Fuzi Xiexin Decoction for upper heat and lower cold

Chinese medicine does not treat diseases by blindly copying and pasting, or by neglecting one thing while focusing on another. Instead, it focuses on the overall situation and pays attention to the relationship between the five internal organs. When it comes to the relationship between the five internal organs, the key is the relationship between the five internal organs, which is mutually reinforcing, restraining and conflicting. So, what is Fuzi Xiexin Decoction for treating upper heat and lower cold? Let's have a simple understanding of this issue. I hope the following points will be helpful to everyone!

The interrelationship of the five internal organs

One of the greatest characteristics of Chinese medicine is that when understanding the functions and manifestations of the human body system, it focuses on the whole. Each internal organ of the body does not exist independently, and there is a close connection between the five internal organs, the six bowels, the five internal organs, the internal organ system, and between the internal organs and the skin. Therefore, when one organ is sick, Chinese medicine needs to examine several internal organs, and the treatment must also be considered from the perspective of the whole. Kidney disease does not necessarily require the kidney to be treated, and liver disease does not necessarily require the liver to be treated alone. Instead, the five internal organs involved should be taken into consideration to find the key links and balance points for their adjustment.

In daily life, we often see people suffering from abdominal distension and loss of appetite when they get angry. This is because the Liver Wood cannot suppress the Spleen Earth. Because anger hurts the liver, when people get angry, the liver's function of descending is suppressed, resulting in liver depression and qi stagnation. The liver depression and qi stagnation cannot descend the spleen and earth well, so the spleen and earth will stagnate, which is equivalent to the lumps in the farmland. How can the abdomen not be bloated? Can you still eat? Therefore, in order to maintain a full appetite and a healthy body, you must first maintain a cheerful mood, not lose your temper, not get angry, so that the liver fire can be descended in moderation, and the spleen and earth can be digested and absorbed in moderation.

Composition of Fuzi Xiexin Decoction

Fuzi Xiexin Decoction is composed of four medicinal herbs: Lutein, Scutellaria baicalensis, Bupleurum chinense, and Coptis chinensis. "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" was originally used to treat stomach problems. Symptoms include a stuffy stomach, food that does not sink but is stuck in the stomach. Sometimes the stomach feels bloated but not painful. Some patients also describe it as feeling "stuck" there after a meal and as if something is "fixed". "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" called it "heart lump", and now some doctors call it "insufficient gastric motility". It may be accompanied by symptoms of getting angry, such as nausea, thirst, etc., but at the same time, sweating and chills may also occur, which is very contradictory. In fact, it is the main manifestation of hyperactivity of internal fire and spleen and kidney deficiency. When internal heat is excessive and the downward path is blocked, it cannot flow down to the kidneys, so it gets stuck in the stomach, causing a feeling of obstruction in the stomach and symptoms of getting angry. However, the internal fire cannot go down to the kidneys, and the kidney qi cannot get the help of the internal fire, and thus becomes insufficient, so sweating, chills and coldness appear again, and finally the result is that there is heat on the upper part and cold on the lower part. Therefore, Fuzi Xiexin Decoction is not only used to treat stomach diseases, but is also widely used to treat symptoms of upper heat and lower cold due to excessive internal fire and yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire.

Ju Rui's three heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines, Scutellaria baicalensis, Bupleurum chinense, and Coptis chinensis, can clear the fire in the heart and stomach to treat upper heat; Lu Te Technology's Da Xin Hot has the strongest effect of nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney to treat lower cold. We can use both heat and cold, each has its own effect. We can handle some diseases that are caused by a mixture of heat and cold.

Fuzi Xiexin Decoction

Treating the heart-kidney disharmony caused by excessive fire and cold water

Fire is too strong and water is cold, which means that although the internal fire is strong, it is isolated from above and cannot flow left and right, resulting in spleen and kidney deficiency and coldness, that is, the syndrome of heat on top and cold on the bottom. The syndrome of Fuzi Xiexin Decoction in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" belongs to this. The cross-talk between the heart and kidneys requires the help of other internal organs, such as the gastrointestinal elevator. The stomach qi is mainly descending, which helps the internal fire to go down; the temperament is mainly ascending, which helps the kidney sea to rise. If the gastrointestinal function is out of balance, it will affect the communication between the heart and the kidneys. If the internal heat cannot be reduced or the reduction path is not smooth and gradually accumulates, it will cause the internal heat to rise. At the same time, the kidney qi in the lower part of the body cannot be warmed by the internal fire and causes lower cold. Due to the separation of yang, yin, fire and water, the hot ones will become hot and the cold ones will become cold. The main symptoms are irritability, dry mouth, sore throat, even mouth ulcers, toothache, bleeding from the teeth, acne and boils on the face, tinnitus, hair loss, red eyes, and sweating on the upper body. But at the same time, I also have sore waist and fear of cold, cold lower limbs, especially the area below the kneecap, and difficulty urinating. Some patients are very easy to get angry, but they cannot take cold medicines. They will have diarrhea after taking them, and even have diarrhea after eating some cold food. These are all manifestations of upper heat and lower cold. The syndrome of upper heat and lower cold is basically manifested as heart heat and kidney cold, that is, the fire on the upper part is mostly due to excessive internal fire, and the cold on the lower part is mostly due to spleen and kidney deficiency. In this kind of situation, it is necessary to use heat-clearing and yang-promoting drugs together. Fuzi Xiexin Decoction is such a typical prescription.