In the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" of the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing, there are many prescriptions recorded, and the names of the prescriptions are also different, there are prescriptions named directly with the composition of the drug, such as the white soup of melon and grass, there are also recipes named because of their efficacy, such as the blood soup of the lower stasis, and some directly use the name of the ancient sacred beast, such as white tiger soup.
Why is White Tiger Soup called by that name? The most scientific saying is the Qing Dynasty physician Ke Qin, the white tiger is in the west, and the autumn in the four seasons corresponds to the west, "autumn gold order, hot summer self-solution", because the white tiger soup just has the effect of clearing the air and dividing the heat, so this formula is named after "white tiger soup", which is more solemn.
White tiger soup this formula, has the effect of clearing heat and vitality, by gypsum, Zhimu, licorice, japonica rice these four flavors of medicine, although the composition of the drug is simple, but the most important one is gypsum, gypsum used in this formula content, far more than the sum of the other three flavors of Chinese medicine, so the main Chinese medicine of white tiger soup is gypsum.
Gypsum Xingan is cold, classified into the lung and stomach meridian, can easily clear the Yang Ming Qi into heat, and the heat will not hurt the yin in the body, but can quench thirst and remove the irritability in the heart.
Although the main ingredient of white tiger soup is gypsum, but the role of other traditional Chinese medicine is also not to be underestimated, Zhimu texture is warm, both can assist the gypsum to clear the heat in the lungs and stomach, while nourishing the yin and dryness, supplementing the yin fluid consumed in the body, the mutual cooperation between gypsum and Zhimu can enhance the effect of clearing heat, removing annoyance, and shengjin, which can be said to be the best match for the treatment of Yang Ming Qi heat separation certificate.
Japonica rice and licorice, both of which are beneficial to the stomach and prevent injuries to the spleen and stomach due to great cold.
White tiger soup is an important representative of the clear qi and heat, the treatment because of the heat in the gas, resulting in body heat is not cold, but is a bad heat, sweat more, thirst and cold drink disease, often there will be a red tongue, yellow moss, strong pulse number of tongue vein characteristics.
White Tiger Soup is the basic formula for the treatment of typhoid fever Yang Ming, or warm and sick qi. Cold evil enters our body through the skin, typhoid fever passes into the Yangming Sutra, or the warm evil is injured by the wei camp and the qi, causing a series of clinical symptoms, the internal organs in the body are hot and blazing, so there will be strong heat and not cold; stomach heat hurts the yin, the heat is transpired, and the jin liquid is forced to leak out, so the patient usually shows irritability and sweating.
Zhang Xichun, a pioneer of the Huitong school of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in modern times, has adopted a clever use of white tiger soup, he believes that white tiger soup is a cure for the treatment of Yangming real heat evidence, through decades of clinical practice, all patients who encounter Yangming fever evidence, sick and evil, Yangming hot real, first use one or two doses of white tiger soup, so that he not only expands the scope of clinical use of white tiger soup, but also avoids various changes in conditions caused by improper methods.
Not only that, he also innovated his own treatment methods, adding and subtracting the medicinal composition of the white tiger soup, such as Xianlu soup, Zhang Xichun replaced the original licorice and zhimu of the white tiger soup with yuan ginseng and forsythia, so that not only can Qingyang Ming be hot, but also can treat Yang Ming's real disease, increasing the scope of plaster treatment.
Although since Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" created the White Tiger Soup, later generations of physicians have cleverly used the plaster inside, but if the most exquisite use, it is naturally The Chinese medicine hero Zhang Xichun.
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