Gypsum weight sedimentation, cold, sweet and pungent taste, thin smell, light qi can rise to yang, is a cold medicine in the medicine. Gan can enter the stomach, and Xin will go to the lungs, so gypsum can relieve the overflowing heat evil. Its color is white and pure, delicate and moist, and the shape is like crystal. Gypsum cold disperses and clears, sweats and dispels depression, can quench thirst and wheezing, and is good at venting the lungs and stomach.
"Shennong's Materia Medica" records: "(Gypsum) the main stroke of cold and heat, the heart is wheezing, the mouth is dry and bitter, can not rest, the abdomen is painful, remove evil spirits, milk production, gold creation." "The wind hurts, but in the sun it is cold and hot. If the evil enters the Yangming stomach, the internal depression is incomprehensible, and the heat is blazing, and the mouth will be dry and the tongue will not be able to rest. Those who are against the qi and wheezing under the heart are the yang ming's stomach that leads to the heart, and the evil fire rushes upward, and the reverse is not in harmony with the top, resulting in the appearance of asthma. By the cold of gypsum, with the clear yang and the evil heat; because of the bitterness of gypsum, it can go up and down the passage; with the weight of gypsum, it is enough to suppress the floating sun. The abdomen is the place where the large intestine passes in, and the large intestine is dry and golden, and if it is dry, it will be painful, which will cause the stomach to be difficult to defecate. Gypsum is full of autumn gold, with the function of cooling and killing, Xin can promote the lungs and relieve the surface, the cold can clear the yang and the evil truth, and when the stomach fire recedes and the large intestine is cleared, the diseases will be eliminated. The production of milk is the responsibility of Yangming's stomach, the pulse of Yangming, from the lack of potted milk, gypsum can moisten the cold, Yangming moistens the milk; the knife axe gold sore is the main body of Yangming muscle and Taiyin fur, the gold sore is hot, the skin is rotten, and the gypsum is sweet and cold, so it can be used to treat gold sores.
Gypsum people are called white tigers, on the one hand, the white tiger soup in "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" has it. On the other hand, the white tiger is the image of gold falling in the West, and the white tiger can calm the lungs and stomach, so that the scorching summer heat turns into an autumn cool.
"The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" believes that it is harmful to undertake. This means that if your heat is too high, it is a disaster, just like the drought and heat of the heavens and the earth, and then there will be a rain and rain to calm the earth. Therefore, if there is a catastrophe in nature, there is a cure, and if there is a disease in the human body, there is also a cure.
Why should we study medicine to be good at observing nature, because you can understand the opportunity of yin and yang creation, and then apply this principle to the human body, then there is no disadvantage.
Therefore, the "Book of Changes" records that in the past, Bao Xi looked up at astronomy, looked down on geography, watched birds, beasts, insects and fish, and the texture of all things, and then began to make a big change, in order to understand the principle of creation through the gods.
Our generations of physicians have also realized that it is not enough to be a great doctor if you don't know how easy it is. Knowing Yi is not to know how to read fortune telling, divination and auspiciousness, these are all small ways, but to study the truth and understand the truth of life. Then strive to seek the well-being of all people and strive for self-improvement. This is the spirit of our Chinese cultural Taoism. "
Looking back, let's see how the images of heaven and earth correspond to the images of the human body. Why did we repeatedly emphasize earlier that if there is a phenomenon in heaven and earth, there must be a phenomenon corresponding to it in the human body, and if there is a disease in the human body, there must also be a phenomenon corresponding to it between heaven and earth. If you are good at thinking and digging, you will get a glimpse of more of the beauty of nature.
Just like when our human body is suffering from fever, the body is hot, very thirsty, the pulse is strong, and the sweat is like rain, which in the view of Chinese medicine, is called the four major diseases of Yangming. These four major diseases don't look like the state of people in the drought, there is no rain for a long time, the summer heat is transpiring, everyone is sweating, the heart is also anxious, and the pulse is very large.
Because the whole body is strong and hot, it consumes a lot of yin, so the heart is upset and thirsty, and this group of drought is like the human body's yang and fire. So how does nature save people from the heat?
In a word, a long drought is a nectar. The summer heat is harmful, and when the autumn is cool, it will be inherited down, which is called hyperactivity and harm, and it is a system. The pulse of the human body is excessive, a faction of blood and blood debts, and the fluid is boiling, which is called warm fever and qi and blood.
Once you come across the white tiger soup containing gypsum, it is like a fire encountering a torrential rain, just like a summer heat encountering autumn coolness.
In "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" and "The Essentials of the Golden Treasure", Zhang Zhongjing used gypsum to focus on polydipsia, coughing and wheezing, and vomiting. For example, after taking Guizhi Soup, the white tiger and ginseng soup with a large pulse (six taels of Zhimu, one catty of gypsum, two taels of boiled licorice, six taels of japonica rice, and three taels of ginseng) for those who have a stroke, a tight pulse, fever and chills, body pain, and irritability without sweating, and a woman's milk deficiency (six taels of ephedra, two taels of cinnamon branches, two taels of boiled licorice, forty almonds, three taels of ginger, ten jujubes, and a large gypsum chicken); Irritability, vomiting, and Xiaoqinglong plus gypsum soup (ephedra, peony, cinnamon branches, fine spice, licorice, dry ginger three taels each, schisandra, half a liter each of Banxia, two taels of gypsum) The pulse of the evidence is floating, there is water under the heart, wheezing and coughing and breathing, all of which are Xiaoqinglong soup certificates, and gypsum is added due to irritability. It can be seen that the gypsum of the upper four directions should be set up for annoyance, but it must be known that the pathogenesis of annoyance is not limited to one, and it is not the sole owner of gypsum, so it is necessary to guide the gathering of evil in the stomach, so as to develop the violent sun stored in the inner body, so that the muscle surface can be extracted from the middle earth. The gypsum can be heavy and can enter the inside, the taste and pungent can diffuse, and the cold can clear the heat, which is the reason for the treatment.
Clam soup (five taels of clams, three taels of ephedra, three taels of licorice, three taels of ginger, five taels of gypsum, fifty almonds, and twelve jujubes) are thirsty for water after vomiting and are greedy for drink. Vomiting and greedy drinking, and not vomiting again, because there is heat in the stomach, the stomach is not hot and the lungs are dry first, so they are thirsty. Fangzhong salty and cold Wen Clam Wu gypsum with clear gold to remove heat, jin sheng and thirst, with ephedra and other published things, because there is a guest heat depression in the lungs, this has the words "sweat is healed" four words can be proven.
For those who want to drink water to quench their thirst, take 90g of gypsum, 10 large black plums, decoction in water, and add white honey to drink a little, which has a good effect.