Do you really know the efficacy of some commonly used Chinese medicines? Let's get to know it together!
First, digestive drugs
Loss of appetite, indigestion, abdominal distension and other problems, can promote the spleen and stomach through digestion and accumulation of traditional Chinese medicine.
1. Roasted Hawthorn: Fresh Hawthorn is used as raw material, which has the effects of promoting digestion, invigorating stomach, promoting qi circulation, removing blood stasis, removing turbidity and reducing blood fat, and can be used for meat stagnation, abdominal distension, diarrhea and abdominal pain. Take proper amount directly.
2. Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli: Made from the dry inner membrane of chicken stomach, it can strengthen the spleen and stomach, promote digestion and eliminate food accumulation, and has a significant effect on treating diarrhea caused by spleen and stomach weakness and nausea and vomiting caused by abnormal fluctuation. It is suggested that chicken gizzard-membrane be ground into powder and decocted in thick soup.
3. Malt: It can help digestion, digestion and stagnation. It is suitable for people who are good at digestion and stagnation such as rice, noodles, potatoes and taro, such as indigestion, abdominal distension, vomiting and diarrhea, and no appetite.
4. Divine Comedy: It is made of flour, Polygonum hydropiper, Artemisia annua, almond, etc. It can strengthen spleen, stimulate appetite, promote qi circulation, promote digestion, stagnate diet, dyspepsia, abdominal distension, anorexia, vomiting and diarrhea. Spleen yin deficiency and stomach fire hyperactivity
Pregnant women should take it carefully.
Second, qi-regulating drugs
The main function of qi-regulating drugs is to regulate qi, which is used to treat qi stagnation or qi adverse syndrome, and is suitable for spleen and stomach qi stagnation, liver qi stagnation, lung qi stagnation and so on.
1. Areca catechu: it ranks first among the four medicines in South China, and has a medicinal history of 1800 years, which has been recorded in ancient medical documents and books such as Haiyao Materia Medica, Bielu of Famous Doctors, Shennong Materia Medica Classic and Compendium of Materia Medica.
Betel nut contains many substances, such as fat, alkaloids, catechins, choline and so on. Areca catechu has a unique role in preventing dysentery, and it is also known as "Xizudan". Because boils are generally related to irregular diet and qi stagnation, betel nut has been widely concerned for its medicinal properties because it can reduce qi, promote digestion and resolve phlegm.
At present, Areca catechu is listed as one of the 38 commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in China, and the first part of China Pharmacopoeia 20 15 also contains 60 kinds of prescription preparations containing Areca catechu or its decoction pieces.
Areca catechu can be processed into fried areca catechu, burnt areca catechu and medicinal areca catechu peel. Among them, the efficacy of areca nut peel is to cook immature areca nut, dry it in the sun, cut it into two halves longitudinally, and peel off the peel. Pungent, slightly warm, belonging to spleen, stomach, large intestine and small intestine. Has the effects of promoting circulation of qi, promoting diuresis, and relieving swelling, and can be used for treating stomachache, flatulence, belching, halitosis, and constipation caused by gastrointestinal qi stagnation. It is recommended to take it directly by decocting with water.
Stir-fried betel nut is slightly yellow and marbled, which has the effect of promoting digestion and resolving food accumulation. It can be used for qi stagnation of spleen and stomach and distending pain in chest cavity. It can also be used to treat intestinal parasites such as tapeworms and ascaris lumbricoides, and has obvious anthelmintic effect.
Burned areca catechu is a product fried to brown, which has the functions of promoting stomach movement, accelerating digestion and exhaust, and enhancing intestinal contractility. It can be used to dredge the excessive accumulation of food in human body, increase the number of excretions, and thus achieve the effect of relaxing bowels.
2. Chenpi: regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm can cure spleen and stomach qi stagnation syndrome, wet phlegm, cold phlegm and cough, and directly take a proper amount of decoction.
3. Rhizoma Cyperi: soothing the liver and regulating qi, regulating menstruation and relieving pain. Suitable for hypochondriac swelling and pain caused by liver depression and qi stagnation; Abdominal distension and pain caused by cold coagulation and qi stagnation and liver qi invading the stomach.
4. Fructus Aurantii Immaturus: It can break qi, dissipate stagnation, resolve phlegm and eliminate food stagnation, and is suitable for gastrointestinal stagnation syndrome, chest obstruction, chest obstruction, postpartum abdominal pain and other symptoms.
Third, anti-surface drugs.
Exterior-relieving drugs are traditional Chinese medicines with the main function of dispersing exterior and relieving exterior, which are divided into pungent-warming and pungent-cooling exterior-relieving drugs. Symptoms such as aversion to cold, fever, body pain, stuffy nose and sneezing caused by exogenous pathogens invading the human body are all suitable for relieving exterior syndrome.
Pungent warming relieves exterior pungent, and can dispel cold. It is mainly used for wind-cold symptoms such as aversion to cold, fever, headache and body pain, thin and white tongue coating and floating pulse caused by exogenous pathogenic factors, and has unique advantages in antipyretic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory and sedative effects. Common Chinese medicines are as follows:
1. Ephedra: It is warm and thin, and Tao Hongjing called it "the first medicine for typhoid fever". It has the effect of sweating and eliminating evil. Mahuang decoction is decocted with cassia twig, almond, licorice and water to treat exogenous wind-cold, aversion to cold and fever, headache and body pain, asthma and anhidrosis.
2. Guizhi: According to the Records of Famous Doctors, it can "sweat and relieve exterior syndrome, warm meridians and dredge collaterals, and help yang to turn qi". In addition to the above Mahuang Decoction, the classic prescription of Guizhi is Guizhi Shaoyao Mu Zhi Decoction, which is compatible with Radix Paeoniae Alba, Radix Glycyrrhizae, Herba Ephedrae, Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, and Radix Aconiti Lateralis, and has the effects of expelling wind and removing dampness, activating yang and dispelling cold, and helping to clear heat.
3. Notopterygium root: strong smell, good ascending and dispersing, can dispel wind and dehumidify. It can be used for exogenous wind-cold-dampness, wind-cold common cold with headache, rheumatic joint pain, shoulder and back pain. Because it contains volatile oil, it can be used to treat not only colds and rheumatism, but also cerebral thrombosis, stroke and heart disease.
4. Schizonepeta tenuifolia: medicine and food are homologous, and it has the effect of relieving exterior syndrome, expelling wind, penetrating rash and eliminating sores. It can be used for common cold, joint pain of limbs and rubella itching, and can be directly decocted with 5 10g for drinking.
The pungent and cool exterior-relieving drugs are pungent and cool in nature, can dispel wind-heat and sweat gently, and are suitable for the characterization of heat images such as exogenous wind-heat, sore throat and thin yellow tongue coating, and have obvious advantages in antibacterial and antipyretic.
1. mint: the basic drug for dispelling wind-heat is mainly used for wind-heat, anhidrosis, headache, red eyes, etc. It also has the functions of clearing throat and helping measles to penetrate.
2. Mulberry leaves: good at dispersing wind and purging lung, clearing liver and improving eyesight. For exogenous wind-heat, headache, cough, red eyes and swelling and pain, it is often used with Chrysanthemum, Cassia seed and Ophiopogon japonicus.
3. Chrysanthemum: dispelling wind and clearing heat, improving eyesight, clearing heat and detoxifying, clearing liver and purging fire. When treating exogenous wind-heat, it is often used together with Mulberry Leaf, Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi and Gardenia Gardenia to treat symptoms such as excessive heat and irritability. It has a good effect on furuncle, swelling and pain, and can be used both orally and externally.
4. Bupleurum: relieving exterior syndrome, relieving fever, soothing the liver and relieving depression, suitable for common cold and fever, stagnation of liver qi, hypochondriac pain, irregular menstruation and other symptoms.
Fourth, invigorating qi.
Old age, physical weakness, serious illness, natural weakness, strain, etc. Both can cause qi deficiency, and traditional Chinese medicines for invigorating qi can be used for invigorating qi and preserving health.
1. Ginseng: contains a variety of ginsenoside, volatile oil, ginseng polysaccharide and other substances, which can benefit qi, strengthen spleen, promote fluid production and moisten lung. It is suitable for symptoms such as sweating, diarrhea, massive blood loss or serious illness, and chronic diseases, such as exhaustion, shortness of breath, fatigue, lung dryness and cough.
2. Codonopsis pilosula: tonify spleen and lung qi, enrich blood and promote fluid production, which is suitable for people with spleen deficiency and physical weakness and eating less loose stool; Syndrome of deficiency of both qi and blood caused by qi deficiency, such as pallor or chlorosis, fatigue, dizziness, palpitation, etc.
3. American ginseng: It has the effects of invigorating qi and nourishing yin, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, and is mainly used for treating deficiency of qi and blood and fatigue due to deficiency of heat. It is suitable for shortness of breath, cough with little phlegm or blood in phlegm caused by heat consuming lung, qi and yin.
4. Pseudostellaria heterophylla: cold in nature, it can replenish qi and strengthen the spleen, promote fluid production and moisten the lungs. It is suitable for people with fever, deficiency of both qi and yin, fatigue and spontaneous sweating, reduced diet, dry mouth and insufficient body fluid, and is not suitable for warmth.