Heat-clearing medicine
Any medicine that has the main effect of clearing heat and relieving interior heat, and is commonly used to treat interior heat is called heat-clearing medicine.
This type of medicine is cold in nature and settles into the interior. The heat-clearing medicine can clear away the heat in the interior through different functions such as clearing heat and purging fire, clearing heat and dampness, clearing heat and detoxification, clearing heat and cooling blood, and clearing deficiency heat. That is, the principle of "treating heat with cold medicine" in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" in "Neijing".
Heat-clearing medicines are mainly used to treat febrile diseases with high fever and polydipsia, syndromes of excess heat in the lungs, stomach, heart, liver and other viscera, damp-heat diarrhea, damp-heat jaundice, warm-toxin spots, carbuncle sores and swollen toxins, and fever due to yin deficiency.
When using heat-clearing medicines, it is necessary to distinguish the deficiency and excess of heat syndrome.
Most of these medicines have cold and cool properties, which can easily damage the spleen and stomach, so those with weak spleen and stomach, less food and loose stools should be used with caution. Bitter and cold medicines tend to transform dryness and impair yin, and should be used with caution in patients with febrile disease impairing yin or yin deficiency and fluid loss. Heat-clearing medicines are contraindicated in syndromes of excess of yin and excess of yang or true cold and false heat.
According to the differences in properties, efficacy and indications of heat-clearing medicines, heat-clearing medicines can be divided into five categories: heat-clearing and purging medicines, heat-clearing and damp-drying medicines, heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines, heat-clearing and blood-cooling medicines, and deficiency-heat medicines.
Heat-clearing and detoxifying medicine
The nature and flavor of this kind of medicine are mostly bitter and cold, and the main function is to clear away heat and detoxify. Indications for various heat-toxin syndromes, such as sores, carbuncles, furuncles, erysipelas, febrile plaques, sore throat, mumps, diarrhea due to heat-toxins, insect bites, cancer, burns, etc.
This type of medicine is cold and cool in nature, easily injures the spleen and stomach, and will stop the disease immediately, so it should not be taken too much.
Senecio
This product is the dry aerial part of Senecio plant of Compositae. Slight gas, bitter taste. It is better to have more leaves and green color. raw use.
[properties of medicine] bitter, cold. Return lung, Liver Channel.
[Efficacy] Clearing heat and detoxifying, clearing liver and eyesight, promoting dampness.
【application】
1. Carbuncle sore
This product is bitter and cold, and has strong heat-clearing and toxic substances removing effects, dissipating carbuncle and swelling. For carbuncles and sores caused by accumulation of heat and toxins, fresh products can be used alone, decocted in water, taken orally and washed externally, then smashed and applied externally to the affected area, or used with honeysuckle, wild chrysanthemum, and dandelion; this product can clear away heat and detoxify. It can be used to treat water and fire burns, decubitus ulcers and lower extremity ulcers.
2. Cold and fever
This product is bitter and cold, so it can clear away heat and detoxify. It can be used for wind-heat and cold, fever, sore throat and other diseases.
3. Red eyes, swelling and pain
This product is bitter and cold into the liver, can clear the liver and improve eyesight, and treat red eyes, swelling and pain caused by wind-heat or liver-fire inflammation. "Jiangxi Folk Herbal Medicine" uses this product to decoct and wash the eyes alone, or with chrysanthemum, Prunella vulgaris, Compatibility of medicines such as mulberry leaves.
4. Damp-heat diarrhea
This taste is bitter and cold in nature, and has the function of clearing away dampness and heat. For damp-heat in the large intestine, abdominal pain and diarrhea, or diarrhea with pus and blood, tenesmus, this product can be used alone as a decoction or in combination with other medicines.
5. Skin eczema
This product is bitter and cold, and can clear away heat and dampness to relieve itching. It can be used to treat eczema, eczema, and itchy scrotum caused by damp heat.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 15~30g. Appropriate amount for external use, decocted in water for fumigation and washing.
[Cautions for use] Take it with caution for people with spleen and stomach deficiency.
