliaceae plant. Slight gas, slight taste, astringent. It is better to have large powder, less veins, and light brown cut surface. raw use.
[properties of medicine] sweet, light, flat. Return liver, stomach warp.
[Efficacy] Detoxification, dehumidification, tonic joints.
【application】
1. Limb spasms, muscle and bone pain caused by syphilis and mercury poisoning
This product is sweet and light, detoxifies and dampness, promotes joint benefit, and also detoxifies, so it can be used to treat syphilis or those who suffer from limb spasms and pain in muscles and bones due to syphilis taking mercury poisoning.
2. Damp-heat turbidity, leukorrhea, scabies, eczema itching
This product is sweet and light, oozing benefits, detoxification and dampness, suitable for hot stranguria, vaginal discharge, scabies, eczema, and eczema caused by damp heat.
3. Carbuncle, scrofula
This product clears heat and detoxifies, reduces swelling and dissipates stagnation. To treat sores, carbuncles, redness, swelling and ulceration, grind this product into fine powder and apply it with vinegar; to treat scrofula and ulceration, slice or powder this product in "Jidetang Experience Prescription", decoct it in water or eat it in porridge, and it is also often used with it Use with other medicines.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 15~60g. Appropriate amount for external use.
[Cautions for use] Use with caution in patients with liver and kidney yin deficiency. Do not drink tea while taking the medicine.
