Traditional Chinese medicine divides the pathogenic factors in the body into six categories: "wind, cold, summer, dampness and fire dryness", as well as qi stagnation and blood stasis. Gout, on the other hand, is physical pain caused by dampness, cold and wind with poor qi and blood, accounting for half of the six categories, with both qi and blood symptoms.
Clinically, it can be manifested as hyperuricemia, paroxysmal chronic arthritis, tophus formation and gouty nephropathy.
For gout, one disease, two different ideas, one burning and one warming. Curing a disease is like breaking ice. Although the methods used are different, the goals and results are the same.
Zhu Lao, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, treated gout with animal drugs with strong functions of eliminating dampness, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Zhu Lao is good at using insect medicine. He believes that "gout can not be cured for a long time, and it is by no means effective by common herbs such as expelling wind and removing dampness, dispelling cold and dredging collaterals." I want to borrow the insect medicine of flesh and blood, and use the opportunity to dig through and open and close the knot. " This is a more violent way.
Formula: Rhizoma Dioscoreae Septemlobae, Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae, Radix Clematidis, Herba Lycopi, Alismatis Rhizoma, Semen Plantaginis, Coicis Semen, Semen Persicae, Carthami Flos, Eupolyphaga Seu Steleophaga and Lumbricus.
This prescription takes Rhizoma Dioscoreae Septemlobae, Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae and Radix Clematidis as the main drugs, which can clear away turbid pathogen, remove toxic substances, dredge joints and relieve pain.
Eupatorium adenophorum, Alisma orientalis, Semen Plantaginis and Coicis Semen can promote diuresis and promote the excretion of turbid toxin from urine; Peach kernel and safflower promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis; Eupolyphaga Seu Steleophaga and Lumbricus have the effects of breaking blood and removing blood stasis, removing blood stasis and resolving hard mass.
The Glycyrrhiza Fuzi Decoction in Treatise on Febrile Diseases by Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, can also be used to treat gout, and its overall medicinal properties are mainly warm and moist.
Formula: Ramulus Cinnamomi, Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae and Radix Glycyrrhizae.
Fuzi in the prescription warms yang, dispels cold and relieves pain; Guizhi helps aconite to promote yang and dispel cold; Baizhu Jianpi Qushi; Compatibility of Guizhi and Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch, pungent and sweet, nourishing yang, strengthening body resistance and expelling wind; Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch can prevent Ramulus Cinnamomi and Radix Aconiti Lateralis from being too violent and damaging healthy qi, and play a role in relieving various drugs. The combination of four drugs, warming yang and strengthening spleen, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold, treats both the symptoms and root causes.