Good prescription for treating damp-heat in traditional Chinese medicine

Dampness and heat are what we often call evil dampness. There are many causes of dampness and heat. The external evil is mainly caused by dampness and heat. At the turn of summer and autumn, the heat has not yet ended, water and dampness are rampant, and dampness and heat are at their peak, invading the human body and accumulating into disease. Others are due to improper diet, such as being fond of fatty, sweet and greasy food, which causes dampness and heat; being fond of drinking, overeating, overeating fatty, sweet and greasy food, and unclean food. So when the body shows symptoms of dampness and heat, we have to get rid of the dampness and heat.

Ginseng Jianpi Pills: Ingredients: Ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala, licorice, yam, lotus seeds, white hyacinth bean, costus root, cardamom, tangerine peel, green peel, Liushenqu; there are many medicines such as grain sprout, hawthorn, Euryale ferox, coix seed, angelica, and Citrus aurantium. Function: Strengthens the spleen and stomach, and has both digestive and tonifying effects. Take orally 6-12 grams each time, twice a day. Fuzi Lizhong Pills: Ingredients: Contains Chinese medicines such as aconite, codonopsis, atractylodes, dried ginger, and licorice. Function: Oral administration: 6-9 grams each time, 3 times a day. Use with caution in pregnant women.

Longdan Xiegan Pills: Ingredients: Gentiana, Bupleurum, Scutellaria, Gardenia (fried), Alisma, Akebia, Plantago (fried with salt), Angelica (fried with wine), Rehmannia, and Licorice. Function: Clears the liver and gallbladder, eliminates dampness and heat. It is used for damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder, dizziness, red eyes, tinnitus, deafness, pain in the ribs and bitter taste in the mouth, red urine, and damp-heat in the lower abdomen. Jiawei Xianglian Pills: Main effects: clearing away heat and dampness, resolving stagnation and relieving pain. Applicable diseases: dysentery caused by damp-heat in the large intestine, with symptoms including bloody stool, abdominal pain, and tenesmus. Dosage and Administration: Oral, 6g at a time, 3 times a day.

How to regulate diet when dampness and heat are severe: Vegetables: Eat more aromatic vegetables such as coriander, schizonepeta, patchouli, etc., but these vegetables are also damp and cannot be eaten too much. You can eat these vegetables as side dishes to remove dampness. There are also soybean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, winter melon, papaya, and yam. These vegetables can be eaten as main dishes and have a dehumidifying effect. Tea: Mugwort leaves and perilla leaves, which are warm in nature, can remove dampness, while bamboo leaves and lotus leaves, which are cool in nature, can clear away heat. Drinking tea every day can help clear dampness and heat from the body. Seasoning: Spices such as ginger, fennel, cinnamon, etc. have the effects of dispelling cold, removing dampness, and sweating. Adding a proper amount of them when cooking every day can have the effect of warming the middle and removing dampness. Porridge: Porridge is also a good choice in hot and humid seasons. Add appropriate amounts of Poria cocos, Atractylodes macrocephala, millet and rice, cook them into porridge and drink it every day to strengthen the spleen, remove dampness and nourish the stomach. Soup: Boil appropriate amounts of winter melon, red beans and pork ribs into soup to clear away heat and dampness. Children or people with long-term weak spleen and stomach, such as those who do not want to eat, feel weak all over, or feel full in the stomach after a meal, bloating, diarrhea, etc., can use fried yam and fried chicken gizzard lining, mix them into powder in a 1:1 ratio, and drink one spoonful a day to relieve symptoms. Medicinal properties analysis: Coptis chinensis in the prescription can clear away heat, dry dampness, stop diarrhea and dysentery, and is the main medicine. Scutellaria baicalensis and Phellodendron chinense strengthen the heat-clearing and dampness-relieving function of Coptis chinensis, and serve as assistant drugs. White peony root and Chinese angelica root regulate blood circulation and relieve pain; Corydalis yanhusuo regulates qi and relieves pain; Magnolia officinalis, Citrus aurantium, Areca catechu and Costus root promote qi and harmonize the middle, relieve stagnation and relieve pain; Evodia rutaecarpa warms the middle, dries dampness and stops diarrhea, and is also a bitter and cold ingredient, so it serves as an adjuvant. Licorice strengthens the spleen and harmonizes the stomach, and harmonizes the properties of other drugs, so it is used as a guiding drug. These medicines are used together to clear away heat and dampness, resolve stagnation and relieve pain.

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