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-dispelling and bone-strengthening medicine
The medicines in this section mainly enter the Liver and Kidney meridian, besides dispelling wind-dampness, they also have the functions of nourishing the liver and kidney, and strengthening bones and muscles. Long-term rheumatism will easily damage the liver and kidney; liver and kidney deficiency, wind-cold-damp pathogens will easily infect the waist and knees, so the selection of medicines in this section has the significance of strengthening the body and eliminating pathogens, and taking care of both symptoms and symptoms. It can also be used for kidney deficiency, low back pain, bone flaccidity, and weakness.
Wujiapi
It was first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
This product is the dry root bark of the Araliaceae plant Acanthopanax sizhu. Known as "Southern Wujiapi". The gas is slightly fragrant, and the taste is slightly spicy and bitter. Those with thick skin, aroma, and light yellow-brown color are preferred. raw use.
[properties of medicine] pungent, bitter, warm. Return liver, kidney channel.
[Efficacy] Expelling wind and dampness, nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening muscles and bones, diuresis and detumescence.
【application】
1. Rheumatism
This product is pungent to dispel wind, bitter to dry dampness, warm to dispel cold, and also has the function of tonifying, especially suitable for the elderly and chronically ill and weak. Control rheumatic arthralgia, pain in the waist and knees, spasm of tendons, can be used alone or in combination.
2. Muscle and bone flaccidity and softness, delayed walking in children, physical weakness and fatigue
This product has the effect of warming and tonifying, can nourish liver and kidney, and strengthen muscles and bones. It is often used for those with deficiency of liver and kidney, flaccidity of muscles and bones.
3. Edema, beriberi pain
This product can diuresis and reduce swelling. Treat edema, difficulty urinating; beriberi swollen and painful due to stagnation of cold and damp.
【Usage and Dosage】Decoction, 5~10g; or soaked in wine, powdered into pills.
