diuresis and dampness medicine
The medicines with the main functions of clearing water channels and expelling water and dampness, and commonly used to treat internal stagnation of water dampness are called diuresis and dampness medicines.
This type of medicine tastes mostly sweet and bland or bitter, and mainly returns to the bladder, small intestine, kidney, and spleen meridians, and its action tends to be downward, with mildness to infiltrate benefits, and bitterness to reduce diarrhea. These medicines have the effects of promoting diuresis to reduce swelling, promoting diuresis to relieve stranguria, promoting diuresis and reducing jaundice.
Medicines for diuresis and dampness are mainly used to treat various diseases caused by water and dampness such as edema, dysuria, diarrhea, phlegm retention, stranguria, jaundice, eczema, leukorrhea, and dampness. To use diuretic and diuretic medicine, the corresponding medicine must be selected according to different diseases and syndromes, and the appropriate compatibility should be made.
Drugs for promoting diuresis and expelling dampness are easy to consume and damage body fluid. They should be used with caution or should not be used for patients with yin deficiency, less fluid, kidney deficiency, nocturnal emission and enuresis. Some drugs have a strong tonic effect, and pregnant women should use them with caution.
According to the differences in properties, efficacy and indications of diuretic and dampness-reducing medicines, they are divided into three categories: diuretic and swelling medicines, diuretic and strangury medicines, and dampness-reducing jaundice medicines.
Diuretic and swelling medicine
This kind of medicine is sweet and bland or slightly cold in nature and taste, and can excrete water and dampness after taking the medicine. It is used for edema, dysuria, diarrhea, and phlegm retention caused by water-damp internal stagnation. In clinical practice, appropriate combinations should be selected according to the etiology and pathogenesis of different syndromes.
Pig Ling
It was first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
This product is the dry sclerotia of polyporaceae fungus Polyporus. Slight gas, light taste. It is better to have black outer skin and white cut surface. raw use.
[properties of medicine] sweet, light, flat. Return kidney, urinary bladder channel.
[Efficacy] Diuretic and dampness.
【application】
Edema, dysuria, diarrhea, turbidity, leukorrhea
This product is sweet and mild in diarrhoea, and has a strong effect of promoting diuresis and expelling dampness. It is used for edema caused by stagnation of water and dampness. It can be used alone or in combination. The medicinal properties of Polyporus subsidence, clear the waterway, clear the turbidity of stranguria when urination is smooth, and it is used for dysuria and turbidity syndrome of yin deficiency with heat.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 6~12g.
[Drugs for Differentiation] Poria cocos and Poria cocos are both sweet and bland in nature, and they can diuresis and exudate dampness. For edema, dysuria, stranguria and other water-dampness symptoms, it should be used for normal phase. However, Poria cocos only has the function of diuretic and dampness, and the diuretic effect is stronger than Poria cocos; And insomnia, forgetfulness and so on. And Poria cocos is an important medicine for treating phlegm.
