Source: Jinlan Traditional Chinese Medicine said
It is often said that "if you want to capture a person's heart, you must first grasp a person's stomach".
However, what many people don't understand is that sometimes the root cause of a bad stomach is liver problems, which is often referred to as liver and stomach disharmony in traditional Chinese medicine.
Since the beginning of the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", traditional Chinese medicine has always emphasized that "the cure must be based on the root". Therefore, the root cause of the problem of liver and stomach disharmony is to solve the problem of the liver.
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Throughout the ages, there have been many classic remedies for regulating liver and stomach disharmony, but there is one prescription that is very wonderful, which can be called a classic among the classics.
It is Zhu Danxi, one of the four masters of Jin Yuanxi, Zhu Danxi in the "Danxi Heart Law", there is a common prescription for treating liver fire and stomach, liver and stomach disharmony, that is, the famous Zuo Jin Pill.
Later, after the clinical use of different doctors, it gradually had many aliases, such as "Zhulian Pill" in the "Introduction to Medicine", and "Zhulian Pill" in the "Collection of Medical Prescriptions".
Later generations of doctors carried out various additions and subtractions, various concoctions, and various applications on the basis of Zuo Jin Pill, but they could not change the proportions and formula classics created by Zhu Danxi, which can be said to be "always imitated and never surpassed".
It can be seen that although the composition of Zuojin Pill is very simple, its status in medicine is extremely high.
Zuo Jin Pill only uses the two traditional Chinese medicines of Coptis chinensis and Wu Zhuyi, which has the effect of clearing the liver and purging fire, reducing inversion and relieving vomiting, and is a common prescription for treating liver fire and stomach disease, and many doctors in later generations have used Zuo Jin Pill to treat symptoms such as chest and flank pain, vomiting and bitterness, and noisy acid swallowing caused by liver and stomach disharmony.
The main reason for the liver fire is that the liver qi is stagnant, the internal fire is born, and the fire evil is rampant and invades the spleen and stomach of the human body, causing liver and stomach disharmony. The blockage of the liver will cause the blockage of qi and induce our chest and flank pain;
Liver fire will cause the stomach to be affected by the acceptance and decay of the stomach, so the patient will have nausea, vomiting, acid reflux and bitter mouth. Therefore, according to this kind of disease, it is necessary to cleanse the liver and relieve fire, as well as reduce inversion and stop vomiting.
Although Zuo Jin Pill only has two flavors of traditional Chinese medicine, it is not to underestimate the compatibility of such drugs, which seems simple, but it contains important significance.
Coptis chinensis itself is a classic Chinese medicine in Qingzhong Jiao Heat, but the content of Coptis chinensis in the whole recipe is almost six times that of Evodia, and this configuration method plays these three roles:
First, it is compatible with Evodia, which can enter the liver meridian to clear the liver fire and enhance the ability to relieve liver fire;
the second is to enhance the effect of stomach clearing fire;
The third is to pour out the heart.
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In the "Book of Difficulties", there is a saying that "in fact, it is the son of the child", and there is a connection between the internal organs in our body, so the purpose of "calming the liver and yang" is achieved by clearing the heart fire.
Because most of the traditional Chinese medicine for catharsis is bitter and bitter, which can easily lead to stagnation and damage yang qi, Zuojin Pill uses Evodia to assist Coptis chinensis and stomach reversal, and at the same time prevent the bitter cold nature of Coptis chinensis and damage the spleen and stomach, so that the fire can be avoided while the cold evil is guarded, and the bitter cold reduces fire without hurting the stomach yang.
The compatibility of the two Chinese herbs seems to be just a simple fusion, but in fact, it has the ingenious effect of reducing inversion and relieving nausea, clearing the liver and purging fire.
The magic of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions is actually reflected in the dosage of traditional Chinese medicine, which is really just the right embodiment in Zuo Jinwan's body, only need to adjust the compatibility ratio of Coptis chinensis and Evodia chinensis slightly, you can achieve different symptoms of the main diseases:
When the ratio of Coptis chinensis and Evodia is the same amount, it has the ability to alleviate the diarrhoea caused by deficiency and cold;
When the content of Coptis chinensis is twice that of Evodia, it can dispel heat evil;
When the content of Evodia is six times that of Coptis chinensis, it is called the anti-left gold pill, which enhances the effect of Evodia in warmth and dissipates cold, and has the effect of repelling cold and relieving nausea.
Although many ancient prescriptions have been established for hundreds of years, or even thousands of years, their power is still being exerted today, and modern Chinese medicine is also studying the modern use of ancient prescriptions.
In modern research, it has been found that Zuojin Pill has a good alleviating and therapeutic effect on liver and stomach diseases, such as acute and chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, cholecystitis, gallstones, etc.