Classification of Chinese Medicines Part 2

According to Classification of Traditional Chinese Medicine Part 1; let’s continue. 

Antirheumatic medicine: Chinese Acupuncture Richmond

All the medicines with the main functions of dispelling wind and dampness, clearing arthralgia, and relieving pain are called rheumatic medicines.

Expelling wind-damp medicine, the vitamin is hard, and nature is more gentle. A few are cold products. Mainly belongs to the liver, spleen, and kidney meridians. It has the functions of dispelling wind and dampness, relaxing tendons and collaterals, relieving pain, and strengthening muscles and bones. It can also be used for bruises and another osteoarthritis.

Rheumatic dampness medicine is mainly used for rheumatic arthralgia syndrome, as well as syndromes with pain in the muscles and bones, the urgency of the muscles and meridians, and unfavorable flexion and extension as the main symptoms.

Dampness medicine: Registered Massage Therapist Richmond

All medicines with the main function of dispelling dampness and transporting the spleen are called herbs for dispelling dampness, also known as aromatizing medicines for dispelling dampness.

Dampness-removing medicine, pungent and warm in nature, mainly belongs to the spleen and stomach meridians. It has the functions of refreshing the spleen and removing dampness, drying dampness, and strengthening the spleen. Some medicines also have the effect of dispelling dampness and relieving summer heat, and can still be used for damp warming and summer-heat diseases.

This class of drugs is mainly used for the symptoms of damp turbidity and internal resistance, dampness in the spleen, abdominal and spleen fullness, vomiting and acid reflux, loose stools, lack of food and fatigue, dry mouth and excessive salivation, white and greasy tongue coating caused by abnormal transportation and transformation. .

Hemostatic: Massage Therapy Richmond

Any drug whose main function is to prevent internal and external bleeding is called a hemostatic drug.

Hemostatic drugs are bitter in taste, astringent in nature, cold in nature, and mild in nature. Mainly belongs to the heart and liver meridians. All have hemostatic effects. According to the different mechanisms of action, they have the effects of cooling blood to stop bleeding, removing blood stasis to stop bleeding, converging and stopping bleeding, and warming meridians to stop bleeding. Mainly used for internal and external bleeding disorders, such as hemoptysis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, hematemesis, blood in the stool, hematuria, metrorrhagia, purpura, and traumatic bleeding.

Blood stasis medicine: RMT Richmond

All medicines whose main function is to smooth blood flow and eliminate blood stasis are called medicines for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, or medicines for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, or medicines for removing blood stasis.

The medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis is more acrid and bitter in taste, and more warm and flat in nature. Mainly belongs to the liver and heart meridians, such as blood. It is good for dispersing and dispersing, and it has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. And through the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, it has the functions of relieving pain, regulating menstruation, breaking blood and eliminating disease, reducing swelling and healing wounds, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling.

This class of drugs is mainly used to treat various diseases of blood stasis. It should have a wide range, covering internal, external, gynecological, pediatric, and trauma departments. Such as blood stasis in the chest, abdomen, head, and body pains and accumulation of internal symptoms in internal medicine; hemiplegia after stroke, numbness of limbs; joint pain for a long time; Swelling and pain, carbuncle and sore; irregular menstruation in gynecology, postpartum stasis and other symptoms.

Phlegm and cough medicine: Registered Massage Services Richmond

All medicines that take phlegm or phlegm as the main function are called phlegm-resolving drugs.

A drug whose main function is to stop or relieve coughing or wheezing is called cough and asthma medicine.

Because phlegm-relieving and cough-relieving and asthma-relieving effects are both, and cough-relieving and anti-asthmatic medicines also have phlegm-relieving effects, the combination of phlegm-relieving and cough-relieving and asthma-relieving drugs

It is called cough and asthma medicine. It is a phlegm-relieving, cough-relieving and anti-asthmatic drug, which is pungent, bitter or sweet, salty, and warm in nature; it mainly belongs to the spleen and lung meridians. Lots of subsidence. It has the functions of warming and dispelling cold phlegm, clearing away heat-phlegm, relieving cough and relieving asthma, etc. Some medicines also have the functions of dispelling wind and phlegm, dispelling cold-dampness, and toning joints: clearing lung heat, calming liver and calming meridians, softening and dispelling stagnation: dispelling lung and lowering qi , lungs and other effects.

This class of drugs treats phlegm and asthma. Among them, the medicine for warming and dispelling cold phlegm: used to treat cold phlegm, cough and asthma, damp phlegm in the middle, wind-phlegm blocking collaterals, yin gangrene, etc.; disease. The cough and asthma medicine: it is used to treat various coughs and asthma caused by exogenous and internal injuries.

Tranquilizers

All drugs that take tranquillize the mind as the main drug and are used to treat the symptoms of mental disorders are called sedatives.

Most of the tranquilizers use ore, shells, or plant seeds as medicines. The drugs of minerals and shells have heavy sedimentation, so they have the effect of calming the nerves. Soothe the nerves, known as nourishing and tranquilizing medicine. More into the heart and liver meridians.

The tranquilizers are mainly used for restlessness, palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness, dreaminess, convulsions, epilepsy, and mania.

Liver calming and wind-quenching medicine

All the medicines with the main effect of calming the liver and subduing the yang, suppressing the wind and relieving spasm are called medicines for calming the liver and suppressing the wind.

This class of medicines are mostly animal and mineral medicines such as mesentery, insects, etc. The taste is salty and bitter, the nature is cold and cool, and it has the property of sinking. Established to return to the main liver meridian. It has the functions of calming the liver and subduing yang, relieving wind and relieving spasm, and calming the nerves.

According to their main functions, the herbs for calming the liver and calming the wind can be divided into two categories: the herbs for calming the liver and subduing yang and the herbs for calming the wind and relieving spasms. It is used for the syndrome of hyperactivity of liver yang and internal movement of liver wind, respectively. However, due to the internal movement of liver wind, liver yang is the most common, and it is more common to relieve wind and stop spasm with the effect of calming the liver and subduing yang, so the two types of drugs are often used in conjunction with each other.

Tonic

All medicines that nourish righteousness, enhance physical fitness, and improve disease resistance, are called tonic medicines, also known as nourishing medicines or tonic medicines.

Tonic medicines, the taste is mainly sweet, with acrid, sour, and salty tastes: the nature is different from cold and dampness (invigorating qi and sweet and warm, nourishing yang, sweet and salty, pungent and warm, nourishing blood and calming cold, and nourishing yin and cold). The five internal organs (including the spleen and lungs, the yang, the kidney, the blood, the heart and the liver, the yin, the lung, the stomach, the liver, and the kidney). Its functions have the functions of nourishing qi, blood, yin and yang respectively.

Tonic medicines are divided into four categories according to their efficacy and main indications: tonifying qi, tonifying yang, nourishing blood and tonifying yin. It is used for qi deficiency, blood deficiency, yin deficiency, and yang deficiency respectively. In addition, the tonic medicine also has the effect of “reinvigorating the righteousness and eliminating the evil spirits”, and it can be used in combination with the evil spirits medicines, and it can also be used for the symptoms that the evil spirits are prospering and declining, or the righteousness is weak and the disease is not exhausted.

Astringent medicine

All medicines with astringency and astringency as the main function are called astringent medicines, and some are called astringent medicines.

This class of drugs has a sour taste, warm or flat nature, and controls the lung, spleen, kidney, and large intestine meridians. Respectively, it has the functions of consolidating the surface to stop sweating, astringing the lungs and relieving cough, astringing the intestines and stopping diarrhea, consolidating the meridians and reducing urine, astringing and stopping bleeding, and stopping the belt.

This class of medicines is mainly used for spontaneous perspiration, night sweats, chronic cough and asthma due to chronic illness, lack of righteousness, and visceral function decline: chronic diarrhea, chronic dysentery: nocturnal emission, slippery semen, enuresis, frequent urination: continuous collapsing, etc. Slipping disease.

Vomiting medicine

Any drug that promotes emesis as the main effect is called emetic drug, also known as emetic drug.

This class of drugs tastes sour, bitter, and cold in nature, and is mostly toxic. It has the effect of vomiting medicine, food and phlegm.

This type of drug is mainly used for accidentally ingesting poisons that stay in the stomach: or the food is stagnant, abdominal distension and pain: or the phlegm fills the chest, diaphragm, and throat. Shortness of breath: It can also be used for epilepsy and madness. The so-called “the taller, so the more.” “It’s surging up.”