laxatives
Any medicine that can cause diarrhea, or lubricate the large intestine, and have the main function of purging and laxative is called laxative medicine.
This kind of medicine is the product of sedimentation, and it mainly returns to the large intestine meridian. It mainly has the effect of purging and laxative to eliminate gastrointestinal stagnation and dry feces. Or clearing heat and purging fire, so that excess heat and stagnant evil can be cleared and relieved by purging; or driving water to reduce swelling, so that water and dampness can be eliminated with urine and urine, so as to achieve the purpose of removing cessation of drinking and subsiding edema. Some medicines also have the functions of detoxification, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.
Laxatives are mainly suitable for constipation, gastrointestinal stagnation, excess heat internal knots, edema and cessation of drinking. Some medicines can also be used for sore carbuncle, swollen toxin and blood stasis syndrome. When using Gongxia medicine and Junxia Zhushui medicine in laxative medicine, because of their severe effect or toxicity, they are easy to damage the righteousness and spleen and stomach, so the elderly and weak, weak spleen and stomach should be used with caution; women before and after childbirth and menstruation Period should not be used. When using strong laxatives, stop when they are effective, and do not overdose, so as not to damage the stomach qi. When using severe and toxic laxatives, strict processing procedures must be followed to control the dosage to avoid poisoning and ensure drug safety.
According to the strength of the purging medicine, it can be divided into attacking medicine, moistening medicine and steeping medicine.
Moisturize
Most of these medicines are plant seeds and kernels, which are rich in oil, sweet in taste and moist in texture. They mostly enter the spleen and large intestine meridians, can lubricate the large intestine, and promote defecation without severe diarrhea. It is suitable for intestinal dryness and constipation caused by old age, postpartum blood deficiency, fever injury and blood loss.
hemp seed
It was first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
This product is the dry mature seed of Moraceae plant cannabis. Slight gas, light taste. It is better to use the kind of kernel color milky white. It can be used raw or fried, and broken when used.
[properties of medicine] sweet, flat. Return spleen, stomach, large intestine channel.
[Efficacy] Moisten the intestines and laxative.
【application】
Deficiency of blood and body fluid, intestinal dryness and constipation
This product is sweet and flat, moist and fatty, can moisten the intestines and relieve constipation, and also has the effect of nourishing and tonifying deficiency. It is suitable for intestinal dryness and constipation caused by insufficient body fluid and blood, such as the elderly, puerpera, and the infirm. "Behind the Elbow" only use this product to grind, and take it with rice miscellaneous porridge.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 10~15g.
