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.
Lychee
This product is the dried whole herb of Euphorbiaceae plant brocade or brocade. Slight gas, slightly astringent taste. It is better to have green leaves and purple stems. raw use.
[properties of medicine] pungent, flat. Return liver, large intestine channel.
[Efficacy] Clearing away heat and detoxification, cooling blood to stop bleeding, promoting dampness and reducing jaundice.
【application】
1. Heat diarrhea and dysentery
This product has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying and stopping dysentery, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, so it is often used for diarrhea, pus and blood in stool caused by damp heat and heat toxin.
2. Blood heat bleeding
This product can not only cool blood and stop bleeding, but also promote blood circulation and dissipate blood stasis. It has the characteristics of stopping bleeding without leaving stasis, so it is used for coughing up blood, epistaxis, blood in stool, hematuria, hemorrhoids, metrorrhagia and traumatic bleeding caused by blood heat.
3. Damp heat jaundice
This product can not only clear away heat and detoxify, but also promote dampness and reduce jaundice. This product can be decocted or taken alone to treat damp-heat jaundice and dysuria, or it can be combined with other medicines.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 9~20g; fresh product 30~60g. Appropriate amount for external use.
