Note: Elsholtzia is slightly warm and pungent. Enter the lung and stomach meridians. Has that effect of sweating, relieve exterior syndrome, eliminating dampness, regulating middle energizer, induce diuresis and relieving swelling. It is used for relieving exterior sweating, and should not be decocted for a long time. It is used for diuresis and swelling reduction. Clinical use: < P > 1. Treatment of common cold and wind-cold: Take this product for pungent warming, sweating, relieving exterior syndrome and dispelling cold. It can be combined with magnolia officinalis and lentils, such as Elsholtzia powder.
2. To treat edema, take this product to strengthen the spleen, eliminate dampness, promote diuresis and reduce swelling. It can be combined with Atractylodes macrocephala, etc. to treat edema due to spleen deficiency and dampness, such as Zhuyu Pill.
3. For vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and spleen and stomach discomfort, it can be combined with Magnolia officinalis and Atractylodes lancea.
4. It has been reported that this product can be used to treat gastrointestinal cold, nephritis and edema caused by cold-dampness injury.
5. medication experience: Elsholtzia has pungent and sweaty effects, and is a commonly used drug in summer, especially for summer heat-dampness cold with wind-cold exterior syndrome. Elsholtzia has the effect of penetrating up and down, and it is the best to treat moisture, so that the lungs can be cleared and the heat can be released from the bottom. Elsholtzia is used to treat summer heat injury to facilitate urination. Doctors in past dynasties listed Elsholtzia as an important medicine for treating summer diseases. Excessive enjoying the cool in summer and eating cold drinks in summer heat led to yang being forced by yin evil, which led to headache, aversion to cold and fever, irritability, thirst and vomiting blood. At this time, Elsholtzia and dried ginger are used to disperse yang, disperse water and damp spleen. Achieve therapeutic purposes; If you don't eat properly, heatstroke caused by overwork will cause great thirst and fever, sweating like rain, dysphoria and shortness of breath, or vomiting and diarrhea will be the syndrome of internal injuries caused by overwork. It is not suitable to use Elsholtzia, and ginseng and white tiger soup must be used to purge fire and benefit yuan. If Elsholtzia is used, it will cause sweating and hurt its vitality. Elsholtzia is an antidote in summer, so it is said that "Herba Ephedrae is used in winter and Elsholtzia is used in summer". Elsholtzia has a fragrant smell and a light texture, which can relieve the cold in the exterior. It can reach the triple energizer. Infusion of bladder is beneficial to urination, so as to guide the water in the body. Elsholtzia can activate yang, warm yang and eliminate dampness, and it is not as cold as limbs. It cannot be treated with dried ginger, aconite root and Evodia rutaecarpa, but it must be treated with Elsholtzia effect. Elsholtzia can open the ghost door, release lung qi, clear the spleen, relieve urination, eliminate edema, and activate yang. Elsholtzia serrata combined with Herba Hedyotidis Diffusae, Herba Leonuri, and Cortex Zingiberis Recens has a good therapeutic effect on edema caused by nephrotic syndrome.
Caution: This product has strong sweating power, and it has sweating due to exterior deficiency, so it is forbidden for patients with yin.
Pharmacological study: The volatile oil of Elsholtzia has antipyretic effect, can stimulate intestinal peristalsis, and has diuretic, antitussive, expectorant, antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal effects.