Diuretic and dampness-removing medicine
Drugs whose main functions are to unblock water channels and seep out water and dampness, and are often used to treat the syndrome of internal water-dampness, are called medicines for diluting water and expelling dampness.
This type of medicine tastes mostly sweet and bland or bitter, and is mainly directed to the bladder, small intestine, kidney, and spleen meridians. Its effects tend to be downward. The bland ones can penetrate and benefit, while the bitter ones can reduce diarrhea. This type of medicine has the effects of diuresis and swelling, diuresis and stranguria, diuresis and jaundice reduction.
The diuretic and dampness-removing medicines are mainly used to treat various diseases caused by water-dampness such as edema, difficulty in urination, diarrhea, phlegm, stranguria, jaundice, eczema, vaginal discharge, dampness and warmth. When using diuretic and dampness-removing drugs, the corresponding drugs must be selected according to different disease syndromes, and the appropriate combinations must be made.
Diuretic and dampness-removing drugs are easy to consume and damage body fluids. They should be used with caution or avoid use for those with yin deficiency and insufficient body fluids, kidney deficiency, spermatorrhea and enuresis. Some drugs have strong tonic effects and should be used with caution by pregnant women.
According to the different properties and main effects of diuretic and dampness-removing drugs, they are divided into three categories: diuretic and swelling drugs, diuretic and stranguria drugs, and diuretic and anti-jaundice drugs.
Dampness-reducing and jaundice-reducing medicine
This type of medicine has a bitter and cold nature and taste, and mainly enters the spleen, stomach, liver, and gallbladder meridians. Bitter cold can clear away dampness and heat, so it has the main functions of clearing away dampness and heat, promoting gallbladder and reducing jaundice. It is mainly used for damp-heat jaundice, with symptoms such as yellow eyes, yellow body, yellow urine, etc. The clinical syndrome can be matched according to the different emphasis on dampness, heat and cold-dampness of Yang Huang and Yin Huang.
Pearl grass
It was first recorded in "The Preparation of Herbal Medicines".
This product is the dried whole plant or the whole plant with roots of the Euphorbiaceae plant. The smell of this product is slightly fragrant, the leaves are slightly bitter, and the stems are light and slightly astringent. It is better to have many fruits and gray-green color. raw use.
[properties of medicine] sweet, bitter, cool. Return liver, lung meridian.
[Effects] Diuretic dampness, reduce jaundice, clear away heat and detoxify, improve eyesight, eliminate accumulation.
【application】
1. Damp-heat jaundice, dysentery, stranguria
This product is bitter-sweet and cool in nature. It is bitter and relieves pain. It is cool and can clear away heat. It enters the liver meridian to benefit the liver and gallbladder, remove dampness and reduce yellowing. It can treat dampness and heat accumulated in the liver and gallbladder, making the face and skin as yellow as orange. This product can also clear away heat, diuresis and relieve stranguria. , used for hot stranguria and astringent pain due to damp-heat in the bladder, as well as sarin and stone stranguria; this product not only relieves damp-heat, but also detoxifies heat, and can treat diarrhea, pus and blood in the stool, and tenesmus caused by damp-heat toxins injecting into the large intestine.
2. Sores and swollen poison, bitten by snakes and dogs
This product is cool in nature and can clear away heat and detoxify. It is used to treat sores, carbuncles and swollen poison caused by accumulation of heat and poison, snake bites or rabid dog bites. It can be taken internally and applied externally.
3. Red eyes, swelling and pain
This product enters the liver meridian, bitter and cool to expel fire, clearing away heat and improving eyesight. It can be used to treat redness, swelling, and unbearable pain due to liver heat attack and wind-heat syndrome. It can be used alone or mixed with chrysanthemum for oral administration and external washing.
4. Malnutrition in children
The sweetness of this product can strengthen the spleen, and the coolness of this product can clear away heat. It can treat children with weak endowments, overeating, fat and sweetness, loss of spleen and stomach, and malnutrition caused by food accumulation and heat. It can be boiled in water and stewed alone, or it can be combined with it.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 15~30g. Appropriate amount for external use.
[Usage Note] This product is bitter and cool, so people with Yang deficiency should use it with caution.
