The taste is cold, pungent and sweet. Spleen and stomach meridian. Pueraria lobata (raw, good at relieving muscle heat, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, and penetrating rash); Stewed pueraria lobata (used for stewing, longer than rising yang and stopping diarrhea).

Basic effects: relieving muscle heat, penetrating measles, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, strengthening yang and stopping diarrhea.

clinical application

1, used for patients with exogenous exterior syndrome and strong backache.

This taste is sweet and pungent, belonging to the spleen and stomach meridian, so it has the function of relieving muscle and reducing fever. It can be used for both exterior syndrome fever and neck pain and contracture. Use therapy:

① Wind-cold exterior syndrome, with severe fever due to pathogenic stagnation, mild aversion to cold, headache and no sweat, which is often combined with Bupleurum and Scutellaria, such as Chaige Jijie Decoction (Six Books on Febrile Diseases);

② For patients with exogenous wind-cold, no sweat and severe pain in the neck, they are often combined with Mahuang and Guizhi, such as Gegen Decoction from Treatise on Febrile Diseases;

③ Strong exogenous wind and sweat, aversion to wind and neck pain are often combined with Guizhi and Paeonia lactiflora, such as Guizhi plus Gegen Decoction (Treatise on Febrile Diseases). . 14

2, used for measles.

This product is pungent and cool powder, which can disperse exterior evils and penetrate rash. It is often combined with Cimicifuga rhizome, Radix Paeoniae Alba and Radix Glycyrrhizae to treat the initial onset or poor penetration of measles, namely Cimicifuga Gegen Decoction (Yan's Xiaoer Formula).

3. Used for fever and thirst, thirst due to yin deficiency.

The taste is sweet and cool, and it can strengthen yang, promote fluid production and quench thirst. Treatment: ① fever and thirst, often accompanied by reed rhizome, Trichosanthes root and so on. @ Quench thirst, often with yam, astragalus, etc. , such as Yu Ye decoction ("medicine fever").

4, used for damp-heat diarrhea and spleen deficiency diarrhea.

This product can promote spleen and stomach, clear yang and stop diarrhea. Treatment: ① Damp-heat diarrhea, often combined with Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, Coptidis Rhizoma and Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch, namely Gegen Qin Huang Coptidis Rhizoma Decoction (Treatise on Febrile Diseases); For diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, it is often combined with Ginseng and Atractylodes macrocephala, such as Qiwei Baizhu Powder.

5. Used for osteoarthralgia. "Shennong Materia Medica" contains Pueraria lobata's "main arthralgia". Osteoarthralgia is equivalent to hyperosteogeny in modern medicine. According to Zhu Liangchun's medication experience, Pueraria lobata: "tonify the kidney and cure the root cause", 30~45g of Pueraria lobata is needed to treat cervical hyperplasia, and it is considered that Pueraria lobata can "treat bone arthralgia, relieve spasm and dredge the pulse".

6. Used for toothache due to excess heat

Pueraria lobata is light in taste and scattered in the spleen and stomach meridians. Pueraria lobata can disperse depressed fire, just as Pueraria lobata can disperse depressed fire in Compendium of Materia Medica, which clearly points out that Pueraria lobata can treat stomach fire stagnation, toothache and halitosis. Therefore, pueraria lobata can be used to dispel pathogenic factors and penetrate rash, and can also be used for toothache caused by wind-fire and stomach-fire.

Modern clinical application of puerarin injection in treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: It can treat diabetes, cervical spondylosis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diarrhea and other diseases when combined with other drugs.

Herbal abstract:

Pueraria lobata is light in nature, dispersing stagnation, relaxing muscles and tendons, rising yang and dispersing fire.

Xin, Gan, Ping, Zhang Yang, upward. Entering Yangming meridian can lift stomach qi, promote fluid production and quench thirst. The wind and medicine are dry, and Pueraria lobata can only quench thirst, so as to nourish stomach qi and enter the lungs to produce fluid. Simultaneously enter the spleen meridian, open the knees and sweat, relax muscles and clear heat.

Spleen governs muscles. It is a holy medicine for treating spleen and stomach weakness and diarrhea. "Jing" says: when the qi is clear, it will cause diarrhea. Pueraria lobata can promote yang qi, clear qi and clear qi. Treating cold apoplexy, Yangming headache and Zhang daily headache is Yangming apoplexy, and Gegen chopped green onion soup can be used. If the sun gets sick for the first time and has a headache before entering Yangming, it is not allowed to take decoction to promote it, which will lead to pathogenic factors entering Yangming.

Zhongjing treats the diseases of the sun and Yangming, and Guizhi Decoction is added with Radix Puerariae and Herba Ephedrae. There is also Pueraria Qin Huang Huanglian Ji Jie Decoction, which is used to break the path of the sun entering Yangming, not a sun medicine.

Blood dysentery warms malaria, Danxi said: Anyone who treats malaria without sweat must have sweat, mainly to eliminate evil and mainly to supplement; If you have sweat, you shouldn't have sweat. You should keep fit. Ginseng Radix, Zanthoxylum nitidum and Atractylodis Rhizoma are added to stop the sweating of yang malaria, and Qin, Radix Puerariae and Atractylodis Rhizoma are added to stop the sweating of yang malaria.

Intestinal acne rash. You will get acne. Danxi said: if the macula has seen red spots, it is not appropriate to take Shengge decoction more, so as to avoid the exterior deficiency aggravating the macula and rotting. It can also activate yin qi, disperse depressed fire and relieve alcoholism, especially pueraria lobata. Promoting two will kill all kinds of drugs. It's too much to use stomach-protecting qi to promote dispersion.

Pueraria lobata juice is cold, relieving fever and vomiting blood.

Most middle-aged and elderly people like to soak Pueraria lobata in water or take Pueraria lobata powder to prevent and regulate cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and blood sugar. However, people with bad stomach must pay attention to the fact that this product is cold and may cause indigestion and stomach pain after taking it.

Tea Formula 1: Pueraria lobata 6- 10g, soaked in water.

Efficacy: hangover, mainly for headache, dizziness, polydipsia, vomiting, fullness of chest and diaphragm, etc.

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