Recently, a friend had a backache and asked me what to do. He said that it had troubled him for many days, and he was in so much pain. I looked at his tongue and recommended him to use a classic Chinese medicine prescription called Shenzhuo Decoction. He saw that there was dried ginger in it, so he asked me curiously: "Do you still need to use hot medicine in such a hot day?" ?”
Friends, this is a good question. Now that the country has basically turned on the high temperature mode, are the problems that arise at this time caused by heat evil?
In TCM diagnosis, when facing a patient, the most important thing is to first judge the yin and yang, and to put it into practice, it is to distinguish between cold and heat. Once the general direction of cold and heat is wrong, all the following steps will not be correct.
So, in such a hot season, are all the diseases we suffer from caused by heat evil?
In fact, contrary to our imagination, there are many diseases caused by cold exposure at this time.
For example, sleeping at night, the weather is hot, many families sleep with the windows open, people lie by the window, the draft is blowing, and they basically don’t cover themselves with any quilt, so there should be countless people who have abdominal pain, diarrhea, and limb pain .
There are also families that sleep with the air conditioner on. Once they fall asleep, they forget to adjust the temperature. Therefore, the cold wind blows overnight, and they wake up the next day with low back pain. There are many such people.
So, everyone, take a look, in the hot summer season, are you less likely to be injured by cold evil?
In winter, we know how to dress warmly and cover ourselves with quilts, but in summer, all this changes. We only wear trousers to sleep, we sleep on mats, and we only need a towel and quilt. At this time, if there is a cold evil, then It's almost perfect.
Therefore, in the hot summer season, there are more chances of catching cold!
Then, our diet is also different in summer than it is in winter.
The weather is hot in summer. What we like most is cold drinks. What we need most is drinking water. Therefore, we often meet people who eat a watermelon and lie down to sleep with a full belly.
A friend asked: "Isn't this the norm in summer? Is there a problem?"
If there is a problem, at this time, the dampness will be more serious, and the dampness will easily trap the spleen soil, so the spleen soil is more prone to problems at this time.
Now, there are floods everywhere, and the humidity is very heavy. Many people even have the experience of rescue in floods. At this time, they are more likely to be injured by water.
Feeling the cold and dampness in this situation is prone to the problem of cold and dampness trapping the spleen and stomach, such as vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain and stomach pain, etc. At this time, you can use Huoxiangzhengqi water or capsules to solve it.
When the spleen is trapped by cold and damp, another common symptom is low back pain.
For this kind of situation, Chinese medicine will use a classic prescription prescribed by Zhang Zhongjing: Kidney Zhuo Decoction to treat it.
Zhang Zhongjing described the disease in "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber":
"Kidney disease, the person's body is heavy, the waist is cold, as if sitting in water, the shape is like water, but not thirsty, urinating spontaneously, eating and drinking as before, the disease is lower burnt, the body is tired and sweats, the clothes are cold and damp, it has been acquired for a long time, Cold pain below the waist, abdomen as heavy as five thousand coins, Gancao Dried Jiang Fuling Baizhu Decoction is the main one.”
Here, we should pay attention to these characteristics: the waist is cold, like sitting in water; the waist is cold and painful, and the abdomen is as heavy as carrying five thousand coins.
Here, Zhang Zhongjing emphasized two characteristics, one is cold and the other is pain. This kind of pain can be relieved by warming, which means it is caused by cold.
And this prescription is very simple. The weights written by the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing are: 2 liang each of licorice and Atractylodes macrocephala, and 4 liang each of dried ginger and Poria cocos. So this kidney soup is also called "Licorice Dried Ginger Fuling Baizhu Soup".
So, how much should we use for this recipe today?
I generally use:
10 grams of licorice, 15 grams of raw Atractylodes macrocephala, 20 grams of dried ginger, and 20 grams of Poria cocos.
This prescription has the effects of warming the kidneys and dispelling cold, invigorating the spleen and dehumidification. It mainly treats low back pain caused by cold and dampness by replenishing soil to make water and warming cold dampness. The so-called "kidney damage" means that the kidneys are injured by cold and dampness, and the symptoms are more concentrated on the waist. The medicines in the Shenzhuo Decoction actually treat the cold and dampness of the middle burner of the Taiyin. The kidney belongs to the Shaoyin, and the waist is the outer palace of the kidney. There will be symptoms mainly of cold pain at and below the waist.
In this prescription, we usually use Shengbaizhu. There are two kinds of products of Atractylodes macrocephala in pharmacies, one is fried Atractylodes macrocephala, and the other is raw Atractylodes macrocephala. We write "Atractylodes macrocephala". Generally, pharmacies will give fried Atractylodes macrocephala to remove the wetness around the waist. The effect of using raw Atractylodes macrocephala is better. So it is best to write clearly "Sheng Bai Shao".
In addition, when using this prescription, Zhang Zhongjing doubled the amount of dried ginger and Poria cocos to that of Atractylodes macrocephala and licorice. Only then will it be effective.
In clinical practice, many Chinese medicine practitioners will use this prescription as a base for low back pain caused by cold and dampness, and add some traditional Chinese medicines that strengthen muscles and bones, such as Eucommia, Dipsacus, Drynaria, and Spatholobus, etc. It is also a good idea to increase the efficacy of the medicine.
If it is simpler, even if the original prescription is used, the low back pain caused by cold and damp will be eliminated.
During the treatment, if moxibustion, cupping, medicated bath and other methods can be used together, the effect will definitely be better.
Later, after using this prescription, my friend happily told me that the back pain has been cured.
In the past few days, I suddenly received a few friends asking about low back pain, so I remembered this, so I wrote to everyone, reminding everyone: Don’t be hurt by cold evil on a hot day!
What I am talking about is a prescription for treating cold-damp low back pain. However, what I really want to tell you is that in summer, you will lose your vigilance against cold evil, but it will appear at any time, and we must learn to protect ourselves.
