Rheumatism
All the medicines that are mainly used to dispel the evil of rheumatism and are commonly used to treat rheumatic arthralgia are called rheumatism dispelling medicines.
This kind of medicine has a bitter taste and is warm or cool in nature. Xinneng San can work, which can dispel the evil of rheumatism and open the obstruction of meridians; the bitter taste dries dampness, so that the evil of rheumatism does not remain. Therefore, this class of drugs can dispel the evil of rheumatism remaining in the muscles, meridians, and bones, and some of them also have the functions of relaxing tendons, promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals, relieving pain, or nourishing liver and kidney, and strengthening bones and muscles. Mainly used for rheumatism arthralgia pain in limbs, unfavorable joints, swelling, contracture of tendons and other diseases. Some drugs are also suitable for soreness of the waist and knees, flaccidity and weakness of the lower limbs, etc.
Rheumatism-dispelling medicines are divided into three categories: wind-damp-dampness-dispelling medicines, rheumatism-heat-dispelling medicines, and wind-damp-dampness-strengthening medicines according to their medicinal properties and efficacy. It is respectively suitable for wind-cold-damp arthralgia, rheumatism-heat arthralgia, and those with long-term arthralgia syndrome and weak muscles and bones.
Rheumatism-dispelling herbs that are pungent, warm and dry in nature can easily injure yin and consume blood, so those with deficiency of yin and blood should be used with caution.
Arthralgia syndrome is mostly a chronic disease. For convenience, it can be made into wine or pill powder, and wine can "help the medicine's potency and promote blood circulation" and enhance the efficacy of rheumatism medicine. It can also be made into a dosage form for external application and used directly on the affected area.
Dispelling wind, cold and dampness
The medicine in this section has a bitter taste, warm in nature, and enters the Liver, Spleen and Kidney Meridians. Xin can act to dispel wind, bitter can dry dampness, and warm to dispel cold. It has good effects of expelling wind, dehumidification, expelling cold, relieving pain, dredging meridians, etc., especially analgesic, and is mainly suitable for anemofrigid-damp arthralgia, limb and joint pain, localized pain, aggravated by cold, etc. It can also be used for rheumatic fever after compatibility.
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It was first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
This product is the dried root of Angelica Placidae of Umbelliferae. This product has a specific aroma, bitter, pungent, slightly numb tongue. It is better to use thick roots and strong aroma. raw use.
[properties of medicine] pungent, bitter, slightly warm. Return kidney, urinary bladder channel.
[Efficacy] Expelling wind and dampness, clearing numbness and relieving pain, relieving exterior syndrome.
【application】
1. Anemofrigid-damp arthralgia, waist and knee pain
This product is pungent, bitter and dry, has a fragrant and warm air, and is good at dispelling rheumatism and relieving arthralgia. It is the main drug for treating rheumatism and arthralgia. All arthralgia caused by wind, cold and damp pathogens, no matter how old it is, can be used. Because it mainly enters the kidney meridian, it is good at descending, and "discloses the cold and dampness of the kidney meridian", so it is especially suitable for the lower body wind-cold-damp numbness.
2. Wind-cold dampness headache
This product is pungent, bitter, dry, and warm, and can disperse wind-cold and damp pathogens and relieve the exterior, and treat headaches caused by exogenous wind-cold and dampness, and the whole body is full of pain.
3. Shaoyin Fufeng headache
This product is good at entering the kidney meridian and searching for the wind, which can control the Shaoyin headache caused by wind disturbing the kidney meridian and not coming out.
Its anti-rheumatism effect can also cure skin itching, which can be taken orally or washed externally.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 3~10g. Appropriate amount for external use.
【Diagnostic Drugs】Notopterygium and Duhuo both can dispel rheumatism, relieve pain, and relieve exterior syndrome, so as to treat wind-cold-damp arthralgia, wind-cold dampness syndrome, and headache. But notopterygium has a dry and intense activity and strong dispersing power, so it is often used for wind-cold-damp arthralgia and pain in the upper body; independent activity is milder and dispersing power is weak, and it is mostly used for wind-cold-damp arthralgia in the lower body. If wind-cold-damp arthralgia causes pain all over the body, the two are often used in combination.
