2 English reference for clearing heat with cold medicine [Xiangya Medical Dictionary]
Cold drugs treat heat syndrome. Terminology of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2004)]
3. Summarize the principle that heat is cold [1]. Huangdi Neijing: Discussion on Truth. It is pointed out that the principle of cold prescription (or prescription point) should be used to treat heat-induced diseases [2][3]. Heat syndrome is different from exterior syndrome, interior syndrome, deficiency syndrome and excess syndrome, so the treatment also focuses on heat syndrome [3]. Exterior heat syndrome, dispelling wind and heat with pungent and cool; For those with internal heat, the essence is clearing the interior, and the deficiency is nourishing yin to penetrate heat or nourishing yin to clear heat [1].
4 exterior syndrome is also called exterior heat syndrome [2]. Refers to the feeling of exterior syndrome caused by wind-heat and yang evil [4]. That is, wind-heat attacks the muscle surface, with fever, slight aversion to cold, excessive sweating, slight thirst in the mouth, red tongue tip, thin yellow fur, floating pulse, or red, swollen, burning and itchy skin as common symptoms [2]. "Chishui Zhu Xuan on exterior-interior heat": "Those who have exterior heat are called exterior heat." Symptoms include fever, aversion to wind, headache, thirst, sore throat, yellow cough, thin white or yellowish tongue coating, and floating pulse [4]. Treatment should be pungent and cool [4]. Use Sangju drink and Yinqiao powder [4].
5 interior heat syndrome refers to interior heat syndrome [5]. That is, heat pathogen spreads inward, viscera and qi accumulate heat, profuse sweating, thirst leading to drinking, dry mouth and bitter taste, short and red urine, red tongue with yellow coating, and rapid pulse or string number are common symptoms [2]. Most of them are caused by the spread of pathogenic factors or the accumulation of heat in viscera [5]. Symptoms include body heat, sweating, thirst, polydipsia, vexation, bitter taste, short, red and tingling urine, red tongue with yellow coating, and rapid pulse or string number [5]. "Jing Yue Quan Shu" Volume 1: "Those who are hot in the room are full of suffocation, or screaming, or rushing." Treatment should be based on clearing heat and purging fire [5]. Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Syndrome Differentiation of Jueyin says: "When the pulse of typhoid fever slips and syncope, there is heat inside, and Baihu Decoction can cure it." "Four-character Theory on Understanding and Indication of Treatise on Febrile Diseases": "When pathogenic heat enters, it belongs to internal heat. There is little body fluid in Taiyin, dry throat and dry mouth in Shaoyin, and Jue Yin quenches thirst. Zhongjing called it rushing down, but so did Bupleurum and Sanchengqi. "
6 Deficiency heat syndrome Deficiency heat syndrome is also called yin deficiency internal heat syndrome [2]. Refers to heat syndrome caused by deficiency of vital qi [6]. That is, vaginal fluid deficiency, endogenous deficiency heat, with low fever or afternoon hot flashes, hand, foot and heart fever, five-upset fever, red cheekbones, night sweats, dry mouth, constipation, short urination, red tongue with little coating, or bright red without coating and rapid pulse as common symptoms [2]. It's hard to know. What is the difference between heat and deficiency? ":"If the bones are flaccid, the flesh is bright, the muscles are slow, the blood is dry, the skin is astringent, the hair falls, and the deficiency of the five yin is fever, it is deficiency heat. "Most of them are caused by deficiency of qi and blood and yin, or by excess [6]. Symptoms include restlessness, dry mouth and throat, hot flashes, night sweats, constipation, red tongue and rapid pulse [6]. It is advisable to nourish yin and clear heat, or warm the middle and clear heat [6]. Danggui Huang Liu Decoction, Huanglian Ejiao Decoction or Buzhong Yiqi Decoction can be used. Deficiency-heat syndrome can be divided into yin deficiency, yang deficiency, qi deficiency and blood deficiency [6].
7 excess heat syndrome