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.
green beans
This product is the dry seed of the leguminous mung bean. Sweet. The ones with large grains, plumpness and green color are preferred. Crushed into medicine or powdered.
[properties of medicine] sweet, cold. Homecoming, Stomach Meridian.
【Efficacy】clearing away heat and detoxification, cooling summer heat, diuresis.
【application】
1. Carbuncle sore
This product is sweet and cold, heat-clearing and toxic substances removing, to eliminate carbuncle. It can be used for heat, poisonous sores, carbuncles, swelling and pain. It can be taken as decoction alone or soaked in cold boiled water to filter the juice; or mixed with rhubarb, mint juice and honey to apply to the affected area to detoxify and reduce swelling. If used together with red beans, black beans, and licorice, it can also prevent acne and measles.
2. Medicine and food poisoning
This product is sweet and cold, and is good at detoxifying heat. It is a good antidote for poisoning by hot and poisonous agents such as aconite, croton, arsenic, etc., and food poisoning. The raw product can be ground into powder and taken with cold boiled water to filter the juice, or it can be decocted and taken frequently, or it can be combined with other medicines.
3. Excessive thirst due to heat
This product is sweet and cold, can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, eliminate restlessness and quench thirst, facilitate urination, and is often used as a food for clearing away heat, relieving heat and detoxification among the people. To cure heat, polydipsia, and red urine, this product is often used to make soup and drink cold in summer; it can also be used with watermelon green clothes, lotus leaves, and Artemisia annua to enhance the curative effect.
4. Edema, poor urination
This product has a certain function of diuresis and swelling, and can be used to treat small side obstruction, dripping obstruction, edema, etc.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 15~30g. Appropriate amount for external use.
[Cautions for use] It is not suitable for people with deficiency of the spleen and stomach, slippery intestines and diarrhea.
【with medicine】
Mung bean coat This product is the seed coat of the leguminous plant mung bean. Soak mung beans in clear water, remove the skins and dry them in the sun. Nature and flavor are sweet, cold; GUIXIN, Stomach Meridian. The function is the same as that of mung bean, but the power of relieving heat is not as good as that of mung bean, and its power of clearing away heat and detoxification is better than that of mung bean; Decoction, 6~12g.
Chixiaodou This product is the dry mature seeds of the leguminous plant Chixiaodou or red bean. raw use. Nature and flavor are sweet, sour, flat; GUIXIN, small intestine meridian. Function detoxification and expulsion of pus, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling. It is suitable for carbuncle sores, intestinal abscesses and abdominal pain, edema and fullness, beriberi edema, jaundice, red urine, and rheumatism-heat arthralgia. Decoction, 9~30g. Appropriate amount for external use, powdered for applying.
Black Bean This product is the dry mature seed of the leguminous herb soybean. Nature and flavor are sweet, flat; return spleen, kidney meridian. Function Yijing improves eyesight, nourishes blood and dispels wind, diuresis, detoxification. It is suitable for yin deficiency and polydipsia, dizziness, dizziness, hyperhidrosis due to physical deficiency, low back pain due to kidney deficiency, edema and oliguria, arthralgia pain and spasm, numbness of hands and feet, and food poisoning. Decoction, 9~30g. Appropriate amount for external use, decocted to wash the affected area.
