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 analgesic, and is mainly suitable for anemofrigid-damp arthralgia, limb and joint pain, localized pain, aggravated by cold, etc. It can also be used for rheumatic fever after compatibility.
black snake
It was first recorded in "On the Nature of Medicine".
This product is the dry body of the snake snake of the snake family. Fishy smell, light taste. It is better to have a complete head and tail, black skin and yellow flesh, and firm texture. Remove the head and scales, cut into inch sections, use raw, roast in wine, or stew thoroughly in rice wine, and remove the skin and bones.
[properties of medicine] sweet, flat. Return liver channel.
[Efficacy] Expelling wind, dredging collaterals, relieving spasm.
【application】
1. Rheumatic obstinate numbness, numbness and spasm
This character is wandering, can search for wind pathogens, sharpen joints, dredge meridians, and is commonly used for rheumatic arthralgia, especially suitable for rheumatic arthralgia that persists for a long time. "Compendium of Materia Medica" uses it to make wine and drink to control stubborn numbness, convulsions and acute pain.
2. Slanted mouth and eyes due to stroke, hemiplegia
This product is good at expelling wind, dredging meridians and activating collaterals, so it can be used to treat apoplexy, hemiplegia, convulsions and convulsions.
3. Convulsions, tetanus, convulsions in children
This product can enter the liver to expel wind to stabilize convulsions.
4. Leprosy, mange
This product is good at expelling wind and relieving itching, and can cure dryness and dampness tinea.
In addition, this product can also be used to treat scrofula and malignant sores.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 6~12g; grind into powder, 2~3g each time; or into pills or soak in wine. Appropriate amount for external use.
[Cautions for use] Use with caution in patients with blood deficiency and wind.
【Drugs for identification】Achilles viper, money snake, and black snake are all scurrying in nature, all of which can dispel wind, dredge collaterals, and relieve spasm. for its characteristics. Its effect is strongest in the viper, followed by Viper, and the weakest in Viper; and both Viper and Viper are poisonous and warm and dry in nature, while Viper is mild in nature, non-toxic and slow in action.
[medicine attached] snake slough
This product is the dry epidermal membrane shed by animals of the snake family, black eyebrow snake, golden snake, or black snake. Nature and flavor salty, sweet, flat. Return liver channel. Function expelling wind, arresting convulsion, retreating nebula, detoxifying. It is suitable for infantile convulsions, convulsions, nebula, sore throat, furuncle, and itchy skin. Decoction, 2~3g; grind into powder and swallow, 0.3~0.6g each time. Appropriate amount for external use.
