What is hot and cold physique?
The so-called heat refers to the heat of our upper focus, repeated fire, mouth ulcers, sore throat, swollen gums, acne on the face, palpitations and tinnitus.
The so-called cold, is to say that there is a cold in the middle and lower scorch, cold below the spleen and stomach, such as diarrhea after eating a little cold, stomach discomfort, frequent urination, cold under the waist, cold on the lower limbs or soles of the feet and so on.
Why is this happening? Here's a layman's note:
There is a circulatory system in the human body, normally speaking, the heart fire leads down, can warm the lower body, the kidney water goes up, can restrict the scorched fire, moisturize the upper body, so that the body has a yin and yang cycle.
So what is the conditioning idea of hot and cold? Open up our middle burnt spleen and stomach, and then lead the fire above down, up and down convection, cold and heat will be balanced.
To put it simply, think of the upper and lower focal points as two stations, under normal circumstances, the two stations send each other to each other, meet, and intersect up and down. The reason for the failure of the exchange between the two trains is that the station cannot start the train, and the other is the road blockage.
The up and down misalignment is not in the eyes of Chinese medicine. Why is the middle focus blocked?
A large part of the reason is that there is less exercise, now young people do not love sports, the elderly exercise has decreased, always sitting, coupled with dietary factors, over time the body is easy to produce phlegm, wet, cold, the focus is naturally not passable.
How to get through the middle focus?
Zhang Zhongjing provided us with a formula: licorice laxative soup.
Composition: Licorice, skullcap, dried ginger, half summer, jujube, skullcap
You see, Zhang Zhongjing used half a summer, half a summer temperature, can dissolve all kinds of wet phlegm cold phlegm obstruction. To open up the middle focus, it is also necessary to build the middle first, so Fang Li also used hot licorice and dried ginger to stabilize the healthy qi of the spleen and stomach, and also to warm the stomach.
In fact, Zhang Zhongjing wrote more than a dozen squares for this upper heat and lower cold certificate, which shows how complicated the symptoms of upper heat and lower cold are.
Today, from the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", 4 other representative parties were selected, namely "gardenia dried ginger soup, huanglian soup, dried turmeric skullcap huanglian ginseng soup, ephedra cohosh soup", the four square certificates belong to the same hot and cold certificates, but each has its own characteristics, see which is more in line with your symptoms?
1. Gardenia dried ginger soup
Composition: Gardenia, dried ginger
This square is extremely simple, gardenia, dried ginger soaked water to drink, you will get it.
Zhang Zhongjing used this formula to treat stomach fever and spleen cold, and people who met this certificate often had heartburn, upset, dry mouth, and abdominal distension or abdominal pain, abdominal chills, poor food, and loose stools.
And you see, the two medicines in the formula are opposites, one is bitter cold; the other is spicy. Gardenia bitter cold, clear heat to remove annoyance, to penetrate the heat of the top; dry ginger heart heat, warm spleen to disperse the cold, to drive away the cold in the middle.
The two herbs are combined, clear on the hot, warm and cold, opposite.
2. Huanglian soup
Composition: Huanglian, dried ginger, guizhi, half summer, ginseng, licorice, jujube
There is heat in the chest, there is evil qi in the stomach, it is also a kind of hot performance in the cold, such people often have a red face or dark red, the tongue is also red, easy to dry and thirsty, good appetite, love sweating above the chest, but sleep is not good, these are the manifestations of heat;
There is evil qi in the stomach, which can also be understood as having wind and evil in the middle of the scorch, cold and water drinking, what is easy to commit? The stomach is afraid of cold, and it is easy to get a gastrointestinal cold.
This kind of hot and cold certificate is more suitable for huanglian soup.
3: Dried turmeric skullcap with ginseng soup
Composition: Dried ginger, skullcap, skullcap, ginseng
This formula is mainly used to treat "vomiting when food is ingested",
What do you mean? The diet is vomited in the mouth, indicating that the stomach is hot and the stomach qi is obvious.
Why is the stomach gas upside down? Because the cold causes the temper not to rise, the upper heat leads to the stomach qi does not drop, resulting in spleen and stomach rise and fall disorders.
Belonging to this category of situations, suitable for this side, note: spleen and stomach yin deficiency evidence is not suitable for use.
4. Ephedra cohosh soup
Composition: Ephedra, cohosh, angelica, Zhimu, skullcap, wilt, baishu, dried ginger, peony, tianmendong, guizhi, poria, licorice
This formula is mainly for the symptoms of cold hands, feet and limbs, uncomfortable throat, frequent dry mouth, diarrhea, and slow pulse. This is due to the fact that the yang qi in the body is contained by the evil qi that is trapped in the body, and the depression in the body causes the upper heat and lower cold.
There are more medicinal herbs in this formula, which collects the properties of cold, heat, temperature and coolness, so it can be cleared, scattered, publicized, diarrhea, cold and hot are used at the same time, traffic up and down, water and fire are compatible.
What needs to be reminded is that Zhang Zhongjing's several formulas, some in clinical use, some in a formula at the same time cold medicine and hot medicine, if used improperly, not only will affect the efficacy, but also will be uncomfortable, so everyone do not blindly use without authorization, is responsible for themselves.
Traditional Chinese medicine is based on the diagnosis of the disease, depending on the person, the specific use of what formula, the dosage of the use of medicine needs to be under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, remember not to take the drug without authorization.
Finally, I would like to say that life lies in exercise, everyone exercises appropriately, plays tai chi, practices eight duan jin, relaxes muscles and bones, and coordinates yin and yang, which will have more benefits for physical health.