1, rhubarb can relieve gastrointestinal stagnation, poor stool and other symptoms.
The primary effect of rhubarb is diarrhea and accumulation, in fact, it is defecation and indigestion. The ancients believed that rhubarb had the effect of cleaning people's stomach and intestines, promoting human metabolism, and had a good effect on relieving poor stool and poor gastrointestinal transport caused by excess heat, food accumulation, insect accumulation and dysentery.
For example, due to excessive excess heat in the body, the intestine and stomach are hot and dry, and constipation is blocked, so rhubarb can be used together with Fructus Aurantii Immaturus, Natrii Sulfas, Magnolia Officinalis, Scutellaria baicalensis, etc., which can best clear the heat in the body, remove the dryness in the intestine and stomach and solve the disease of poor stool.
If dysentery is caused by damp-heat in the stomach and diarrhea is red and white, and the bowels are urgent and then heavy, rhubarb can also be used to cleanse damp-heat in the stomach and intestines. The ancients only used rhubarb to decoct with wine, which could relieve the symptoms of dampness and dysentery. In addition, rhubarb can also be used together with Radix Aucklandiae, Cortex Magnolia Officinalis, Radix Glycyrrhizae and other medicinal materials, and it is also effective.
However, in the case of indigestion of gastrointestinal tract and obstruction of stool caused by food accumulation and insect accumulation in the body, you can directly drink tea with about 5g of raw rhubarb, which usually takes about 30 minutes to take effect and has the effect of promoting parasites to be discharged with stool.
2. rhubarb can relieve the symptoms of heat toxic sores, blood stasis and so on.
Rhubarb is a medicine for bitter and cold subsidence, which can cause fire to descend and heat conduction to leak out, so it also has a good effect on relieving heat toxicity in the body. Especially for the symptoms of heat, toxin and fire evil in the head and face, rhubarb is the most effective.
For example, the symptoms such as redness, swelling and pain caused by heat toxin and fire pathogen on the head and face can be relieved by compatibility of rhubarb with Gardenia, Scutellaria baicalensis, Cimicifuga rhizome and other medicinal materials; If there are symptoms such as sore throat and sore mouth, rhubarb can be decocted with honey, which can be slowed down. For other sores and swelling caused by heat toxicity, rhubarb powder can be mixed with wine or vinegar for external application, and peach kernel, cortex moutan, mirabilite, burdock and other medicinal materials can be used together for oral administration, all of which have effects.
In addition, rhubarb can also play the role of cooling blood and promoting blood circulation in addition to the heat of blood.
For example, hemoptysis, hematemesis and nosebleeds caused by blood heat can be effectively treated with rhubarb combined with drugs such as Coptidis Rhizoma, Scutellariae Radix, Radix Rehmanniae, and Sophora japonica charcoal. For the syndrome of blood stasis, rhubarb can be used together with safflower, peach kernel, angelica, leech, Ligusticum wallichii, Paeonia lactiflora and other medicinal materials, which also has the effect of dispelling blood stasis and relieving pain.
3. rhubarb can relieve the symptoms of damp-heat and stranguria in the body.
Rhubarb is bitter and cold, and it is good at descending. At the same time, it can guide the damp heat in the body to come out with urine. Therefore, some diseases such as excessive damp heat in the body, stagnant water and unsmooth stranguria can also be alleviated by rhubarb.
For example, jaundice caused by excessive damp-heat in the body is common, and rhubarb can be used equally with Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Fructus Gardeniae, Cortex Phellodendri and Natrii Sulfas to promote diuresis and relieve Huang Zhi. For urine stranguria caused by damp-heat accumulation in lower energizer, rhubarb can also be used together with herbs such as Plantago, Akebia Akebia, Talcum and Dianthium, and its effect of promoting diuresis and stranguria is also good.
Due to the bitter and cold nature of rhubarb, its dosage is generally not too large, as little as 3-5g for medicine, and at most it is about 10- 15g. The efficacy of rhubarb processed products for different diseases is also different. For example, raw rhubarb has a strong ability to diarrhea and is good at diarrhea; Cooked rhubarb is weak in diarrhea, so it is good at clearing heat and detoxifying; Wine-baked rhubarb has a strong effect of promoting blood circulation, and it is better at clearing heat, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis; Rhubarb charcoal tends to stop bleeding, so it is good at clearing blood heat and stopping bleeding.