Warming medicine
Drugs that have the main effect of warming the interior and dispelling cold are commonly used to treat interior cold syndrome, and are called warming herbs, also known as dispelling cold medicine.
This type of medicine is pungent in taste and warm in nature. It is pungent in nature and can be dispersed and dissipated. It is warm and unblockable. It is good at moving through the internal organs and can warm the inside and dispel cold. It can warm the menstrual flow and relieve pain. Therefore, it can be used to treat internal cold syndrome, especially internal cold syndrome. That is what the "Nei Jing" says "cold is treated with heat" and the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" means "cold is treated with hot medicine". Some medicines can still help and restore yang, and are used to treat deficiency and cold syndrome and yang deficiency syndrome.
Warming medicines have various effects depending on their main meridians. Mainly entering the spleen and stomach meridian, it can warm the middle and dispel cold and relieve pain. It can be used to treat the invasion of external cold and the syndrome of direct spleen and stomach or spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. Symptoms include cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea, pale tongue with white coating, or accompanied by mental fatigue, Tired limbs, poor diet, etc.; Mainly enters the lung meridian, it can warm the lungs and dissolve fluids, and is used to treat cold lungs and phlegm syndrome, with symptoms such as phlegm and cough, wheezing, white and thin phlegm, pale tongue with slippery coating, etc.; Mainly enters the liver meridian. If it mainly enters the kidney meridian, it can warm the kidney and help yang, and it can be used to treat kidney yang deficiency syndrome, where the symptoms are yang. Cold fistulas in the uterus, cold pain in the waist and knees, frequent nocturia, semen enuresis, etc.; mainly enters the heart and kidney meridians, can warm the yang and unblock the meridians, and is used to treat heart and kidney yang deficiency syndrome, with symptoms such as palpitations, chills, cold limbs, difficulty in urination, Swelling of the limbs, etc.; or it can be used to restore Yang and relieve inverse symptoms, and treat inverse symptoms of Yang deficiency. Symptoms include aversion to cold, fatigue in lying down, sweating, inverse limbs, weak and weak pulse, etc.
The use of warm medicine should be appropriately combined according to different syndromes.
This type of medicine is pungent, hot, and strong, and can easily damage Yin and activate Fire. Therefore, the dosage should be reduced when the weather is hot or if the body's Fire is strong. If the heat lies inside, the heat will be deep and deep. It should be contraindicated in cases of true heat and false cold. It should be contraindicated in cases of excessive heat. , Yin deficiency, excessive fire, and body fluid and blood deficiency should not be used; pregnant women should use with caution.
galangal
It was first recorded in "Bielu of Famous Doctors".
This product is the dried rhizome of galangal, a plant of the Zingiberaceae family. The aroma is aromatic and the taste is spicy. The ones with brownish red color and spicy taste are better. raw use.
[Properties] Pungent, hot. Returns to the spleen and stomach meridians.
[Efficacy] Warm and stop vomiting, dispel cold and relieve pain.
【application】
1. Cold stomach and abdominal pain
This product is pungent and dispersing, warming and relieving pain. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Gagalang is a medicine that removes cold and dampness and warms the spleen and stomach." This product is a commonly used medicine for treating cold stomach and epigastric pain; it can treat cold stomach and liver stagnation, epigastric distension and pain; it can treat stroke, cardiopulmonary angina, and abdominal pain. The pain is severe, the limbs are full, and the boredom is unbearable.
2. Stomach cold, vomiting, belching and sour swallowing
This product is hot in nature, can warm and dispel cold evil, soothe the stomach and stop vomiting. Treat stomach cold and vomiting, belching and swallowing acid; deficiency and cold vomiting.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction and take, 3~6g.
[Additional medicine] Red cardamom
This product is the dried and mature fruit of Alpinia galanga, a plant of the Zingiberaceae family. It is pungent and warm in nature, returns to the spleen and lung meridians, and has the functions of dispersing cold and dampness, awakening the spleen and eliminating food. It is suitable for cold pain in the epigastrium, abdominal distension due to food accumulation, vomiting and diarrhea, and excessive drinking. Decoct and take, 3~6g.
