"Shennong's Materia Medica" as one of the four classic works of traditional Chinese medicine, which records nearly 300 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, and each Chinese herbal medicine has a wide range of clinical use, can be for the alleviation of certain disease symptoms, play a key role, and among them, there are many medicinal materials not only have a high reputation, loved by many doctors, but also its curative effect is also very prominent, and today I want to introduce to you, is a representative of a taste of heat and dampness medicine - skullcap.
In traditional Chinese medicine, there is a saying of "three yellows", which are skullcap, coptis chinensis, and cork these three flavors of traditional Chinese medicine, and these three Chinese herbal medicines are the "masters" of clearing heat and dampness, and doctors often use them together according to the patient's symptoms.
The first medicinal record of skullcap is embodied in the ancient "Shennong's Materia Medica", skullcap medicinal bitter cold, attributed to the lungs, gall bladder, spleen, stomach, large intestine and small intestine meridians, through its range of meridians, we can see that skullcap is a medicinal material with many effects, and the clinical application scenarios are also very extensive, in the original text of "Shennong's Materia Medica" has been mentioned, skullcap "the main heat jaundice, intestinal diarrhea, water, blood closure, malignant resistance to erosion and fire ulcers", has the effect of clearing heat and dampness, diarrhoea and detoxification, hemostasis, and fetal stability, In traditional Chinese medicine, skullcap is also commonly used for the treatment or alleviation of these 5 major symptoms.
1. Damp heat and ruffian, jaundice and diarrhea
Skullcap has a bitter and cold taste, has the effect of clearing heat and dampness, is good at clearing the lungs, stomach and gallbladder and relieves the damp heat symptoms of the large intestine, can clear the damp heat of the middle and upper coke, and is the medicine used by doctors to treat the damp heat of the middle and upper coke. In Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", there are many classic prescriptions related to the characteristics of skullcap, such as Banxia Xingxin Soup, which combines skullcap with Coptis chinensis, dried ginger, Banxia, licorice, ginseng, and jujube, which play a role in the effect of leveling cold and heat, eliminating phlegm and dispersing knots, and can be used to treat symptoms such as damp heat and middle resistance, ruffian vomiting and so on.
In addition, there is another classic prescription - Pueraria Pueraria Scutellaria Soup, which is used to alleviate the dampness and heat of the large intestine, diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases. Of course, if skullcap is used together with yellowing Yin Chen and gardenia, it will also have a "miraculous effect" in targeting damp heat jaundice.
2. Cough with lung fever
Skullcap mainly enters the lung meridian, is good at clearing lung fire and scorching heat, can be used to treat cough and phlegm caused by lung heat suppression, can be used alone, can also be used in combination with other Chinese herbal medicines. For example, skullcap is mixed with bitter almonds, suzi, etc., to form a lung soup, which can be used to relieve lung fever, cough and asthma; In addition, the skullcap Banxia pill made of the combination of French Banxia is also often used for the relief of pulmonary fever, cough and phlegm symptoms.
3. Blood, heat, vomiting
Skullcap can clear away heat and relieve fire, cool blood and stop bleeding, and can be used to treat vomiting blood, hemorrhage and other diseases when fire poison is blazing and blood is flourishing. Skullcap can also be used to treat other bleeding syndromes, such as with Ulmus vulgaris and Sophora sophora, which can be used to treat blood in the stool, and with Angelica sinensis, it can treat blood collapse in women.
4. Carbuncle sore poison
Skullcap has a very strong heat-clearing, fire-expelling, detoxification effect, therefore, it is often used to treat carbuncle swelling and sores caused by fire poison, among them, the most classic medicine is Coptis detoxification soup, skullcap and Coptis chinensis, Phellodendron and Gardenia together, the ability to detoxify fire is very strong, and the use is also very wide.
5. Fetal restlessness
For pregnant women, often because the body heat evil is too heavy and cause fetal restlessness and other symptoms, and skullcap has the effect of clearing heat and stabilizing the fetus, it can be well alleviated this problem, can be combined with raw rehmannia and cork and other medicinal materials, such as "Jingyue Quanshu" in the Yin decoction, is the best application, in addition, the same from this book of Taishan Panshi San, is the skullcap with rehmannia rehmannia, interrupted, ginseng and other traditional Chinese medicine, to treat fetal restlessness caused by kidney deficiency.
However, the effect of skullcap can be far more than that, according to medical research, skullcap can also play an anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and antiviral effect to a certain extent. In clinical practice, when using skullcap, most of them are used raw when clearing heat, and they are used to fry more fetus, and when they are scorched and hot, they can use skullcap after wine burning, and after burning skullcap into charcoal, it also has the effect of stopping bleeding.
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