It is worth pointing out that this prescription has been listed as an "insect repellent" in the works of doctors in past dynasties. After the Qing Dynasty, this view became more obvious, especially in Wang Ang's works, such as Brother Tangtou and Fang Yi Ji Jie. Among them, Wu Mei Pill is listed as the first prescription of "pesticide". Chen Xiuyuan's medical enlightenment book "Medical Sanzi Jing" also said that Wu Mei Pill was used to treat "insect pain". Another example is the "Medical Prescription Examination": "Mume tastes sour, but it is soft; Even the cypress tastes bitter, and it succumbs to it. Pepper and asarum are pungent, which makes people bow to death. " At present, Wang Ang's classification method is still used in the teaching materials of Chinese medicine colleges all over the country. Note: "Wu Mei Pill is the main prescription for treating diseases". The handout also lists this prescription as "insecticide". As for clinical application, it is only added and subtracted according to its general prescription.
In fact, Wu Mei Pill is one of the main prescriptions for treating Jueyin disease. Although it is listed in Treatise on Febrile Diseases, it is not specially designed for killing insects, but is used to regulate the mixed symptoms of cold and heat in Jueyin disease, and control is only one of the functions of Wu Mei Pill. Qin Yun, Qingke: "Zhongjing Prescription was originally a method for treating various syndromes of Jueyin, and Shu He was compiled under the rule of vomiting, which made people suspect that there was a main prescription of Jueyin. In view of the fact that its medication conforms to various syndromes ... is it just a symptom of vomiting? " It can be said that it is a hit. Wu Jutong clearly pointed out that Wu Mei Pill is "a panacea for treating Jue Yin, preventing shaoyang and protecting Yangming" (the contact information of the author is in the picture and text).
Jueyin is the exhaustion of three yin, and yin is the prosperity of yang. Typhoid pathogen enters Jueyin, and its diseases are mostly mixed with cold and heat, and deficiency and excess are common. Neijing said: "Above Jue Yin, Qi is the master." Tang Rongchuan said: "The cold and heat of Jueyin are always fanned by the atmosphere, so Wu Mei Pill is used to collect the atmosphere, and other drugs also regulate the cold and heat." "Wind evil without anchor. If the yang enters the yin and retreats, the wind will turn from the yang to the heat, showing symptoms such as excessive eating and less syncope, vomiting during eating, and decreased interest in abdominal pain. According to the prescription of Wu Mei Pill, it is based on the characteristics of Jueyin disease. "Ma Mei Pill Cube" Qing Ke Yunbo pointed out: "Six meridians are only difficult to treat Jueyin, its root yin, its standard heat, its body wood, its use of fire, its first cause ... Zhongjing Cube, all bitter and bitter, without acid mining, those who use it, Jueyin liver-treating bacteria ... Jun Wu Mei's big acid, is the main one. "It is also the first cause that Huanglian purges the heart and detumescence, and Huangbai nourishes the kidney and quenches thirst; The kidney is the mother of the liver, and the pepper is attached to warm the kidney, so the fire will return and nourish the liver, which is to consolidate its foundation ... "It shows that Zhongjing conforms to the meaning of" its abundance must be preceded by its cause "and is a prescription for the syndrome of syncope of cold and heat.