"Warm Disease School" is an important academic school of traditional Chinese medicine, which sprouted in the Han and Tang Dynasties, grew up in the Jin Yuan, and was formed in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The essence of temperature disease is external fever, and the main symptom is fever caused by temperature evil, which leads to obvious heat image, dryness and yin, and the disease can be contagious, with obvious characteristics such as regional and seasonality
Temperature disease is distinguished according to the season, there are spring temperature, summer heat, autumn dryness, winter plague, and the main way of infection is from the fur and from the mouth and nose. At present, there are many respiratory diseases in China, including influenza A, influenza B, mycoplasma pneumonia and other diseases, which belong to the category of warm diseases in traditional Chinese medicine.
There are many famous prescriptions and famous medicines for warm diseases, which are very common, account for a large proportion of medicines, and have a lot of prescriptions, but they are a light and fluttering medicinal material - light bamboo leaves.
Light bamboo leaves, first recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", sweet, light, cold, return to the heart, stomach, small intestine meridian, can clear heat, detoxification, diuretic, remove annoyance
Light bamboo leaves are also known as pheasant rice, small bamboo grass, broken bones, etc., and have 4 characteristics:
1. Strong fecundity and wide distributionThere are barbs on the seeds, sticking to people's clothes and livestock fur, and they are bred in **, one by one, and they are distributed in many places across the country.
2. First it is harmful to the grass, and then it becomes the beneficial grassIn the past, when farmers saw light bamboo leaves, they must remove them, because they will compete with crops for nutrition, and now they have become a commonly used medicinal material and planted on a large scale.
3. It is convenient to enter the medicine and has great value, fresh and light bamboo leaves can be boiled and drunk in water, eliminate fatigue, eliminate phlegm cough, can be used as tea after drying, into the traditional Chinese medicine formula, can detoxify, clear heat, dispel wind, remove insects, many prescriptions of warm disease have light bamboo leaves, is the medicine "evergreen".
4. The whole body is a treasure, and the family is always available, light bamboo leaves can be used as some miscellaneous home remedies for menstrual medicine, can be boiled porridge, wine, as pasture, as herbal tea, even if burned into grass ash, it is also a very good anthelmintic medicine, the most unfortunate is also the best fertilizer in the eyes of farmers.
Light bamboo leaves are not bamboo leaves, they are often engagedMix. The plants grow relatively low, with thin leaves, only 30-50 cm tall; The bamboo leaves grow tall and the leaves are thicker, and they are called "fresh bamboo leaves" in medicine. Light bamboo leaves and bamboo leaves, the two have different properties and tastes, and cannot be mixed. Comparatively speaking, light bamboo leaves are more widely used, and bamboo leaves in traditional Chinese medicine stores are not specially labeled, generally referring to light bamboo leaves.
The earliest effect of light bamboo leaves is to treat mouth ulcers, which are mostly found on the tongue, lips, and the inner wall of the mouth. The heart is open to the tongue, and there is an ulcer on the tongue, indicating that the heart is on fire, and the heart and the small intestine are each other's surface and inside, and the ulcer also reflects that the small intestine has fire, and the small intestine has fire that affects the spleen, and the spleen is open to the mouth. In traditional Chinese medicine, light bamboo leaves are the "special medicine" for mouth ulcers and are gradually recognized.
Later, traditional Chinese medicine found that light bamboo leaves are widely distributed, easy to obtain medicinal materials, easy to concoct, and have obvious efficacy, and slowly become a commonly used medicine, and found that it has 5 advantages, specifically "four clear and one pass":
1. Clear air and heat separationThis is an important symptom of warm disease, called the evil of wary qi, strong infectivity, rapid onset, with Yang Ming heat is more common, light bamboo leaves are the main medicine, can be light to clear the qi, get rid of the warm evil, clear the qi heat, to achieve the purpose of clearing heat and removing annoyance, and quenching thirst.
2. The heat of the heart fireThis is a common disease of the old, middle and young, not only the mouth and tongue are phlegm, but also upset chest tightness and thirst, light bamboo leaves are good at clearing the heart and removing troubles.
3. Clears the dampness and heat of the stomach, light bamboo leaves can be with the stomach, Tongli under the coke, Xuan ventilator, clear the stomach fire, chase away dampness and heat, and prevent the consumption of wounds.
4. Clear the lungs of depression and heat, mainly wind and heat disease, mostly enter from the mouth and nose, commit the lungs, dissolve dryness, hurt yin, light bamboo leaves can relieve the depressive evil of the guard, cure the loss of lung qi.
5. Drenching and diuretic, light bamboo leaves on the heart of the fire, down the urine, for the urine short, red, astringent and painful has a good effect.
Clinically, the compatibility of light bamboo leaves is mostly seen in:
Light bamboo leaves + wood, rehmannia root, licorice, diuretic, detoxification, urination.
Light bamboo leaves + gypsum, the residual heat in the later stage of the warm disease was repeatedly troubled, and it was proved that it was treated by Yangming.
Light bamboo leaves + kudzu, the real heat of the retreat and the Ming meridian, and the symptoms are medium and low fever, and the effect is fast.
Light bamboo leaves + coptisto treat mouth ulcers.
Light bamboo leaves + coix seeds, which may relieve shingles symptoms.
Light bamboo leaves + burdock seeds, cure sore throat and reduce the fire of the heart and lungs.
Light bamboo leaves have the reputation of treating "four rotten", all rotten hands, rotten feet, rotten mouth, rotten ** disease, modern called hand, foot and mouth disease, with infectious diseases, with light bamboo leaves can alleviate the condition, just like modern anti-infection, anti-virus, also called "four rotten nemesis".
However, light bamboo leaves are cold, and those with cold in the body, kidney deficiency and frequent urination are prohibited, and pregnant women cannot use them, nor should they be eaten with drugs and spicy foods that supplement yang and help yang. Before taking medication, you must follow your doctor's instructions.