In ancient times, there was a southerner who had just come to the north to be an official, because he was not used to the cold climate of the north, so he had to drink some wine every day to ward off the cold, and slowly developed a habit.
After a year and a half, suddenly one day his feet began to swell, and the pain was unbearable, but it was fine during the day, especially at night, and it was so painful that he couldn't sleep. So, he hurriedly sent someone to invite Li Dongyuan, who was the most prestigious in the capital at that time. Li Dongyuan saw that this person was wide and fat, and after a detailed examination, he concluded that he had drunk too much alcohol and induced "beriberi".
Note that beriberi at that time was not the fungal beriberi of today, because there was no fungus at that time, but it was a disease dominated by swollen and painful joints, similar to what we now call gout.
It turns out that the spleen is mainly transported, and the spleen has the effect of transporting water and dampness, and under the action of the spleen, part of the water in the body is vaporized into fluid, which is transported upwards to the heart, lungs, and even the whole body; and the other part is metabolized and discharged from the body through the bladder. If the spleen is deficient, the ability to transport water and liquid will be reduced, and slowly it will become wet, and the moisture will accumulate for a long time and then turn into heat, and the combination of dampness and heat will become damp heat, and the dampness is heavy and turbid, and the damp heat is the most favorite thing to go down, which is like a tank of silt, after a stirring and mixing, and so on for a period of time those turbidity will sink down. Where is the dampness and heat most likely to be deposited in the body? Of course, the joints, these places with thin skin and little flesh are the most likely to hide dirt and dirt.
Therefore, if you have gout, you can see that the joints are red, swollen, hot and painful, but in fact, they are all damp and hot. It is also said in the "Neijing" that the change of sorghum is enough to give birth to a large ding. It can be seen that gout is a disease and the spleen and stomach, and eating has a lot to do with it, in this regard, Chinese medicine and Western medicine coincide, Western medicine believes that high purine and high uric acid diet, such as seafood, alcohol, meat, etc., is the culprit of the high incidence of gout, so if you want to completely cure gout, you must work the mouth.
This formula has been widely used in the clinical practice of later generations of doctors, but there are not too many people who can understand its method and be flexible. Luo Tianyi's medical case in the "Health Treasure" is used as the original prescription. There are records of the addition and subtraction of individual drugs in "Zhang's Yitong": hyperhidrosis, to cimicifuga, easy to astragalus, self-sweating, to atractylodes, easy to cinnamon branches, swelling, to prevent wind, easy to defend oneself, pain and heat, to know the mother, easy to cork.
About the method of dampness. Dampness is yin and evil, and its nature tends to decline, but dampness often coincides with yang evil, such as wind evil and heat evil, and it can be found everywhere. Dampness is on the top and on the surface, and the treatment is to win the dampness with wind medicine; the dampness is in the inside, and the treatment is bitter, warm, dry, and damp; and the dampness is below, and the treatment is to dilute the dampness. Those who are righteous and weak should be treated with righteousness. This is a common method for treating dampness. If it is combined with the wind evil, it can be combined with the wind, and if it is combined with the heat evil, it can be combined with the heat to clear the heat. Perhaps the prescription that the prescription is going to explain can be understood in this way. Of course, the use of medicine should also be combined with meridians, qi and blood. Then, when using clinical symptoms, it can be prescribed according to the manifestations of the disease and the dampness. If the dampness evil is biased towards staying in the meridians, and the manifestation is mainly "pain all over the body", then the treatment is mainly based on wind medicine to win dampness;
Understand this, and then go back to the story, that person is obese, that is to say, his diet has harmed the function of the spleen and stomach, coupled with a lot of alcohol, alcohol is the easiest thing to get wet, dampness and evil trap the spleen, and the spleen and stomach can not lift the spirit, which leads to a vicious circle, dampness on humidification. After finding out the condition, Li Dongyuan opened a party for him, and the man only drank two payments, and most of his illness was cured. What kind of recipe is prescribed? Angelica Pain Soup.
Although Angelica Pain Soup is not Li Dongyuan's recipe, it has a lot of roots with Li Dongyuan, this recipe was created by Zhang Yuanyuan, a famous doctor in the Jin Dynasty, and Zhang Elemental happened to be Li Dongyuan's master.
Li Dongyuan's teacher, Zhang Yuanyuan, first published this prescription in "The Origin of Medicine", and clearly pointed out: "The next two prescriptions are not designed for the treatment of diseases, but this is the way to teach people to compare the cubes, which is easy to understand." The "next two sides" refer to Angelica Pain Soup and Gastrodia Banxia Soup. Li Dongyuan's disciple Luo Tianyi also contains this prescription in the "Health Baojian", and almost all of them quote the main treatment and solution of the prescription in the "Medical Origin", and the treatment plan is attached. It can be considered that Angelica Pain Soup was created by Zhang Element, which is one of the more influential formulas in the Yishui school. Zhang Lu, a physician of the Qing Dynasty, praised this prescription as "the holy prescription of dampness, heat, pain and swelling" in "Zhang's Medical Tong". Later generations of physicians used this formula for the treatment of rheumatic fever paralysis and the initial onset of damp heat beriberi.
"The Origin of Medicine": "Angelica Pain Soup: Treat dampness and heat as a disease, limb pain, heavy shoulders and back, unfavorable chest and diaphragm, pain all over the body, bet on the shins, swelling and pain are unbearable. Jingyun: Dampness and lewdness are inside, and the treatment is bitter and warm. Qiang lives hard, penetrates the customs and wins the dampness; the wind is sweet and bitter, and the warmth disperses the dampness in the meridians, so it is thought to be the king. Water-based moisturizing, cimicifuga, kudzu bitter and flat, the taste is thin, the yang in the yin, leading to the upward, with bitter hair. Atractylodes atractylodes is bitter and sweet, and dehumidifies in the middle; Atractylodes atractylodes is frivolous, strong and strong, and can remove the dampness of the skin, so it is considered a minister. If the blood is strong but not flowing, it will be painful, and the body of Angelica will be warm and dissipated, so that the qi and blood will return. Ginseng, licorice and glycyrrhiza are warm, tonify the spleen and nourish righteousness, so that bitter medicine can not hurt the stomach. Zhong Jingyun: The combination of dampness and heat, the pain of the limbs, the sophora ginseng, the skullcap, the mother, and the yin chen are also the ones who are suffering to vent. Where the wine is pharmaceutical, it is thought that it is used for the cause. Treating dampness is not good for urinating, and it is not its cure. Zhu Ling is sweet and warm, Ze Epsom salty, light to seep it, and can lead it to stay to drink, so it is a support. The smell is combined, the upper and lower are separated, and the moisture can be promoted. ”
Angelica Pain Soup, as the name suggests, pain relief is like a handy, the most unbearable thing about gout is not the pain? This kind of pain, the ancients described it, like a tiger biting the joint, so gout is also called the White Tiger Festival.