What are the common Chinese herbal medicines for clearing away heat and detoxification?

With the continuous advancement of science and technology, while we continue to introduce Western medical technology, traditional Chinese medicine is also attracting much attention in the distant West. Traditional Chinese medicine is profound and extensive. All Chinese medicines are derived from everyday organisms and do not require processing, synthesis, or other chemical reactions like Western medicines. At the same time, Chinese herbal medicine pharmacies have no side effects and are safer to take. How much do friends who are fed up with the pain of injections know about traditional Chinese medicine? Today I will introduce to you 12 secret recipes for clearing heat and detoxifying. Let’s take a look.

1. Scrophularia

Scrophularia is the root of Scrophularia and Scrophularia ningpoensis of the Scrophulariaceae family. It contains scrophulariaceae, iridoid glycosides, volatile oils, alkaloids, etc. Pharmacological experiments have shown that Scrophularia water extract, alcohol extract and decoction have the effect of lowering blood pressure. Scrophularia also has the effect of dilating blood vessels and strengthening the heart. Invasive agents from various Scrophularia scraps have sedative and anticonvulsant effects.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and has the functions of nourishing yin and reducing fire, cooling blood and detoxifying. It is suitable for symptoms such as fever, thirst, rashes, bone steaming and fatigue fever, restless sleep, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, loss of body fluid and constipation, and sore throat.

Dosage: 6-12 grams; but it is not recommended for patients with loose stools and excessive phlegm.

2. Cassia seed

Cassia seed is the seed of the leguminous plant Cassia leaf stew or Cassia, which contains anthracene esters and anthraquinone glycosides, cassia bark and vitamin A. Pharmacological experiments have shown that Cassia seed can lower blood pressure and serum cholesterol; it has the effects of resisting multiple pathogens and softening stools.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is slightly cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and has the function of clearing the liver and improving eyesight, promoting diuresis and relieving constipation. It is suitable for red and painful eyes, photophobia and excessive tears caused by liver heat or wind-heat in the liver meridian. In addition, it is also effective in treating hypertension, hepatitis, ascites due to cirrhosis and habitual constipation.

Dosage: 3-9 grams, crush and decoct.

3. Lycium bark

The bark of Lycium barbarum is the root bark of Lycium barbarum, a plant of the Solanaceae family. It contains cinnamic acid, various phenolic substances, betaine and linoleic acid. The bark of Lycium bark has a significant antipyretic effect, and its decoction can lower blood sugar, lower serum cholesterol and has the effect of resisting fatty liver. The infusion of Lycium bark has a significant effect of lowering blood pressure in animals.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature, sweet and light in taste, and has the functions of cooling blood, relieving steaming, and clearing away lung heat. It is suitable for consumptive hot flashes and night sweats, cough and asthma due to lung heat, vomiting blood, epistaxis, carbuncles and ulcers due to blood heat, as well as tuberculosis and hypertension.

The functions of this type of Chinese herbal medicine are to clear internal heat, eliminate heat toxins in the body, cool the blood and relieve heat. It is generally used for symptoms of hot constitution and internal heat. The theory of traditional Chinese medicine is very profound. Each Chinese medicine has its unique effect, and different combinations have different pharmacological effects. Therefore, friends who need to take Chinese medicine should also treat it specifically according to their own constitution.