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.
Sichuan peppercorn
It was first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
This product is the dry and mature peel of green pepper or Zanthoxylum bungeanum of Rutaceae plant. Traditionally, those produced in Sichuan are the best, also known as Sichuan pepper and Shu pepper. Green peppers are better if they are gray-green in color, have no stalks, and have no pepper eyes; the best ones are purple-red peppers, have no stalks, and have no pepper eyes. Use raw or fried.
[Properties] Pungent, warm. Return spleen, stomach, kidney channel.
[Efficacy] Warm and relieve pain, kill insects and relieve itching.
【application】
1. Cold and abdominal pain due to moderate cold, vomiting and diarrhea
The pungent powder of this product is warm and dry, enters the spleen and stomach meridian, is good at warming and drying out dampness, dispersing cold and relieving pain, stopping vomiting and diarrhea. Treatment of external cold invading internally, cold stomach pain, vomiting; spleen and stomach deficiency, cold epigastric pain, vomiting, and loss of appetite; summer injury, dampness and coldness, and persistent diarrhea.
2. Insect abdominal pain
This product has the effect of driving away roundworms and killing insects. It can be used to treat abdominal pain due to worm infestation, reversal of hands and feet, boredom and vomiting of roundworms, etc.; to treat pinworm disease and perianal itching in children, the decoction alone can be used as a retention enema.
3. Eczema, vaginal itching
This product is used externally to kill insects and relieve itching. To treat unbearable vaginal itching in women, it is necessary to wash it with hot soup; to treat eczema itching, it can be used alone, or in combination, decoction and washing.
In addition, this product is compatible with Poria cocos and can be used for kidney deficiency, phlegm and asthma, low back pain and cold feet.
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction and take, 3~6g. Appropriate amount for external use, decoction and fumigation.
【Accompanied medicine】Pepper eye
This product is the seed of green pepper or Zanthoxylum bungeanum from Rutaceae. Sexual flavor is bitter and cold. Returns to the lung, kidney, and bladder meridians. Function: diuretic, reducing swelling, lowering qi and relieving asthma. It is suitable for edema and fullness, cough due to phlegm, etc. Decoction, 3~10g.
