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.
Fist Ginseng
This product is the dry rhizome of Polygonaceae plant Panax ginseng. Also known as purple ginseng. Gas micro, bitter, astringent. It is better to be large, hard, and light reddish brown in section. Slice and serve raw.
[Medicinal properties] bitter, astringent, slightly cold. Return lung, liver, large intestine channel.
[Efficacy] Clearing away heat and detoxification, reducing swelling, relieving wind and calming convulsions, and stopping bleeding.
【application】
1. Carbuncle swollen scrofula, snake bites, sore mouth
This product is bitter and cold, can clear away heat and detoxify, reduce swelling and dissipate stagnation. To treat sores, carbuncles, swelling, pain, scrofula, hemorrhoids, burns, snake bites, etc., fresh products can be smashed and applied to the affected areas, or decocted for washing, or mixed with other medicines.
2. Fever, coma, convulsions and convulsions
The bitter cold of this product enters the Liver Meridian, relieves wind and relieves spasm. Treatment of febrile disease, high fever, dizziness, convulsions, convulsions and tetanus.
3. Dysentery and hot diarrhea
This product can not only clear away heat and detoxify, but also cool blood and stop dysentery. It also has the function of astringent intestines and antidiarrheal to treat red dysentery, pus and blood, and damp-heat diarrhea.
4. Blood heat bleeding, hemorrhoids bleeding
This product is bitter and slightly cold, enters the liver meridian and can cool blood and stop bleeding. Treat hematemesis, epistaxis, metrorrhagia and other bleeding syndromes caused by blood heat.
5. Lung heat cough
This product is bitter and cold, and it is used to treat lung-heat cough due to its effects of clearing lung-heat and detoxifying heat.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 5~10g. Appropriate amount for external use.
[Caution for use] It is not suitable for those who have no real heat and heat poison.
