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.
Rheumatism and heat medicine
The nature and flavor of this class of medicines are mostly bitter and cold, and enter the Liver, Spleen and Kidney Meridians. Xin can dissipate, bitter can reduce diarrhea, and cold can clear away heat. It has good effects of expelling wind and removing dampness, dredging collaterals and relieving pain, clearing heat and reducing swelling, and is mainly used for rheumatism-heat arthralgia, joint redness, swelling and heat pain. It can also be used for wind-cold-damp arthralgia through compatibility.
Geranium
It was first recorded in "Rescue Famine Materia Medica".
This product is the dry aboveground part of geranium, geranium, or wild geranium of the geranium family (máng). Stork". Slight gas, light taste. Those with grayish green color, many leaves and many fruits are preferred. raw use.
[properties of medicine] pungent, bitter, flat. Return liver, kidney, spleen channel.
[Efficacy] Dispelling rheumatism, dredging channels and collaterals, stopping diarrhea and dysentery, clearing away heat and detoxification.
【application】
1. Rheumatic arthralgia, numbness and spasm, sore muscles and bones
The pungent nature of this product can dissipate, the bitterness can dry dampness, and the property is good for dredging, and has good effects of dispelling rheumatism and dredging channels and collaterals. Control rheumatic arthralgia, numbness and spasm, aches and pains of muscles and bones, can be used alone decocted or boiled ointment; or compatibility.
2. Diarrhea and dysentery
This product can clear away heat and detoxify, stop diarrhea and dysentery, and treat diarrhea and dysentery caused by damp heat and heat toxin. It can be used alone or in combination.
3. Sores
This product has the function of clearing heat and detoxifying, and can be taken orally or externally for treating sores. Oral administration can be compatible; external application can be made into ointment to treat carbuncle furuncle boils, eczema, burns, etc. accumulated by dampness and poison.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 9~15g; or decoction, wine soaking. Appropriate amount for external use.