Zhang Zhongjing's "Golden Essentials" has a famous recipe: reed stem soup, a famous party for curing pulmonary carbuncles!
What is a carbuncle? The carbuncle is the dam, and the wall of the land of Judah is not connected. This remedy is often used in the treatment of lung abscesses, lobular pneumonia, bronchitis and other lung hot sputum stasis.
Sputum stasis intertangle, refers to the appearance of phlegm and blood stasis in the body of two bad people, the two do not look at each other well, always fight, causing local stasis in the body, traffic jams, the formation of lumps and stinging, or cause limb numbness, chest tightness and phlegm and so on.
If the two bad guys fight in the lungs, they will form hot poison lungs, and the final result will be that both sides will be injured, and the blood and flesh will rot into a carbuncle.
manifestation:
Sputum is hot in the lungs, and the loss of breath is coughing and sputum.
The carbuncle pus ruptures and comes out through the mouth of the throat, so it coughs up and spits out fishy yellow phlegm and pus blood.
Sputum fever and blood stasis, mutual obstruction in the chest, so the chest pain.
In addition, the tongue is red and yellow, and the pulse is slippery, which are all manifestations of sputum.
The treatment is mainly to clear the lungs and dissolve sputum, and discharge pus one by one. Reed soup is up to the task.
compose:
Reed stems, melon petals, coix seeds, peach kernels. (This party is loaded in the "Preparation for Emergencies" and "Outer Platform Secrets", and the dosage is different.)
The reed stem in the square is usually used as a reed root, which enters the lungs and clears the lung heat, and its nature is cold and frivolous, gushing phlegm and sharp tips, which is a king medicine.
Melon petals refer to winter melon seeds, clear heat and phlegm, damp discharge, can clear up and down, suppress lung qi, and reed stem dosage, vigorously help reed stem clear lung heat, clear lung xuan, polyester sputum discharge pus.
Coix kernel, but because of its sweet and slightly cold, supernatant lung heat and pus drainage, lower stomach and stomach and wet, and melon petals are listed as a medicine.
Peach kernels are the dried ripe seeds of the rosaceae plant peach or mountain peach. The sexual taste is bitter, sweet, flat, with the effect of activating blood and stasis, it can help eliminate carbuncles and adjuvant.
Fang only four flavors, but the structure is rigorous, the medicinal properties are peaceful, peach kernels, winter melon seeds are moist products, peach kernels can be stasis, winter melon seeds can dissolve their turbidity; reed stems are deheated and clear, and the seeds are dehumidified and descended. Together, it achieves the effect of exorcising evil breathing, clearing heat and dissolving phlegm, and discharging pus one by one.
And because the four herbs are all sweet medicines, sweet for soil, native gold, and lungs are gold, so this party uses sweet drugs, not only for the lungs, but also reflects the disease in the focus, do not want to seriously injure the drug policy under it with heavy turbidity, cure the fire but do not hurt the body, no wonder it is called by the name.
If the pulmonary carbuncle pus is not formed, it is advisable to add honeysuckle and houttuynia cordata to enhance the effect of detoxification and detoxification; if the pus has become successful, it can be added to platycodon, raw licorice, and mussel to enhance the effect of phlegm and pus removal.