Pueraria lobata: first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica"
Its nature and flavor are meridional, cool, pungent and sweet. Returns to the spleen and stomach meridians. Pueraria lobata (used raw, good at relieving muscle and reducing fever, promoting body fluids, quenching thirst, and clearing up rash); Simmered Pueraria lobata (used raw, good at promoting yang and stopping diarrhea).
Basic functions: relieve muscles and reduce fever, relieve measles, produce body fluids and quench thirst, promote yang and stop diarrhea.
Clinical Application
1. Used for patients with external syndrome and strong neck and back pain
This product is sweet and pungent in nature and cool in nature. It returns to the spleen and stomach meridian, so it has muscle-relieving effect. The antipyretic effect can be used not only for superficial fever, but also for strong pain and contracture in the neck and back. Usage and treatment:
① Symptoms of wind-cold syndrome, severe fever, mild aversion to cold, headache and no sweat, etc., often combined with Bupleurum, Scutellaria baicalensis, etc., such as Chaige Jieji Decoction ("Shanghan Liu Liu") Book");
②For exogenous wind-cold symptoms such as no sweating and strong pain in the neck and back, it is often combined with ephedra, cassia twig, etc., such as Gegen Decoction ("Treatise on Febrile Diseases");
③Exogenous infection For sweating, bad wind, and strong pain in the neck and back caused by wind evil, it is often combined with cassia twig, white peony root, etc., such as Guizhi plus Gegen decoction ("Treatise on Febrile Diseases"). .14
2. Used for opaque measles
This product is a pungent and cool dispersant that can disperse superficial evil and penetrate the rash. It is used to treat the initial onset of measles or poor hair penetration. It is often combined with Cimicifuga, peony, and licorice, which is Cimicifuga Gegen Decoction ("Yan's Pediatric Formula").
3. Used for thirst due to fever and quenching thirst due to yin deficiency
This product is sweet and cool, can increase clear yang, produce fluid, and quench thirst. Usage: ① For fever and thirst, it is often combined with reed root, trichosanthes, etc.; for quenching thirst, it is often combined with yam, astragalus, etc., such as Yuye Decoction ("Yi Zhong Shen Xi Lu").
4. Used for diarrhea caused by damp-heat and spleen deficiency.
This product, when simmered, can promote spleen and stomach clearing yang and stop diarrhea and dysentery. Treatment: ① Damp-heat diarrhea, often used together with skullcap, coptis and licorice, namely Pueraria lobata, Huangqin and Huanglian decoction ("Treatise on Febrile Diseases"); spleen deficiency and diarrhea, combined with ginseng, Atractylodes, etc., such as Qiwei Atractylodes Powder ("Pediatric Medicine Zhijue") "
5. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" records that Pueraria lobata "maintains all kinds of paralysis". "Zhu Liangchun's Medication Experience" states that Pueraria lobata "controls various diseases". To treat cervical vertebra hyperplasia, 30-45g of Pueraria lobata must be used. Pueraria lobata is believed to be able to "treat bone paralysis, relieve spasm and unblock meridians".
6. Used for excessive heat toothache< /p>
The odor of Pueraria lobata is weak, and it can be dispersed by the spleen and stomach meridians. Pueraria lobata can dissipate stagnant fire. Just as the "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that Pueraria lobata "disperses stagnant fire", and the "Medicine of Medicine" clearly states that Pueraria lobata cures it. "Fire in the stomach causes toothache and bad breath." Therefore, in addition to dispersing external evils and promoting rash, Puerarin can also be used for wind-fire and stomach-fire toothache
Modern clinical application of puerarin injection. The liquid treats cardiovascular and cerebrovascular system diseases; when combined with other medicines, it can treat diabetes, cervical spondylosis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular system diseases, diarrhea and other diseases.
Herbal summary:
Pueraria lobata. , Xuan, relieve muscles, promote yang, dissipate fire
Pungent, sweet, neutral in nature, enter Yangming Meridian, invigorate stomach Qi to ascend, produce body fluid and quench thirst. It can only quench thirst. It can increase stomach qi and enter the lungs to produce body fluids. It also enters the spleen meridian, relieves sweating, and relieves muscles.
It is used to treat weak spleen and stomach muscles. Sacred medicine. The "Jing" says: If the Qing Qi is low, it will cause diarrhea. Pueraria Mirifica can promote Yang Ming Qi. It can treat Yang Ming headache and Zhang Yue's headache. If it is Yang Ming apoplexy, you can use Pueraria lobata. For those who suffer from headaches before the onset of Yangming due to Taiyang, do not take Shengge Decoction to treat the problem, as this will induce evil energy to enter Yangming.
Zhongjing treats combined illnesses of Taiyang and Yangming, add Guizhi Decoction with Pueraria lobata and Radix Puerariae. Ephedra. There is also Pueraria lobata, Scutellaria baicalensis and Huanglian Jieji decoction, which is used to break the path of the sun into Yangming.
For blood dysentery and warm malaria, Danxi said: What should be used to treat malaria without sweating. For sweating, the main purpose is to dispel evil, and tonify the symptoms; if there is sweating, it should be non-sweating, and to strengthen the body and tonify it. If there is sweating due to impotence, add ginseng, qi, and atractylodes to restrain it; if there is no sweating, add qin, kudzu, and atractylodes to relieve it. .
Intestinal wind and acne rash can cause acne. Dan Xi said: If the rash has red spots, do not take Shengge Decoction for fear that it will cause acne. Qi, dissipates stagnant fire, and relieves alcohol poisoning. Pueraria lobata is particularly good for defecation, and can kill hundreds of poisons. It can be used to treat excessive stomach qi and relieve severe febrile diseases. Heat, vomiting and bleeding.
Most middle-aged and elderly people nowadays like to soak Pueraria lobata in water or take Pueraria lobata powder to prevent and regulate cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and blood sugar. However, people with weak stomachs must pay attention. This product is cool in nature and may cause indigestion, stomachache, etc. after taking it.
Attached is a tea recipe: 6-10 grams of Pueraria lobata flowers, soaked in water.
Efficacy: antidote to alcohol poisoning. It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as headache, dizziness, polydipsia, vomiting, and chest and diaphragm swelling due to excessive drinking.
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