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.
Mulberry branch
It was first recorded in Ben Cao Tu Jing.
This product is the dry twig of Moraceae plant Mulberry. Slight gas, light taste. It is better to have tender quality and yellow-white cross section. Use raw or fried.
[properties of medicine] slightly bitter, flat. Return liver channel.
[Efficacy] Dispelling rheumatism, benefiting joints.
【application】
Rheumatic arthralgia, shoulder arm, joint pain and numbness
This product is mild in nature, dispelling rheumatism and good at reaching the meridians of the limbs, benefiting the joints, new arthralgia syndrome, cold and heat can be used, especially suitable for rheumatism-heat arthralgia, shoulder, arm and joint pain and numbness. "Puji Benshifang" only uses decoction to treat wind-heat arthralgia, and "Jingyue Quanshu" blindly boils ointment to treat muscle and bone pain and numbness of limbs. However, because this product is weak when used alone, it is often combined with other drugs depending on the difference between cold and heat.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 9~15g. Appropriate amount for external use.
