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.
wild chrysanthemum
This product is the dry flower head of Chrysanthemum chrysanthemum. Gas aroma, bitter taste. It is better to be complete, yellow in color and strong in aroma. raw use.
[properties of medicine] bitter, pungent, slightly cold. Return liver, heart channel.
【Efficacy】clearing heat and detoxifying, purging fire and calming liver.
【application】
1. Furnaceous carbuncle, sore throat
This product is pungent and bitter, and has the functions of clearing heat and purging fire, detoxifying and relieving sore throat, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and is a good medicine for treating surgical furuncle. Control heat-toxin accumulation, furuncle erysipelas, carbuncle sores, sore throat.
2. Conjunctival congestion, swelling and pain, headache and dizziness
This product tastes bitter and enters the liver, clears away liver-fire; tastes pungent and cold, dispels wind-heat, and treats conjunctival congestion, swelling and pain caused by wind-heat attack; this product can clear the liver and calm the liver, and treat hyperactivity of liver-yang, headache and dizziness.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 9~15g. Appropriate amount for external use, decocting for washing or making ointment for external application.
[Drugs for Differentiation] Wild chrysanthemum and chrysanthemum are plants of the same family, both have the merit of clearing away heat and detoxification, but wild chrysanthemum is especially superior in its bitter and cold nature, and is better at detoxifying and eliminating carbuncles, and it is often used for carbuncles and sores; It is better than clearing heat and dispelling wind, and it is often used for wind-heat in Shangjiao head.
