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.
Qingfeng vine
It was first recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica".
This product is the dry rhizome of Ivy vine and Ivy chinensis of Fangjiaceae plants. Slight gas, bitter taste. It is better to have greenish-brown outer skin and obvious radial texture on the cut surface. Slice and serve raw.
[properties of medicine] bitter, pungent, flat. Return liver, spleen channel.
[Efficacy] Dispelling rheumatism, dredging meridians, diuresis.
【application】
1. Rheumatic arthralgia, joint swelling, numbness, skin itching
This product is pungent, bitter and dry, and has a strong effect of dispelling rheumatism and dredging channels and collaterals. Treat rheumatic arthralgia, joint swelling, or rheumatism numbness, can be used alone; also compatible with other medicines.
2. Edema, beriberi pain
This product can also facilitate urination.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 6~12g. Appropriate amount for external use.
