Classification of Traditional Chinese Medicine Part 1

Epidemic drug： Traditional Chinese Medicine Richmond

Any drug whose main function is to disperse evil and relieve symptoms is called the anti-exotic drug, also known as the published drug.

In this class of drugs, its taste is mainly acrid, both sweet and bitter. Mainly enters the lung and bladder meridians, and has the functions of penetrating the hair orifices, sweating, and relieving the surface. According to their properties, flavors, and functions, external-relieving medicines can be divided into two types: dispersing wind-cold and dissipating wind-heat. Some medicines also have other effects such as diuresis and swelling, cough and asthma, rash, pain relief, or sore relief. Therefore, it is suitable for edema, cough and asthma, measles, rubella, rheumatic arthralgia, early onset of sores, and both symptoms.

Heat-clearing medicine

All medicines with the main function of clearing away internal heat are called heat-clearing medicines.

Heat-clearing medicines are cold in nature, mainly in the five internal organs, and also in the stomach and large intestine. According to the main performance and efficacy of the drug, the different types of heat syndrome, and the qi or blood components of the internal heat, heat-clearing drugs can be divided into heat-clearing and expelling gunpowder, heat-clearing and dampness-clearing, heat-cooling and blood-clearing drugs, heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs, and deficient-heat-clearing drugs. And so on five categories.

This type of medicine is mainly suitable for the syndromes of internal heat, such as exogenous fever, high fever and polydipsia, damp-heat diarrhea, warm toxins and spots, bloated sores, and internal heat due to yin deficiency.

laxative: Traditional Chinese Medicine Vancouver

Any drug that can cause diarrhea, or lubricate the large intestine and promote defecation, is called a laxative.

Most of these drugs are bitter and cold in nature and flavor, a few are sweet and flat, and some are pungent and warm, and acrid and hot. Mainly belongs to the stomach and large intestine meridians. Some drugs are poisonous, and some drugs are highly toxic. According to the characteristics of the action and the different scope of use, it can be divided into three categories: attacking, moisturizing and water-repelling. effect.

This class of drugs is suitable for constipation, gastrointestinal stagnation, food heat, edema, and stopping drinking.

Digestive medicine

All medicines that take digestion and promote stagnation and promote digestion as the main function are called Xiaoshi medicines, also known as Xiaoshi medicines.
Most of the Xiaoshi medicines are sweet in taste and flat in nature, mainly belong to the spleen and stomach meridians, and function to digest food stagnation, appetizer, and middle.

This class of drugs is mainly used for the symptoms of dietary stagnation (epigastric fullness, acid ingestion, nausea and vomiting, inability to eat, constipation, and indigestion due to weakness of the spleen and stomach.

Anthelmintic: Acupuncture Services Richmond

Any drug that deworms or kills parasites in the human body is called an anthelmintic.

This class of medicines is mainly sweet, bitter, and acrid in nature and taste, and is cold and warm in nature. It has toxic and paralytic effects on parasites in the human body (mainly in the intestinal tract) and promotes their excretion from the body. Some drugs have the effect of killing worms in other parts of the human body, such as schistosomiasis, trichomonas vaginalis, etc., and some anthelmintic drugs also have the effect of killing.

The anthelmintic group should be used for the treatment of intestinal parasitic diseases, such as ascariasis, enterobiasis, threadworm disease, hookworm disease, fascioliasis, etc., such as abdominal pain around the umbilicus, lack of appetite or hunger and more food, If you are addicted to eating foreign objects, you will experience weight loss, pale complexion exposed large blue veins in the abdomen, edema and other symptoms for a long time. Some medicines can also be used to treat chancre in children.

Qi-regulating medicine: ICBC Massage Richmond

All medicines with the main function of smoothing the steam engine, eliminating qi stagnation and qi inversion are called Qi-regulating medicines.

Qi-regulating drugs, the taste is mainly pungent and bitter; the nature is mostly warm, and there are few cold ones. Mainly belongs to the spleen, stomach, lung, liver, and other meridians. Such medicines are mostly atmospheric medicines and can be divided into qi-activating medicines and generic medicines. Its function is to relax miracles, regulate qi and has the functions of regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, soothing liver balance, regulating qi and widening the chest, promoting qi and relieving pain, breaking qi and dissipating stagnation, reducing inversion and relieving vomiting, etc. It has a synergistic effect on activating blood, nourishing, resolving phlegm, removing dampness, purging, warming, and other drugs.

This class of drugs is mainly used for the stagnation of lung qi, the fullness of chest and diaphragm, cough and asthma; stagnation of spleen and stomach qi, abdominal fullness, hiccups, and vomiting; stagnation of liver qi and chest pain, and irregular menstruation.

Warm medicine: Cloud Health Richmond

All the medicines with the main function of warming the inside and dispelling the cold are called medicines for warming inside, also called medicines for dispelling cold.

This class of medicines is sweet in taste and warm in nature. It mainly focuses on the heart, kidney, spleen and stomach meridians. Functions: Warm the middle and dispel cold, return the yang to save the inverse, and have the functions of warming the meridian and relieving pain.

This class of drugs is mainly used to treat internal cold symptoms, such as spleen and stomach cold or spleen and stomach deficiency-cold syndrome; liver meridian cold coagulation less abdominal cold pain, cold hernia pain or Jueyin headache, etc.; kidney yin deficiency, impotence, uterine cold, waist and knee cold pain; Palpitations, difficulty urinating, edema of limbs; as well as those with dead yang Jue inverse syndrome, and the pulse is dying.

Diuretic dampness medicine

Fantoni waterway, the main role of the drug infiltration of water and dampness, is called diuresis and dampness medicine.

This type of medicine is mostly sweet and bland, and its nature is cold. It mainly belongs to the kidney, bladder, and small intestine meridians, and also belongs to the heart, lung, liver, gallbladder, and spleen meridians. The main function is to infiltrate dampness and dampness, and it can also clear dampness and heat, and can relieve diarrhea, relieve stranguria, reduce swelling, and reduce jaundice.
This type of medicine is mainly used to treat water-damp diseases, such as edema, dysuria, stranguria, phlegm drinking, diarrhea, jaundice, damp temperature, wet sores, vaginal discharge, damp arthritis and other diseases.