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.
Xu Changqing
It was first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
This product is the dry root or rhizome of Xu Changqing, a plant of Radixaceae. Produced in most parts of the country. The gas is fragrant, and the taste is slightly pungent and cool. It is better to have a strong aroma. raw use.
[properties of medicine] pungent, warm. Return liver, stomach warp.
[Efficacy] Expelling wind and dampness, relieving pain and itching.
【application】
1. Rheumatic arthralgia
This taste is pungent and warm in nature, has the functions of expelling wind and dampness, dredging collaterals and relieving pain, so it is often used for rheumatic arthralgia, waist and knee pain and other symptoms. Treat wind-cold-damp arthralgia, arthralgia, spasm of tendons; Deficiency of the liver and kidney, cold-damp arthralgia, soreness and pain of the waist and knees.
2. Stomach pain fullness, toothache, low back pain, tumbling pain, dysmenorrhea
This product has a strong analgesic effect, so it is often used for various pain syndromes. Treatment of stagnation of qi caused by cold, epigastric pain; dental caries and toothache; qi stagnation and blood stasis, irregular menstruation, abdominal pain during menstruation; bruises, internal resistance of blood stasis.
3. Rubella, eczema
This product has the functions of expelling wind, dehumidification and relieving itching. For the treatment of rubella and eczema with persistent itching, it can be taken orally and washed externally alone, or it can be combined with other medicines.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 3~12g, and then take.
[Notes] Pregnant women should use with caution.
