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 for analgesia. It can also be used for rheumatic fever after compatibility.
Kunming Mountain Begonia
It was first recorded in "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica".
This product is the dry root of the Euonymus plant Kunming Mountain Begonia. Gas micro, taste astringent, bitter. It is better to have brown-gray or light brown-yellow bark on the cross-section, and light brown or light yellow-white wood. raw use.
[properties of medicine] bitter, pungent, slightly warm; highly toxic. Return liver, spleen, kidney channel.
[Efficacy] Expelling wind and dampness, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, rejuvenating tendons and bones.
【application】
1. Rheumatism
This product is pungent, bitter, dry and warm, good at expelling rheumatism, dredging meridians and relieving pain, and is a good medicine for treating wind-cold-damp arthralgia, joint swelling, pain and numbness for a long time. Alone soaked in wine, decocted or combined with other medicines.
2. bruises, fractures
This product Xin Neng Xing San is good at promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, reducing swelling and relieving pain, reconnecting tendons and bones, treating bruises, fracture swelling and pain, and can be used for external application alone or in combination with other medicines.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 6~15g, should be decocted first; or soaked in wine. Appropriate amount for external use, powdered for application, or decocted for application, or fresh products pounded for application.
【Caution】Not suitable for the weak. Pregnant women are prohibited. Use with caution in children and women of childbearing age. It should not be taken in excess or for a long time.