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.
wood butterfly
This product is the dry and mature seed of the bignoniaceae plant wood butterfly. Also known as Thousand Sheets of Paper, Jade Butterfly, Cloud Old Paper. Slight gas, slightly bitter taste. It is better to be large, white in color and soft as silk. raw use.
[properties of medicine] bitter, sweet, cool. Return lung, liver, stomach warp.
【Efficacy】Clears the lungs and relieves the throat, soothes the liver and harmonizes the stomach.
【application】
1. Lung-heat cough, sore throat and hoarseness
This product is bitter, sweet and cool. It has the effect of clearing lung heat and benefiting the throat. It is a commonly used medicine for treating sore throat, especially for hoarseness. Treat pathogenic heat and damage yin, sore throat, hoarse voice; this product also has the function of clearing lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and can be used to treat cough due to lung heat, or whooping cough in children.
2. Pain in liver and stomach
This product is sweet and relieves bitterness, enters the liver and stomach meridians, can soothe the liver and relieve pain in the stomach, treat liver depression and qi stagnation, pain in the liver and stomach, distending pain in the abdomen, hypochondriac, etc., "Compendium of Materia Medica" single-use research At the end, the wine is transferred to the service.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 1~3g.
