What does Huang Wu mean? Huang Wu's principle of clearing away heat and toxic materials.

As a Chinese medicine learner, I am quite interested in Chinese medicine. It refers to five kinds of Chinese herbal medicines with Huang surname, and can also be used to refer to five other things. What is Huang Wu? Let's take a look at it with Bian Xiao. Maybe you've used it before!

1, the bitter taste of the good medicine is good for the sick coptis chinensis.

As the saying goes, "The dumb can't say anything about eating Rhizoma Coptidis." In other words, the taste of this medicine. It is also recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that Rhizoma Coptidis tastes bitter and cold. If it is used to reduce fire and dry dampness, the disease will stop.

(1) What is the main function of Rhizoma Coptidis?

Belonging to a medicine for clearing heat and eliminating dampness. Clearing away heat and dampness, purging fire and detoxifying. Can be used for treating fullness due to damp heat, vomiting, acid swallowing, diarrhea, jaundice, high fever and dizziness, hyperactivity of heart fire, insomnia, vomiting due to blood heat, toothache with red eyes, thirst quenching, carbuncle and furuncle; Externally used to treat eczema, wet sores and pus in ear canal.

(2) The classic drugs containing Coptidis Rhizoma are:

Huanglian Shangqing Tablet: In this Chinese patent medicine, Huanglian is the monarch medicine. Its main functions are clearing away heat, relaxing bowels, expelling wind and relieving pain. This medicine is most suitable for people with excessive stomach fire, but it is mainly aimed at the symptoms of wind fire, that is, burning eyes, toothache, sores on the mouth and tongue, sore throat and other symptoms, and its efficacy mainly emphasizes the word "Shang".

In addition, patients with constipation caused by short and red urine, constipation or excessive stomach fire can also take this medicine appropriately.

(3) Can gunpowder containing Rhizoma Coptidis be taken for a long time?

Drugs containing "Coptis chinensis" are basically not recommended for long-term use. For example, Huanglian Shangqing tablets are mostly bitter and cold medicines. Therefore, when recommending gunpowder to customers, it is not recommended to the elderly or children with weak spleen and stomach.

In addition to coptis chinensis, it also contains laxatives such as rhubarb and scutellaria baicalensis Georgi. Therefore, people with weak spleen and stomach (specifically, people who are prone to diarrhea at ordinary times) should avoid taking this medicine for a long time to prevent bitter cold from damaging yin.

Bian Xiao reminded: Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid contains the word "Huanglian" in its name, but it does not contain Huanglian ingredients. Its main components are honeysuckle, scutellaria baicalensis and forsythia suspensa.

2. Li Shizhen's life-saving medicine Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi

Speaking of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, we have to say a folklore about Li Shizhen. According to legend, when Li Shizhen 16 years old, he suddenly got an acute illness and couldn't stop coughing for a long time. After trying Bupleurum, Ophiopogon japonicus, Schizonepeta tenuifolia and other drugs to clear away heat and relieve exterior syndrome, the symptoms still cannot be alleviated. Just when Li Shizhen's family was at a loss, a Taoist priest from afar felt Xiaozhen's pulse and said, Just take 30 grams of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, add two glasses of water, fry one cup and take it for half a month. "Since then, according to the Taoist priest's medication advice, Xiaozhen has an immediate effect after taking the medicine.

From then on, Li Shizhen was deeply impressed by the profoundness of China's medicine and praised Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi for saving his life.

(1) What is the main function of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi?

Belonging to a medicine for clearing heat and eliminating dampness. Purging excess fire, removing damp heat, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage. Can be used for treating excessive heat, polydipsia, cough due to lung heat, dysentery due to damp heat, jaundice, hot stranguria, vomiting, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, conjunctival congestion, fetal movement disorder, carbuncle and furuncle.

(2) The classic medicine containing Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi is:

A: Compound Scutellaria tablets: clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and reducing swelling. Used for sore throat, sore mouth, cold and fever, carbuncle and sore poison. The main ingredients are Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, Polygonum cuspidatum, Andrographis paniculata and Mahonia.

Longdan Xiegan Pill: Clearing liver and benefiting gallbladder, benefiting damp heat. Used for damp-heat in liver and gallbladder, dizziness, red eyes and deafness, hypochondriac pain and bitter taste, red urine and damp-heat leukorrhagia. The main ingredients are Radix Gentianae, Radix Bupleuri, Scutellariae Radix, Fructus Gardeniae (parched), Alismatis Rhizoma, Caulis Akebiae, Semen Plantaginis (parched with salt), Radix Angelicae Sinensis (parched with wine), Radix Rehmanniae and Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata.

Bian Xiao reminded: Longdan Xiegan Pill is used to treat bitter taste, dizziness, damp-heat and other symptoms caused by damp-heat in liver and gallbladder. However, due to its strong nephrotoxicity, taking it in excess can directly damage human kidney. Therefore, we should pay attention to controlling the dosage of this medicine.

3. Cortex Phellodendri purges kidney fire

"Seeking Truth from Materia Medica" says that "Cortex Phellodendri purges kidney fire and clears bladder dampness". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Cortex Phellodendri tastes bitter and cold, belonging to kidney and bladder meridian. Functions: clearing away heat and dampness, purging fire and removing steaming, detoxifying and generating sores.

(1) What is the main function of Cortex Phellodendri?

It is a medicine for clearing heat and drying dampness, which can treat the disease of lower energizer (what is lower energizer? There are explanations at the bottom of the article. Clearing heat. Dryness and dampness, purging fire, detoxification. Treat heat dysentery, diarrhea, thirst quenching, jaundice, flaccidity, wet dream, stranguria, hemorrhoids, bloody stool, leukorrhagia, bone steaming fatigue, red eyes and swelling, sores on the tongue and mouth, and sores caused by swelling and toxin. The effective antibacterial component of Cortex Phellodendri is berberine, so its pharmacological action is similar to that of Rhizoma Coptidis, but its content is low.

(2) The classic medicine containing Cortex Phellodendri is:

Baizhi Dihuang Pill is mainly characterized by adding Anemarrhena asphodeloides and Cortex Phellodendri on the basis of Liuwei Dihuang Pill. Knowing that motherhood is bitter and cold is better than nourishing yin. Cortex Phellodendri is a good medicine for clearing fire and treating damp-heat in liver, gallbladder and intestine. The combination of the two drugs has the effect of nourishing yin and reducing fire.

(3) What diseases is Phellodendron amurense mainly used to treat?

The main function of Phellodendron amurense is to clear away heat and promote diuresis, and treat lower energizer well (what is lower energizer? There are instructions below the article). Therefore, in clinical application, it is mostly used to treat damp-heat symptoms, such as jaundice, eczema, leukorrhagia and itching caused by damp-heat downward flow.

4. Prevention of disease with Huangqi Buqi Decoction

Astragalus has been used for medicine for more than 2000 years. There is a folk saying that "Huangqi decoction is often used for disease prevention and health care". Li Shizhen once recorded Huangqi as a tonic in Compendium of Materia Medica.

(1) What are the main functions of Astragalus?

Astragalus membranaceus is a good medicine for invigorating qi. It has the effects of invigorating qi, consolidating exterior, stopping sweating, promoting granulation, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Can be used for treating qi deficiency, asthenia, and qi stagnation.

Astragalus membranaceus and ginseng are both good medicines for invigorating qi, and ginseng focuses on invigorating qi. Astragalus membranaceus is mainly used for tonifying deficiency. When the weather changes, some people are prone to catch a cold. Traditional Chinese medicine calls it "duplicity". Astragalus membranaceus can be used to strengthen the exterior, and taking Astragalus membranaceus regularly can avoid frequent colds.

(2) Astragalus membranaceus can be soaked in water, which groups are suitable for:

A: Huangqi soaking in water is very suitable for the elderly with insufficient qi and blood. A small amount of Lycium barbarum can be added into Radix Astragali. This is the simplest method of invigorating qi, which is very effective for the elderly with insufficient qi and blood.

(3) A folklore about Astragalus membranaceus.

According to legend, there was a kind old man named Dai San in the Qing Dynasty. He is good at acupuncture therapy, kind and humble, and always ready to help others.

Later, he died because he saved the child who fell off the cliff. The old man is thin and his facial muscles are pale yellow, so people respectfully call him "Huangqi (qí)". In memory of him, people named it "Astragalus membranaceus", which is a sweet herb growing beside the old man's grave. It has the functions of invigorating the middle warmer, benefiting qi, stopping sweating, inducing diuresis and reducing swelling, and treating many patients with it, which is widely circulated among the people.