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.
loofah
It was first recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica".
This product is the vascular bundle of the dry ripe fruit of Cucurbitaceae loofah. Slight gas, light taste. It is better to have thin tendons, toughness, and light yellow and white color. raw use.
[properties of medicine] sweet, flat. Return lung, stomach, liver channel.
[Efficacy] Expelling wind, dredging collaterals, promoting blood circulation, and breastfeeding.
【application】
1. Rheumatic arthralgia, tendon spasm
This product is good at expelling wind and dredging collaterals, but its medicinal effect is mild, and it is often used in compound prescriptions. Control rheumatic arthralgia, spasm of tendons, limb paralysis.
2. Pain in the chest and hypochondrium
This product enters the liver meridian and can activate blood and dredge collaterals, and is often used for distending pain in the chest and hypochondriac due to Qi and blood stasis.
3. Milk blockage, mastitis swelling and pain
This product is light in body and tonifying, good at unblocking milk collaterals, and can treat postpartum milk loss or milk blockage, mastitis swelling and pain.
In addition, this product can cure bruises, chest pain and so on.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 5~12g. Appropriate amount for external use.
