Seven flavors? With five liters of water, first boil ephedra once or twice, remove the foam, put all the medicine in, boil one liter of eight, go to me and take Liuhe warmly. Benyun, Guizhi decoction, Mahuang decoction, Liuhe, sudden service. Interest will be paid as above.
This article can illustrate the rigor and accuracy of typhoid prescriptions. The face is hot, and the sun certificate is still there. Sweating is Guizhi decoction, but not sweating is Mahuang decoction. Itching means that the sweat has reached the skin and will soon come out. Are you sweating or not sweating at this time? It is between sweating and not sweating, so Guizhi Mahuang Decoction is used. It can be seen that the strict dosage of classical prescriptions cannot be subjective and arbitrary.
Some people say that the prescriptions in typhoid fever are good at treating exogenous diseases. If it is a cold, the effect is very good. If it is not a cold, the effect is not obvious. Whether this is true or not depends on whether you have such strict laws when treating chronic diseases. Generally speaking, it is good to choose a similar prescription for the so-called classic prescription. As for the doctors of later generations, the same patient, this doctor is such a set of prescriptions, and that doctor is such a set of prescriptions; Medication is also subjective. This doctor likes to use these drugs, and that doctor likes to use those drugs. The dose of this doctor is 6 grams and 10 grams, and that doctor is 20 grams and 30 grams. This can only explain one problem. Later generations of Chinese medicine did not have an exact system at all. Everyone worked out their own ways and relied on their own understanding. At present, the theory of five elements of zang-fu organs is the mainstream. Is this theory correct? That's right. Of course, there is a relationship between zang-fu organs, just as trees affect rivers and rivers affect fields, but when the dry season comes, they are all short of water. It can't be said that the five elements are wrong, and its function is too small relative to the exterior-interior circulation of the human body. Using this principle to form a prescription to treat diseases is tantamount to playing with the arm of a gladiator. How can it be effective? Therefore, later generations of Chinese medicine practitioners themselves said that Chinese medicine can only regulate but not cure diseases. When people prescribe drugs, they only take a dozen or twenty doses, and even after taking them for several months, there is no obvious effect. Here's what happened.
Take this prescription as an example to talk about how to treat chronic diseases with classic prescriptions.
We know that western medicine has no specific medicine for intractable skin diseases such as urticaria and herpes zoster. No matter what kind of virus or herpes it is, we all think the problem is simple. All herpes is actually what this article says. When water can't get out of the skin, herpes is formed. If it is sun syndrome, we can treat it with Guizhi Mahuang Decoction. I have used this prescription to treat many skin diseases, all of which can be cured by three or five doses of medicine.
I have a friend who has a doctor at home. He came back from a trip to Thailand and got urticaria. After taking Chinese medicine for more than a year, it is still better and not cured. He usually doesn't dare to eat onion, ginger, garlic and seafood, saying it's hair. I have never been able to cure this disease. Not only can't help it, but Mahuang Guizhi Ginger itself is the most creepy thing. It is good to show the symptoms, which is the adaptive thought of Taoism. My friend's prescription is full of peony bark, cortex Dictamni Radicis, honeysuckle flower, rehmannia root and so on. It is said that it is clear blood and fever, but it has not been clear for more than a year. This is the thinking of later generations of Chinese medicine, which does not regard the human body as a whole, but draws a partial conclusion: "blood fever", and then uses drugs to fight and eliminate this blood fever. Why can't it be cured? I have already said the principle in the preface. Treating lesions with medicine in western medicine is the same as treating "diseases" with medicine in traditional Chinese medicine later. This is just pot calling the kettle black.
When we use drugs to strengthen the spleen and cool blood, we are already acting on behalf of the human body. How can drugs replace the human body itself? The so-called root-seeking does not mean that the disease is a liver problem, but that the disease is a kidney problem, that is, root-seeking, but ask again, why is there a problem with the liver? Why is there a problem with the kidney? You didn't eat less meat and sleep less than others, and even took a lot of drugs to tonify kidney and clear liver. Why is there a problem? Still have to go back to the big circulation of the human body. The idea of "typhoid fever" is to focus on the great circulation of the human body, so "typhoid fever" does not talk about the liver, kidney, blood and qi. Again, the human body has its own medicine, which needs to be supplemented by the human body. We only use drugs to restore human order, not to act on behalf of the human body. This is Taoist adaptive medicine.