What is the role of Chinese medicine lead?

The treatment methods for different diseases are different. There are many diseases that can only be completely eradicated through the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. However, when taking traditional Chinese medicine, it is often necessary to use medicine leads. There are many types of medicine leads. Through medicine leads, the efficacy of the medicine can be maximized. Although medicine leads seem to be very ordinary, they actually have a great effect. So what is the role of traditional Chinese medicine leads?

First, what is the function of Chinese herbal medicine? To enhance the therapeutic effect. For Chinese patent medicines for treating colds caused by wind and cold, taking them with hot ginger soup can enhance the effect of dispelling wind evil; or drinking a bowl of hot porridge after taking the medicine can warm the stomach and induce sweating, which can enhance the efficacy of the medicine; Chinese herbal decoctions that strengthen the spleen and stomach and aid digestion often contain jujubes; for postpartum conditions such as excessive blood stasis and low milk production, biochemical granules or biochemical pills are often used, and it is best to take them with brown sugar to enhance the effects of nourishing blood, dispelling cold, and removing blood stasis.

Second, get directly to the diseased area. When taking Chinese medicine or Chinese patent medicine to treat kidney deficiency, such as Liuwei Dihuang Pills, Zuogui Pills, Dabuyin Pills, etc., it is best to take them with light salt water. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that salt, because of its salty taste, can lead medicine into the kidneys. As a medicine guide, it can help the medicine reach the lesion directly and better play the role of tonifying the kidney. In addition, there are some specific "guiding meridian medicines" in Chinese herbal decoctions. If you have headaches such as dizziness or headache, lotus leaves and chrysanthemums are often used. If the disease is in the chest, platycodon and trichosanthes are often used. If the disease is in the ribs, bupleurum and green peel are often used. If the disease is in the waist, eucommia and chuanxiong are often used. If the disease is in the upper limbs, cassia twig and mulberry twig are often used. If the disease is in the lower limbs, Achyranthes bidentata and papaya are often used. These can make the medicinal effects "target" the lesion.

What is the function of Chinese herbal medicine? Relieve "toxicity". Heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs are cold in nature and can easily damage the stomach. Traditional Chinese medicines containing shell minerals are difficult to digest and need to be taken with rice soup, which can reduce the irritation of the drugs to the gastrointestinal tract and protect the stomach qi. When using poisonous or strong medicines such as Ginseng and Euphorbia, red dates are often used as a medicine guide to alleviate the toxicity. However, Chinese medicine experts point out that we need to remind everyone that the medicinal ingredients in Chinese medicine prescriptions must be used under the guidance of a doctor and should not be used indiscriminately.