Traditional Chinese medicine for treating gout
Smilacis Glabrae is the dried tuber of Smilacis Glabrae of Liliaceae. Distributed in the Yangtze River basin and southern provinces. Harvesting in summer and autumn, removing residual stems and fibrous roots, washing and drying in the sun; Or sliced when fresh, dried and eaten raw.
The medicine is sweet, light and flat. Entering the liver and stomach meridians.
Efficacy: detoxification, dehumidification, and joint facilitation.
App application
1. Excessive leucorrhea, eczema and itching
The taste is sweet and light, and it has the functions of expelling toxin and diuresis. Therefore, it can be used to treat heat stranguria, leukorrhagia, eczema and wet sore caused by damp heat. It is often used with Akebia Akebia, Polygonum Cuspidatum, Dandelion and Plantago Seed to treat heat stranguria. The herbs in southern Yunnan are only decocted with this product to treat vaginal itching and excessive leucorrhea. Such as Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Kochiae Fructus, Cortex Dictamni Radicis, Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, etc. , can also be used for hot and humid skin itching.
2. Myrica rubra toxic sore, limb contracture
This product is sweet and light in taste, detoxifying and promoting diuresis, dredging joints and relieving mercury poisoning, so it is especially effective for syphilis or patients with limb contracture and muscle pain caused by taking mercury poisoning for syphilis, and it is an important drug for treating syphilis.
3. carbuncle swelling and sore poison
This product has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving swelling and resolving hard mass.
Usage and dosage: decocted, 15 ~ 60g. Appropriate amount for external use.
Pay attention to the use of caution in patients with liver and kidney yin deficiency. Avoid drinking tea when taking medicine.
Ancient book abstracts
1. Compendium of Materia Medica "Strengthen spleen and stomach, strengthen bones and muscles, remove rheumatism, benefit joints and stop diarrhea. Treat contracture bone pain, malignant ulcer and carbuncle. Dissolve mercury powder and cinnabar poison. "
2. "Materia Medica Justice" "Smilax glabra, diuretic and heat-clearing, can be networked and search for the poison of damp heat. Those who solve the poison of mercury and glaze powder, they take ascension to collect poison, which is the service of subtle and downward guidance. Therefore, they specialize in treating Yangmeisheng's toxic sores, deep collaterals, joint pain, and even decay, toxic fire rushing up, sore throat, and all kinds of evil diseases. "
Modern research shows that this product contains astilbin, isoastragaloside IV, carotene, 3,5,4. Saponins such as trihydroxystilbene, epicatechin, succinic acid, β-sitosterol, tannins, flavonoids, resins, etc. And volatile oil, polysaccharide, starch, etc. The astilbin contained in this product has obvious diuretic and analgesic effects; It also has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. It is also found that this product can promote uric acid excretion.
An example of a gout diet.
Tuling japonica rice porridge
Raw materials: Smilax glabra 30g, japonica rice 50g.
Methods: Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae was first decocted into liquid medicine, and then glutinous rice was boiled into porridge, daily 1 dose, which can be taken frequently.
Has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis and dredging collaterals. Smilax glabra can increase the excretion of uric acid in blood.
Suitable for all patients with gout or hyperuricemia.
Ren Tao Zhou
The raw materials are peach kernel 15g and japonica rice 150g.
Method: First, mash the peach kernel into mud, add water to grind the juice, remove the residue, and then cook porridge with japonica rice, daily 1 dose.
Efficacy: promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, dredging collaterals and relieving pain.
It is suitable for gout due to blood stasis and phlegm stagnation.