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 blood-cooling medicine
The nature and flavor of this kind of medicine are mostly sweet, bitter and cold or salty and cold, and they penetrate into the blood part to clear away heat, mostly return to the heart and liver meridian, and have the effect of clearing the nutrient part and the heat evil in the blood part. It is mainly used for excess heat syndromes such as nutrient and blood components. It can also be used for blood heat and bleeding syndrome in internal injuries and miscellaneous diseases. If both qi and blood are burnt (fán), it can be used together with heat-clearing and gunpowder medicine to clear both qi and blood.
buffalo horn
It was first recorded in "Bielu of Famous Doctors".
This product is the horn of buffalo, a bovid animal. The gas is slightly fishy and the taste is light. Those with a taupe color are preferred. Pound slices or file into coarse powder, used raw; or made into concentrated powder.
[properties of medicine] bitter, cold. GUIXIN, Liver Channel.
[Efficacy] Clearing away heat and cooling blood, detoxifying, calming convulsions.
【application】
1. Febrile disease, high fever, coma, delirium, convulsions, mania
This product is bitter and cold, enters the heart and liver blood, can clear away heat and cool blood, relieve fire and detoxify, and calm convulsions. Control febrile disease heat enters camp blood, high fever coma delirium, convulsion convulsions, febrile coma, apoplexy hemiplegia, unconsciousness.
2. Exuberant blood heat and toxin, spots and eruptions, vomiting blood and epistaxis
Get the merit of this product heat-clearing and cooling blood, be used to control blood-heat-toxin excess, macule eruption, spit blood epistaxis.
3. Carbuncle sores, sore throat
Take the power of this product to clear away heat and detoxify, and use it to treat heat-toxin sores and carbuncles, and sore throat.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 15~30g, should be decocted for more than 3 hours. Concentrated buffalo horn powder is taken after mixing, 1.5~3g each time, twice a day.
[Cautions for use] Contraindicated for those with spleen and stomach deficiency.
