Rhubarb in China
Sexual taste orientation:
Bitter taste and cold nature. Stomach, spleen, large intestine, liver and pericardium.
Function indication:
It has the effect of purging heat and relaxing bowels, and can be used to treat stagnation of excess heat in gastrointestinal tract, constipation, abdominal distension, pain, refusal to press, even high fever and delirium, such as Dachengqi Decoction. Or constipation due to spleen yang deficiency and cold accumulation, such as warming spleen decoction.
Detoxification and carbuncle elimination, used for toxic heat, sore eyes, sore mouth and tongue, and swollen gums, such as Dahuang Mudan Pi Tang.
It has the effects of removing blood stasis and dredging collaterals, and can be used for treating blood stasis amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, abdominal mass accumulation, traumatic injury, swelling and pain due to blood stasis, etc.
Has the effects of clearing heat and removing dampness, and can be used for jaundice, dysuria and dry stool caused by damp-heat and blood stasis; Hot baths and stone baths are like eight positive powders.
It can also cool blood and stop bleeding, and can be used for hematemesis, epistaxis, hematochezia, metrorrhagia and leukorrhagia caused by heat injury to blood collaterals.
Modern clinic can be used to treat epidemic meningitis, lobar pneumonia, acute biliary tract infection, acute parotitis, acute appendicitis, acute infectious icteric hepatitis, acute enteritis, bacillary dysentery, gastrointestinal bleeding, pharyngolaryngitis, gingival abscess, dermatitis, eczema, gonorrhea, herpes zoster, etc.
Usage and dosage:
Decocting: 3-12g; Or put into pill powder.
External use: grind into powder, water and apply with vinegar.
Rhubarb has a strong laxative effect when used raw, but it is mild when steamed. Wine is hot, and charcoal can remove blood stasis and stop bleeding. It should not be decocted for a long time for diarrhea.
Precautions for use:
Rhubarb is strong in nature, strong in breaking blood stasis and easy to damage healthy qi, so it should be used with caution or contraindication before and after delivery for patients with unknown exterior syndrome, deficiency of qi and blood, deficiency of spleen and stomach, and deficiency of excess blood and blood stasis.
Chinese patent medicine:
Dachengqi Decoction, Wenpi Decoction, Dahuang Peony Skin Decoction, Bazheng Powder