What are the obvious symptoms of such patients?
Generally speaking, people suffering from hyperthyroidism are short-tempered, prone to anger, palpitations and sweating, afraid of heat and cold, accompanied by physical weakness and exophthalmos. If you look at the neck carefully, you will have a big neck. If the patient is female, irregular menstruation may occur.
From the tongue picture, some patients' tongues are red or bright red, without tongue coating, and the tongue coating is thin, white, thin and yellow or slightly thick. The pulse condition is dominated by numbers, such as chord number, fine number, slip number, chord fine number or sinking number.
Chinese medicine believes that the occurrence of hyperthyroidism is closely related to the liver. The liver governs the discharge. If there is something wrong with the liver, and the liver qi stagnates, the liver will flourish, and people who are easily emotional are mostly related to this. On the other hand, excessive yang forces body fluid to overflow, making it easy to be agitated and sweat.
Liver hyperactivity leads to spleen deficiency, and liver fire exuberance needs body fluid to cool down. After a long time, the body fluid is almost consumed, which is what we call yin injury.
Therefore, the pathogenesis of hyperthyroidism lies in hyperactivity of liver yang, and spleen deficiency impairs yin. According to these three points, five methods of treating liver are summarized:
Five methods of treating liver
1. Purging liver wood with acid, soothing liver and astringing yin.
There is a saying in Neijing: "The liver wants to disperse, so it is advisable to eat pungent, supplemented by pungent, and diarrhea is sour." Therefore, we should use the method of acid diarrhea to diarrhea liver yang. Commonly used drugs are: Radix Paeoniae Alba, Fructus Chaenomelis and Mume.
Supplemented by soothing the liver and astringing yin: Bupleurum.
2. Gold can make wood.
The five elements of traditional Chinese medicine are very reasonable. What if the liver is too strong? To suppress hyperactivity of liver yang, it is necessary to strengthen the qi of lung gold. Commonly used drugs are: Adenophora adenophora, Ophiopogon japonicus, Dendrobium and Lily.
3. Cultivate the land and respect the wood.
People with too much liver wood will generally have weak spleen and stomach. At this time, it is necessary to replenish the spleen and stomach. Commonly used drugs are: ginseng, ginseng, poria cocos, grass, lentils and lotus seed meat.
4. Purple water cold wood
Namely nourishing yin and softening the liver. The main ingredients are Radix Paeoniae Alba and Radix Rehmanniae.
5. Harmony with Yang and Relieving Wind
That is, it can relieve hyperactivity of yang and calm the internal movement of liver wind. Mulberry leaves, Uncaria rhynchophylla, Fructus Forsythiae, Fructus Gardeniae and Cortex Moutan are the genera.
According to these five methods of treating liver, a basic prescription for treating hyperthyroidism is summarized:
Radix Paeoniae Alba, Mume Fructus, Fructus Chaenomelis, Radix Bupleuri, Radix Adenophorae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Herba Dendrobii, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Lotus Root, Folium Mori, and Fructus Gardeniae.
The above prescription is a general prescription, which can be modified according to the patient's situation in clinical application.