Traditional Chinese Medicine Notes Summary of Key Notes on Traditional Chinese Medicine

Section 1: Anti-Extensive Medicines

Any medicine that mainly disperses external evils and treats external syndromes is called anti-Extensive medicine, also known as Extension medicine.

1. Cough and asthma: Ephedra (noises the lungs and relieves asthma); Ginger (warms the lungs and relieves coughs); Asarum (warms the lungs and transforms the drink); Burdock (noises the lungs and relieves phlegm); Mulberry leaves (coughs caused by lung heat and dryness);

2. Edema diuresis: ephedra (feng shui edema); cinnamon twig (water storage syndrome); fragrant grass (edema and athlete's foot); duckweed

3. Vomiting: Ginger (stomach cold vomiting, the holy medicine of the vomiting family); Perilla (fetal gas goes up and down)

4. Measles cannot be penetrated: Schizonepeta (indicating the external pathogens); mint (indicating the wind-heat epithelium); burdock (diarrheal toxins in the heat); cicada slough (indicating the wind-heat epithelium); Cimicifuga (exposed to the pungent powder); Pueraria lobata (indicating the pathogenic factors) External beam)

5. Rubella itching: Schizonepeta, Fangfeng (moisturizer in wind medicine), mint, burdock, cicada slough, duckweed

6. To treat wind (cold) and dampness: Fangfeng, Angelica dahurica, Asarum, Xanthium seed, Qiang Huo

7. Biyuan: Angelica dahurica, Asarum, Xanthium vulgaris, Xinyi

8. Tetanus syndrome: Fangfeng, cicada sloughing (acute and chronic convulsions)

9. Hyperactivity of liver yang, red eyes and dim eyesight: mint, mulberry leaves, chrysanthemums, vitex seeds (sudden deafness)

10. Strange obstacles: cicada, horsetail

11. Soothing the liver and relieving depression: Mint (chest tightness and hypochondriac pain); Bupleurum (qi stagnation)

12. Carbuncle, swollen, sore and ulcer: Schizonepeta (both superficial and superficial); burdock (also smooth and laxative), Angelica dahurica (reduce swelling and distension); chrysanthemum

13. Qi deficiency sinks and rises: Bupleurum (liver and gallbladder qi); Cimicifuga (spleen and stomach qi); Pueraria lobata (spleen deficiency and diarrhea)

14. Exogenous symptoms: Guizhi (wind-cold, wind-heat, external symptoms of yang deficiency); Fangfeng (can be used for wind-cold, rheumatism, and wind-heat); Schizonepeta (the most peaceful medicine); Asarum (can treat external symptoms of yang deficiency)

15. Sore throat: mint (soothes the throat); cicada slough (opens the sound); cohosh

16. Pain relief: Fangfeng (explicit headache); Qianghuo (Taiyang meridian); Angelica dahurica (Yangming meridian); Asarum (Shaoyin meridian); Pueraria lobata (strong pain in the nape and back, high blood pressure and tight nape)

17. Hemostasis: Nepeta (for charcoal frying); Equisetum

18. Symptoms of leukorrhagia: Angelica dahurica (cold-damp, damp-heat)

19. Thirst due to fever, quenching thirst due to yin deficiency: Pueraria lobata (produces fluid and quenches thirst)

20. Fever and polydipsia: light tempeh

21. Detoxification: Perilla (fish and crab poison); ginger (fish and crab poison, raw Pinellia ternata, raw Nanxing)

Section 2: Heat-clearing medicine

Any medicine used to clear away heat, Drugs mainly used to treat heat syndrome are called heat-clearing drugs.

1. Syndrome of excess Qi and heat: Gypsum (lung and stomach); Anemarrhena; Reed root (clears the stomach and relieves vomiting); Trichosanthes trichosanthes (polydipsia due to fever); Bamboo leaves (clears the heart fire); Gardenia (three burners of fire); Coptidis chinensis (clears the heart) Fire)

2. Lung heat and asthma and cough: Gypsum gypsum, Anemarrhena, reed root, Trichosanthin, Scutellaria baicalensis (lung fire); Indigo Naturalis (cough, chest tightness, blood in sputum); Shegan (reducing qi and phlegm, relieving asthma and cough); Digupi (lung fire) Ambush fire)

3. Diabetes syndrome: Gypsum Gypsum, Anemarrhena, Coptidis Coptidis (relieves stomach fire); Trichosanthin, Rehmannia glutinosa, Digupi (produces fluid and quenches thirst)

4. Cool blood and stop bleeding: Gardenia, Scutellaria baicalensis, Coptis chinensis, Rehmannia glutinosa, buffalo horn, Digupi

5. Red, swollen and painful eyes: gardenia; prunella vulgaris; cassia; coptis; gentian; bark bark; wild chrysanthemum; scrophulariaceae; red peony root

6. Intestinal dryness and constipation: Anemarrhena; Cassia seed; Rehmannia glutinosa; Scrophulariaceae

7. Damp-heat and dysentery: Scutellaria baicalensis (dampness and heat in the middle and upper burners; summer-dampness syndrome); Coptis chinensis (dampness and heat in the spleen, stomach and large intestine); Cortex Phellodendron (clearing away heat and drying dampness); Sophora flavescens (reducing pus and blood, intestinal wind); honeysuckle (heat-toxic and bloody dysentery) ); B. javanica (amoebic dysentery)

8. Damp-heat jaundice: gardenia; skullcap; coptis; gentian;

9. Heat enters the nutrient blood: Honeysuckle (transmits nutrient energy and turns Qi); Forsythia suspensa (clears heart fire); Daqingye, Isatis root, Indigo Naturalis (cools blood to reduce spots); Raw Rehmannia glutinosa, Scrophulariaceae, peony bark, red peony root (warm toxin causes spots) ); Lithospermum striata (antipyretic and rash-relieving)

10. Sore throat: Isatis root, Indigo Naturalis, Shegan, Puffball, Mountain Tongue root

11. Fever, coma, epilepsy and convulsions: gentian; indigo naturalis; bear bile; buffalo horn

12. Carbuncle: Dandelion (breast carbuncle); Houttuynia cordata, Golden Buckwheat (pulmonary carbuncle); Blood Vinegar, Sophora sinensis (intestinal carbuncle)

13. Promoting blood circulation and activating collaterals: leucorea; big blood vine; soybean grass; peony bark; red peony root

14. Burns caused by water and fire: Alternaria; Sijiqing; Lithospermum

15. Yin deficiency and internal heat, bone steaming and hot flashes: Anemarrhena; Cortex Phellodendron; Rehmannia glutinosa; Scrophulariaceae; Artemisia annua; Digupi; Coptidis Coptidis; Yin Bupleurum

16. Malaria: Brucea javanica; Artemisia annua; Scutellaria baicalensis; Bupleurum

17. Children with malnutrition: Guanzhong; Yinbupleurum; Huhuanglian

18. To clear up Shaoyang: Scutellaria baicalensis (half-surface heat); Bupleurum (half-mile heat); Artemisia annua (an important medicine for treating malaria)

19. Unstable fetal movement: Perilla perilla (promotes qi); Scutellaria baicalensis (uneasy due to blood heat); Sangjisheng (liver and kidney deficiency)

Section 3: Laxative medicine

Anything that can cause diarrhea, Or drugs that lubricate the large intestine and promote defecation. Called a laxative.

1. Stagnant constipation: Rhubarb (Yangming fu-organ syndrome, hot knots and body fluid damage, cold knots and constipation); Glauber's salt (heat and dryness constipation); Senna (habitual and senile constipation); Aloe vera (heat knots and constipation combined with heart and liver fire) ; Hemp kernel, Euphorbia plum kernel, pine nut kernel (moistening the intestines and laxative); Croton (constipation due to cold accumulation)

2. Reduce swelling and dissipate stagnation: Glauber's salt (throat swelling and pain, sores on the mouth and tongue); Gansui (removing phlegm and saliva); Croton (throat obstruction and phlegm obstruction)

3. Diuretic and swelling: senna (diarrhoea, water flowing down); Liren (beriberi and edema); Croton (ascites bloating); Kansui, Euphorbia japonicus, Daphne (high edema, bloating, drinking); Morning glory (Tongli Er) The stool is drained and wet)

4. Rhubarb (postpartum stagnation, abdominal pain, and endless lochia. Stir-fried charcoal is used for bleeding syndrome)

5. Insecticide: Daphne (head sores, white baldness); morning glory (abdominal pain due to insect accumulation)

6. Dry lung cough: pine nuts (moisten the lungs and relieve cough); genkwa (expectant and relieve cough); morning glory (old chronic bronchitis)

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Section 4: Qurheumatism Drugs

Any medicine that is mainly used to remove wind, cold and dampness and treat rheumatism syndrome is called rheumatism medicine.

Rheumatism (cold, heat) syndrome:

Duhuo (cold-damp pain in the lower body, superficial syndrome caused by wind-cold and dampness); Clematis (passing through the twelve meridians, wind evil is prevalent) ); Chuanwu (cold evils tend to be strong); Agkistrodon chinensis, Wushao She (dispels wind evils and is an important medicine for cutting off wind); Papaya (dampness numbness); Moisturizer); Fangji (dampness is more prevalent); Mulberry branch (strengthens the meridians of the limbs, tones the joints); Acanthopanax bark, Mulberry Jisheng, Dog's spine (with long-term paralysis, liver and kidney deficiency, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees)

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Section 5: Dampness-Removing Medicines

Any aromatic smell, warm and dry nature, used to remove dampness and move the spleen The drugs with the main function are called dampness-removing drugs.

1. Dampness blockage in the middle burner: Huoxiang (spleen trapped by cold and dampness); Peilan (spleen syndrome); Atractylodes (dry dampness and strengthen the spleen); Magnolia officinalis (dry dampness, lower Qi and remove fullness); Amomum villosum (resolve dampness and revive the spleen, spleen and stomach insufficiency) and)

2. Vomiting: Patchouli (and stop vomiting); Peilan (relieves heat); Amomum villosum (spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, the emphasis is on warming the spleen); Cardamom (warms the stomach and stops vomiting)

3. Summer dampness, the beginning of dampness and warmth: Huoxiang (external wind and cold in summer months, internal injury and coldness)

4. Rheumatism syndrome: Atractylodes (also caused by wind and cold)

5. Atractylodes: used to treat night blindness and blurry eyes.

Section 6: Drugs for diluting water and promoting dampness

Any drug that can dilute water channels, purge water and dampness, and mainly treat the syndrome of internal retention of water and dampness is called a drug for diluting water and dampness. . Divided into: diuretic and swelling medicine, diuretic and stranguria medicine, diuretic and anti-jaundice medicine

1. Edema: Poria cocos (mild medicinal properties, used to treat edema caused by internal water-dampness and difficulty in urination); Yiyiren (spleen deficiency and excessive dampness, athlete's foot and edema); Polyporus cocos (various edema caused by water-dampness stopped); Alisma (facilitates urination and solid stools) ); Calabash (swollen face, abdominal edema); Xiangjiapi (cardiogenic edema); Zeqi (edema all over the body, abdominal distension); Plantago (long-term illness, kidney deficiency, heavy waist and swollen feet)

2. Phlegm: Poria (phlegm accumulation, dizziness and palpitations caused by accumulation of dampness); Alisma (dizziness due to lack of clear yang); Plantagine (clearing the lungs and lowering qi, resolving phlegm and relieving cough); Shiwei (cough due to lung heat); Polygonum cuspidatum (clears lung heat, resolves phlegm and relieves cough)

3. Syndrome of stranguria: Alisma (clears dampness and heat in the bladder, purges the deficiency fire of the kidney meridian); Plantain (dampness and heat injects into the bladder, causing stranguria and painful urination); Talc (stone stranguria, bloody stranguria); Akebia (dampness and heat in the bladder); seaweed Jinsha (astringent and painful stranguria); Shiwei (bloody stranguria); Desmodium chinensis (stone stranguria, hot stranguria)

4. Jaundice: Corn silk (can be used for both yang and yin yellow); Artemisia argyi (clears dampness and heat in the spleen, stomach, liver and gallbladder, and is the first choice medicine for reducing jaundice); Desmodium (clears the fire of the liver and gallbladder, removes dampness and heat in the lower scorch); Polygonum cuspidatum (jaundice caused by dampness and heat, turbid stranguria) , take it with you)

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Section 7: Warming Medicine

Any medicine that warms the inside, dispels cold, and treats the inside Medicines mainly used for cold syndrome are called warming medicines and cold-dispelling medicines.

1. Syndrome of yang deficiency and yang deficiency: Aconite (warms the yang energy throughout the body, the first medicine to restore yang and relieve stress); dried ginger (yang deficiency in the heart and kidneys, excessive yin and coldness in the interior); cinnamon (returning fire to its original state)

2. Cold Bi Syndrome: Aconite (wind-cold-damp arthralgia and joint pain all over the body); Cinnamon (promotes qi and blood, warms the meridians, dispels cold and relieves pain); Evodia (treats pain due to liver cold and qi stagnation)

3. Cough and asthma caused by cold drinks: dried ginger (warms the lungs and transforms into drinks); Evodia Fructus (liver-qi mixed with cold drinks can lead to headaches and vomiting due to yin deficiency)

4. Abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea: dried ginger (warms the middle and dispels cold, strengthens the spleen and yang); Evodia (stomach cold vomiting, liver and stomach disharmony, warms the spleen and kidneys, helps yang and stops diarrhea); fennel (appetizer, relieves vomiting) ); Clove (warms the spleen and stomach and relieves qi stagnation, especially good at reducing qi, stopping vomiting and urinating); Zanthoxylum bungeanum (warming and removing dampness, killing insects, relieving itching and treating abdominal pain due to insect infestation)

5. Impotence, cold palace: cinnamon (vital fire is weak); clove (warms the kidneys and supports yang)

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Section 8: Common Qi-Regulating Medicines Drugs that mainly regulate qi and treat qi stagnation or qi inversion syndrome are called qi-regulating drugs and qi-moving drugs.

1. Qi stagnation syndrome: tangerine peel (middle burner is cold and damp, spleen and stomach qi stagnation); green peel (liver stagnation and qi stagnation); Citrus aurantium (gastrointestinal qi stagnation); Agarwood (promotes qi and relieves pain, strengthens the spleen and eliminates food); agarwood (warms the stomach and reduces food intake) Qi and stop vomiting); Melanium azadirachta (stagnation of liver qi turning into fire for a long time); Wuyao (enters the lungs to clear and unblock, enters the spleen and widens the middle); Qingmuxiang (syndrome of liver and stomach qi stagnation); litchi core (treats cold and condensed qi) Hernia pain due to stagnation, testicular swelling and pain); Cyperus rotundus (soothes the liver and relieves stagnation, regulates menstruation and relieves pain, relaxes the middle and eliminates food and lowers the qi); Bergamot (refreshes the spleen, regulates qi, and relieves stagnation in the middle)

2. Phlegm: dried tangerine peel (dries dampness and resolves phlegm, warms and resolves cold phlegm); Bergamot (prolonged cough and wheezing, chest tightness and pain)

3. Chest paralysis: tangerine peel, citrus aurantium, woody bark, and white bark (cold phlegm blocks, chest yang is weak)

4. Warming the kidneys: Agarwood (warms the kidneys and absorbs qi, reduces inverse flow and relieves asthma); Wuyao (warms the kidneys and dispels cold, reduces urination and stops nocturnal emissions) Notes on Traditional Chinese Medicine (for study reference only)

Section 9: Digestion Medicine 1. Dietary stagnation: hawthorn (an important medicine for digesting greasy meat); Shenqu (good at eliminating rice and flour accumulation, suitable for stir-frying); malt (promotes the digestion of starchy foods, and can also cure stagnation of lactation in children); rice sprouts (spleen deficiency) Indigestion caused by food accumulation due to bad luck); Radish seed (fullness and pain in the abdomen due to food accumulation and qi stagnation, belching and sour swallowing); Gallus gallus gallinae (rice and flour accumulation syndrome, also used to treat spleen deficiency and malnutrition in children)

2. Others: Malt (returning milk, treating breast swelling and pain); radish seed (reducing qi and resolving phlegm); Gallus gallus gallus L. (kidney deficiency, enuresis and spermatorrhea)