Efficacy of rhubarb
Purging heat and dredging intestines, cooling blood and detoxifying, removing blood stasis and dredging menstruation. Used for: constipation due to excess heat, abdominal pain due to stagnation, diarrhea, yellow gangrene due to damp heat, vomiting due to blood heat, red eyes, swollen throat, abdominal pain due to intestinal carbuncle, furuncle, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, traumatic injury, and external treatment of fire and water burns; Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
taboo
Deficiency of spleen and stomach, weakness of qi and blood, gangrene, postpartum, menstrual period and lactation should be taken with caution, and pregnant women are forbidden to take it.
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Rhubarb has another alias, such as gold does not change. Use roots and rhizomes as medicine. Rhubarb is the collective name of many perennial plants of Polygonaceae and the name of Chinese herbal medicine. In the literature of China, "Rhubarb" often refers to Rhubarb.
Rhubarb is one of the four major Chinese medicines in China, also known as Huoshen, Jin Mu, Bangmen and Mianwen. It has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for a long time, and it was first published in Shennong Herbal Classic, the earliest existing pharmaceutical monograph in China. It was named because of its yellow color. Rhubarb tastes bitter and cold, and its medicinal properties are fierce, so it is known as the "general".
Materia Medica has been collected in all previous dynasties: "Qian Jin Fang" called rhubarb as Jinwen rhubarb; "Wupu Materia Medica" called rhubarb Huangliang; Li Dangzhi's Medicine Record called him a general; The Manual of Chinese Herbal Medicine is called Sichuan Army. Tibetan is called "Junmuzha". Rhubarb has the functions of purgation and accumulation, clearing heat and purging fire, detoxifying and stopping bleeding, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and clearing away damp heat.
It is widely used to treat constipation, carbuncle, furuncle, swelling and pain in the eyes, mumps, various bleeding, blood stasis amenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain, traumatic injury, damp-heat diarrhea, jaundice, edema, apoplexy and phlegm confusion, etc., and has the functions of cleaning the gastrointestinal tract, promoting innovation and calming the five internal organs.
Although there are many uses of rhubarb, there are also many precautions when using it. Some people can't use rhubarb, so we need to find out. The big application is very early, and we all need to understand it clearly.
Functional indication
Purging heat and toxic materials, breaking stagnation and promoting blood stasis. Treat constipation due to excess heat, delirium, indigestion, dysentery at the beginning, acute diarrhea and then severe diarrhea, blood stasis, amenorrhea, abdominal mass, fever, sudden eye pain, hematemesis, epistaxis, yellow yang, edema, stranguria, carbuncle, swollen and toxic. Purging heat and dredging intestines, cooling blood and detoxifying, removing blood stasis and dredging menstruation. Used for constipation due to excess heat, abdominal pain due to stagnation, diarrhea, and damp-heat jaundice.
Classic: Blood stasis, blood stasis, cold and fever, accumulation of abdominal pain, staying for food, cleaning the stomach, promoting innovation, dredging the water valley ('Shui Gu' works' Shui Gu Road'), regulating Chinese food, and calming the five internal organs.
Bielu: flatting stomach, lowering qi, removing phlegm, intestinal heat, abdominal distension, female cold blood bloating, small abdominal pain, and retention of old blood.
"Theory of Medicinal Properties": controlling cold and heat, promoting digestion, refining the five internal organs, dredging women's menstruation, promoting edema, breaking phlegm, accumulation of cold and heat, staying at home, benefiting the large intestine, sticking heat and toxic swelling, and controlling children's cold and hot diseases, annoying heat, purulent and bleeding.
"Rihuazi Materia Medica": it can promote all qi, regulate blood vessels, benefit joints, relieve plastic stagnation and moisture, make limbs cold and hot, warm phlegm, facilitate urination and defecation, and apply-cut sores, furuncles and carbuncles.
Compendium: Indications are white diarrhea, acute abdominal pain, watery urine, excessive heat, delirium, jaundice and various fire sores.
Attack accumulation and guide stagnation: the taste is bitter, the qi is cold, the nature is heavy and falling, and the strength is strong and good, and it goes straight to the lower coke, which is longer than returning. Entering Yangming can cleanse the stagnation of excess heat in gastrointestinal tract. All typhoid fever, febrile diseases and heat accumulation in the middle.
Cooling blood and detoxicating: The bitter taste and the cold of qi both enter the qi and sympathize with it, which has the effect of purging heat and cooling blood. Therefore, "Medical Enthusiasm in the West" says: rhubarb enters the blood, which is downward in nature and good at clearing up the heat on the upper side, so it hurts the eyes and is used as an important medicine. It is also good at resolving the heat toxin of sores and ulcers, so as to treat the poison, especially the medicine with special effects. Its performance can reduce stomach heat and induce stomach qi to descend, so it is good at stopping emesis. "
Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis: Easy-to-read Materia Medica says: "Rhubarb, bitter and cold, enters Taiyin spleen and Jue Yin liver meridian. Purge heat and remove blood stasis, and stop the blockage. Pass through the meridians and break the crux. " The function is fierce, bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new, so that the blood stasis is removed and new blood is born.
Efficacy of rhubarb for external use: External use is also a good medicine. If ground, it can treat skin diseases such as yellow sores and eczema; Stir-fry with old lime until it is pink, grind it fine and spread it on the wound to stop bleeding. It is effective to treat scalding fire injury by mixing Sanguisorba officinalis powder with oil and external application.
There is a "Jiuwu Dahuang Thin Sticker" with rhubarb as the main medicine in Tang Wang Dao's Secret of Outer Taiwan, which is specially used for external treatment of carbuncle and back. Hong Mai's "Yi Jian Zhi Jia Zhi" in the Southern Song Dynasty also contains: "Pouring rhubarb, mixing it with beautiful vinegar, and applying it to the wound will not only heal the pain, but also eliminate the scar." It shows that rhubarb can not only relieve pain and swelling, but also leave no scar in the treatment of furuncle and furuncle.
Rhubarb has many functions, all of which can help us to treat these diseases. These diseases are common diseases in life, so we need to know in detail. What are the medicinal values of rhubarb?
Medicinal value of rhubarb
Stagnant constipation
This product has a strong purgative effect, can cleanse the stomach, promote the old and bring forth the new, and is an important medicine for treating constipation. Because it is bitter and cold, it is good at releasing heat, so constipation due to excess heat is especially suitable. It is often combined with Natrii Sulfas, Magnolia Officinalis and Fructus Aurantii Immaturus to enhance the power of purgation and accumulation. It is an urgent purgative and is used to treat excess syndrome of Yangming fu-organs, such as Dachengqi Decoction (Treatise on Febrile Diseases). If the dosage of rhubarb is light, and it is used together with intestine-moistening drugs such as hemp seed, almond and honey, the diarrhea force will be eased, such as Maziren Pill (Treatise on Febrile Diseases).
If the interior is full of heat and the qi is deficient, it should be combined with tonics to attack and tonify both the symptoms and the root causes. Such as heat stagnation and deficiency of qi and blood, with ginseng, angelica and other drugs, such as Huang Longtang (six books on typhoid fever); For patients with heat-induced fluid stagnation, Ophiopogon japonicus, Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Scrophulariae, etc. can be used as Zengye Chengqi Decoction (Treatise on Warm Diseases); If spleen yang is insufficient and constipation is caused by cold accumulation, it should be combined with aconite root and dried ginger, such as Wenpi Decoction (Qianjinfang).
Blood-heat vomiting, red eyes and swollen throat. This product is bitter and purgative, which can release the fire of upper inflammation, and has the functions of clearing away heat and purging fire, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is often combined with Huanglian and Scutellaria to treat hematemesis, epistaxis and hemoptysis caused by blood heat, such as Xiexin Decoction (Synopsis of Golden Chamber).
In modern clinic, rhubarb powder alone is effective in treating upper gastrointestinal bleeding. If it is used together with herbs such as Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi and Gardenia, it can also treat red eyes, sore throat and swollen gums caused by fire pathogen, such as Liangge San (Hejiju Fang).
Heat toxic ulcer, burn and scald. This product can be used both orally and externally. Oral administration can clear heat and detoxify, and by virtue of its purgative effect, heat toxin can be discharged. For heat-toxic carbuncle and furuncle, it is often used with honeysuckle, dandelion and forsythia. For abdominal pain due to intestinal carbuncle, it can be used with Cortex Moutan, Semen Persicae and Natrii Sulfas, such as Dahuang Peony Decoction (Synopsis of Golden Chamber).
For external use, this product can purge fire, detoxify, cool blood and reduce swelling, and treat heat-toxic carbuncle, swelling and furuncle. If it is used to treat breast furuncle, it can be ground with powder grass and boiled with wine into a paste (A Good Prescription for Women); For the treatment of aphtha erosion, it is often rubbed with dried alum as the end of the affected area (Sheng Hui Fang). To treat burns and scalds, powder can be used alone, or mixed with Sanguisorba powder, and sesame oil can be used to apply to the affected area.
Blood stasis syndrome. This product has a good effect of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and dredging channels, which can not only remove blood stasis, but also clear blood stasis and heat, and is a commonly used drug for treating blood stasis syndrome. For women with postpartum abdominal pain and lochia, it is often used with peach kernel and Eupolyphaga Seu Steleophaga, as follows: Blood Stasis Decoction (Synopsis of Golden Chamber); For women with blood stasis amenorrhea, it can be combined with Taohe and Guizhi, such as Taohe Chengqi Decoction (Treatise on Febrile Diseases); For traumatic injury, blood stasis and swelling and pain, it is often used with Danggui, Honghua and Pangolin, such as Fuyuan Huoxue Decoction (Medical Invention).
Damp-heat dysentery, jaundice, stranguria. This product has the functions of catharsis and catharsis, so it can be used to treat damp-heat accumulation. For the treatment of dysentery with damp-heat accumulation in intestinal tract, rhubarb alone can be effective (Su Wen Pathogenesis Qi Yi Bao Shou Ji), or it is used equally with Coptidis Rhizoma, Scutellariae Radix and Radix Paeoniae Alba; For damp-heat jaundice, it is often combined with Herba Artemisiae Scopariae and Fructus Gardeniae, such as Herba Artemisiae Scopariae Decoction (Treatise on Febrile Diseases); For damp-heat stranguria, Akebia stem, Semen Plantaginis, Gardenia, etc. are often combined, such as Bazhengsan (Hejijufang).
In addition, rhubarb can "break phlegm", dredge viscera, and reduce dampness and turbidity. It is used for patients with old phlegm obstruction, dyspnea and constipation, such as Hushi Guntan Pill (The Main Theory of Health Care).
Conclusion: We all know the medicinal value of rhubarb, and some common symptoms can be treated with rhubarb. We should all know the efficacy and taboos of rhubarb introduced above. Especially the taboo, we need to use it more rationally. I hope the above knowledge can help us.