Introduction: Learn what is a heat-clearing and dry wet medicine, and grasp the efficacy characteristics and clinical applications of skullcap, skullcap, and yellow cedar.
Today we learn to clear heat and dry wet medicine.
Heat-clearing wet medicine
Heat-clearing and wet medicine is a drug that takes heat and dryness as the main effect and mainly treats damp and hot diseases. The heat and dry wet medicine taste is very simple, that is, bitter cold, we should review the clinical manifestations of the damp and hot disease evidence learned in the middle clinic, such as severe head pain, limb drowsiness, thirst and no desire to drink, and the tongue is thicker.
Gastrointestinal damp heat: the location of damp heat is different, the symptoms are also different, the most common damp heat in the intestine is diarrhea, especially damp heat dysentery; damp heat is contained in the spleen and stomach, which can cause bloating and fullness.
Hepatobiliary damp heat: the appearance of damp heat jaundice, Chinese medicine believes that jaundice is damp heat fumigation of the liver and gallbladder, bile spilled over the skin and the appearance of yellowing of the skin, claw nail yellowing, yellowing of the scleral membrane of the eye, that is, jaundice.
Bladder damp heat: it is a lymphatic evidence, with urine yellow and red deficiency, dripping pain as the main manifestation, equivalent to modern medicine of urinary tract infection, pyelonephritis, cystitis and so on.
Caused by damp heat: there are also eczema of the skin, eczema, eczema, joint redness and pain, etc. Heat-clearing and wet medicine can also treat the organ heat.
Let's introduce skullcap, huanglian and yellow cedar.
Skullcap, for the dry root of the labial family plant skullcap, its roots grow for a longer time, especially the upper part of the root, the central part is easy to decay, empty only the outside of this is generally called dry mustard.
Huanglian also uses rhizomes to enter the medicine, its rhizomes and roots are connected together, and after removing the whisker roots, it is very similar to chicken feet, called chicken claw yellow lian.
Cork is a tree of the family Rubiaceae, or the dried root bark of barberry.
In the chinese medicine industry, it is customary to refer to these three drugs with similar efficacy and performance as three yellows, which are often used. In order to facilitate the comparison of these three drugs, we will introduce them together when introducing the performance and efficacy indications.
Commonality one: clear heat, dryness and wetness
Skullcap, huanglian and yellow cedar can not only clear heat and dryness, but also clear heat and fire, but also can clear heat and detoxification, which is combined to clear heat, dryness and dampness, and detoxification.
First, all three can clear heat and dry wet, widely used in the treatment of a variety of damp and hot diseases, the specific symptoms caused by damp heat I will not repeat one by one, in the overview of antipyretic drugs have been introduced. However, these three flavors of clear heat and dry wet medicine, each medicine is most suitable for treatment of damp and hot disease evidence is different, should be distinguished.
Skullcap is more suitable for treating wet temperature disease, why? Because the damp temperature disease itself is a warm fever disease, its lesion site is mainly in the middle and upper focus, and the main part of skullcap is also in the middle and upper focus.
Skullcap
Especially in the lungs, the main reason is that skullcap can reduce heat, patients with warm fever have obvious body temperature increases, and skullcap is good at antipyretic, so it is better than huanglian and yellow cedar, treatment of wet temperature, fever, mildew, moss, often with white cardamom and so on.
Huanglian focuses on the gastrointestinal tract, especially the large intestine damp heat, is the first choice for the treatment of diarrhea, the ancients called Huanglian "the most effective treatment of diarrhea", the most commonly matched drug is Muxiang, the representative prescription is Xianglian pills, because dysentery has tenesmus, tenesmus is to want to defecate and not smooth, is a very uncomfortable sense of urgency, mainly because of the stagnation of the large intestine, you can add wood incense to conduct qi stagnation, which is conducive to alleviating the symptoms of urgency.
The yellow cedar is biased towards the lower focus, which is mainly used for the symptoms of the lower focus, such as jaundice, sores under the band and on the surface of the body, or damp heat paralysis.
Commonality two: clear heat and vent fire
All three can clear the heat and vent the fire, and can be used for the gas heat certificate of warm fever, and can also be used to treat the heat certificate of the internal organs.
Among them, the role of skullcap in clearing the heat is the best, because the heat separation of qi is mainly in the middle and upper focus, especially the relationship with the lungs is very close, the site of action of skullcap is in the lungs, but also can reduce the heat.
In the treatment of organ heat evidence, skullcap is longer than the heat of Qing Shang Jiao, especially the clear lung heat, which is often used to treat lung fever cough and can be used alone. From the perspective of the dialectics of the Six Classics of "On Typhoid Fever", skullcap is also longer than Qing Shaoyang fever, so the heat is in Shaoyang, cold and hot exchanges, often compatible with Chai Hu to reconcile Shaoyang, and the representative formula is Xiao Chai Hu Tang.
Huang Lian is longer than the heat of Qingzhong Jiao, especially the heat of Qingxin and stomach, which can treat the upset and insomnia caused by internal disturbances of heart fire, and is often compatible with cinnabar, representing that the prescription is cinnabar anshen pill;
Treatment of mouth and tongue sores, toothache caused by gastric inflammation, often with cohosh, etc., representative of the prescription is to clear the stomach;
For the treatment of stomach heat and vomiting caused by the stomach of liver fire offenders, it is often combined with evodia, and the representative formula is Zuo Jin Pill.
The yellow cedar is longer than the heat of the Qingxia Jiao, mainly to reduce the hypothermia, and the Zhimu in the clear heat laxative gunpowder must be used for the treatment of yin deficiency fire, bone steaming hot flashes, night sweats, sperm, the representative of the prescription is zhibai dihuang pill.
Commonality three: detoxification and detoxification
These three herbs can treat the sores caused by heat poison, of which Huang Lian's strength is the strongest.
In addition, skullcap can also cool the blood to stop bleeding, safe the fetus, treat the blood fever caused by the blood fever and the fetal restlessness caused by blood fever.
Sanhuang is a more typical bitter cold medicine, so sometimes it is necessary to concoct:
For example, skullcap is fried with wine, which will reduce its bitter cold nature, especially after frying, wine can be introduced upwards, and can better act on the coke, so it is said that the heat is more raw, the fetus is more fried, the hemostasis is more fried, and the coke is more than the wine.
The use of wine to fry Huanglian can reduce its bitter cold nature, and some use ginger juice to fry, which can enhance its stomach clearing and anti-vomiting function.
Huang Lian
Yellow cedar is often fried with salt, because salt grows longer than into the kidneys and is used to deflate the fire.
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