Licorice and ginger soup is a classic recipe, from "Jin Kui Yaolu" and "Treatise on Typhoid Fever". Licorice and ginger decoction is used to treat the deficiency and cold syndrome of cold in the lungs, and the use of licorice and ginger decoction often causes scabies.
The clinical application of licorice and ginger decoction and the corresponding main clinical manifestations of patients have been elaborated by many doctors.
Mr. Yue Meizhong believes that the hands and feet tend to be cold, and those with a large amount of saliva, urine and other secretions are thin.
Mr. Hu Xishu believes that licorice and ginger soup can be used to treat people with dry throat and spitting foaming due to cold deficiency in the body.
He Qingyong believes that licorice and ginger soup are characterized by a lot of salivation, a lot of thin color, frequent urination or incontinence, dislike of drinking water, calf cramps, fear of cold, pale tongue, slippery moss, floating pulse or strings.
Among them, the main evidence is a lot of saliva, a lot of thin color, calf cramps, and a fear of cold. Licorice and ginger decoction can be used to treat dizziness, cough, chronic bronchitis, enuresis and other diseases.
"Jin Kui Yaolu: Pulmonary Dysfunction Carbuncle Cough Shangqi Disease Pulse Syndrome Treatment Seventh" and "Typhoid Fever Treatise: Distinguishing Sun Disease Pulse Syndrome and Treatment Fifth" both pointed out that licorice and ginger soup should be: "Four taels of licorice, two taels of dried ginger, cannon, Shangzui, three liters of water, boil one liter of Wuhe, remove the drain, divide the temperature and then take it." ”
"Inner Taiwan Discussion": The pulse is floating, sweating from oneself, and those who are cold are strokes. Now those who urinate a few times, upset and anxious, for the yin and yang qi deficiency, can not sweat. On the contrary, with the Guizhi soup by mistake, the stool is convulsed, the throat is dry, and the irritability is also reversed, which is not allowed to sweat and mistakenly attack its surface, and the qi of the camp guard is also caused by weakness and injury. Therefore, with licorice as the king, dry ginger as the minister, the bitterness and sweetness of the two, combined with the restoration of yang qi.
2. "Cold and Temperature Strips": This is the four reverse soups to be attached. The combination of Xin and Gan is used to restore the yang qi in the chest, which clamps the food and sandwiches the yin, the face is barefoot and cold, the fever and wheezing, the abdominal pain is slippery, the internal and external evil is combined, it is difficult to diverge, or the cold hurts the stomach, and it is inconvenient to participate in the operation, and it is suitable to take it, and the holy medicine of the true stomach deficiency and cold is also.
3. "Typhoid Fever Now Released": Dried ginger and aconite are both pure yang and hot medicines, and they can revitalize the attenuation of function. However, the effect of aconite is partial to the whole body, and the effect of dried ginger is limited to the partial. Its main effect is in the warm transport of digestive organs, and also in the lungs, so those with cold lungs, stomach and intestines, use dried ginger, and those with weak heart and reduced vitality of cells, use aconite. Ji Yi's "Medicine Emblem" says that aconite chases water, and dried ginger is mainly stagnant and poisonous. People with weak heart often cause depressive edema, their tongue is light and fat, if they are immersed in water, and the edema will recede by using ginger to strengthen the heart, and non-ginger can chase water.
When the dried ginger and boiled licorice are used together, there is a sentence in the "Book of Difficulty" called "Epsom South and Supplement North", when we are strengthening the heart and lungs, the spleen will be replenished (, therefore, licorice and ginger soup is a decoction of relieverity, which is specially applied to the doctor who mistakenly gave Guizhi Tang to publish, and the fluid was very badly damaged, resulting in dry throat, irritability, cramps in the hands and feet, and nonsense.
Licorice and ginger soup is a yang medicine, we talked about the divergence of pungent and ginger for yang, so licorice and ginger can strengthen the heart yang and lung yang, in fact, it is to strengthen the spleen yang, the function of the spleen will be restored, the spleen will be transported, and the spleen will be the limbs. The ratio of licorice and ginger soup is two to one, licorice two, dried ginger one, if the licorice is 12 grams, the dry ginger is 6 grams, when the condition is serious, of course, it is a little heavier, according to two to one to open it.
Licorice and ginger soup is mainly used to treat typhoid fever pulse floating, self-sweating, urination, upset, slight chills, foot spasms, and after misuse of Guizhi decoction to relieve the table, there is dry throat, irritability and vomiting, pulmonary impotence, spitting saliva but not coughing patients, in addition to these are the main treatments of licorice and ginger soup, there are four major effects.
Licorice and ginger soup is mainly composed of licorice and dried ginger, which has a very significant effect on various deficiency and cold symptoms such as spleen and stomach yang deficiency, cold limbs, dizziness, and chills. If you are accidentally attacked by the cold and cause typhoid fever, drinking a cup of licorice and ginger soup can make the body feel very warm, and when the surface of the body begins to ooze sweat, it means that the cold in the body has been expelled from the body. This is the effect of licorice and ginger decoction on typhoid fever.
This recipe can warm up the yang energy of the middle and upper coke, and it is good at making up for the upper coke with temperature. Zhongjing reminds us that the symptoms of "enuresis" and "urine count" in line with the licorice and ginger decoction syndrome are "upper deficiency", and these symptoms are the manifestations of "upper deficiency cannot be controlled";
In clinical practice, many symptoms may occur under the pathogenesis of yang qi deficiency in the upper and middle cokes, so grasping the pulse pattern that can directly point to the pathogenesis is also the key to the wide and accurate application of this formula.
The disease is a deficiency syndrome, so it is not enough to pulse, which is mainly manifested in the right hand, indicating the pathogenesis of yang qi deficiency, and the inch part corresponds to the upper focus, so the pulse pattern of licorice dried ginger soup is characterized by weakness of the right hand.
Clinically, this vein pattern is experienced, and the right hand is characterized by a significant "collapse" as a finger sensation.
Licorice and ginger decoction also has a therapeutic effect on the pathogenesis of Zhongjiao Yang Qi deficiency. Therefore, in clinical practice, on the basis of the above-mentioned pulse pattern characteristics, the right hand is also relatively weak, which belongs to the pulse of the pulse, which is also the pulse pattern of this side.
Licorice and ginger decoction can also treat bleeding syndromes such as spleen and yang deficiency and inability to unify blood, vomiting blood, and bleeding. Tang Rongchuan said: "The evidence of vomiting blood is the evidence of the positive evidence...... Those who belong to the void and the cold are one or two out of ten in the vomiting blood...... Those who have cold symptoms, yang does not take yin, yin blood overflows, and their evidence must see cold hands and feet, loose and weak stools, subtle and sluggish pulses, pale complexion, light lips and mouth, or internal cold and external heat, and must really see the true feelings of deficiency and cold and false heat, and the main licorice and ginger soup" ("Blood Evidence Theory").
This prescription can also treat stomach pain due to stomach yang deficiency and cold, as well as enuresis and fatigue due to lung and spleen yang deficiency and inability to make water. This prescription is useful in treating cough, urine leakage, urinary hyperuria, and frequent urination in the elderly. Not only the elderly have this symptom, but also middle-aged people, especially middle-aged women, will also have this kind of disease, and this kind of symptom is suitable for licorice and ginger soup. In addition, licorice and ginger decoction can also treat sore throat caused by yang deficiency, and is indicated for those with systemic symptoms of deficiency and cold, and the throat is light red and not swollen.
Zheng Qin'an, a physician of the Qing Dynasty, pointed out in "The True Biography of Medical Theory": "According to the licorice and ginger soup, it is the prescription for the bitter and sweet to turn the yang, and the recipe for the bitter and sweet to turn the yin." Fu dry ginger is pungent and warm, pungent and sweet are from yang, dry ginger is black, its taste is bitter, bitter and sweet from yin. And use licorice and ginger decoction to treat "ordinary people with dry cough without phlegm", which means "this yuan yin is insufficient, and the lungs are dry." The lungs are golden, and the source of raw water is also. Yuan Yin is insufficient, because the lungs are dry, they can't produce water, and the lungs are dry because of the lack of Yuan Yin and the evil fire is born, and the fire is prosperous, so the lungs are dry. The lungs are dry, and the cough is dry. Fayi bitter and sweet yin and blood nourishment, the recipe uses licorice and ginger soup, Angelica sinensis blood tonifying soup, and schisandra chinensis is added to cure it".
Licorice and ginger soup can be bitter and sweet to dissolve yin, and can cure yin deficiency, which is the effect that astragalus and dry ginger or people participating in the combination of dry ginger cannot have. Of course, licorice and dried ginger are combined to treat yin deficiency, and a large amount of boiled licorice must be used. Speaking of this, the author thought of the licorice in the boiled licorice formula, and also thought of what later generations of thermologists called "Gan Shoujin Return".