What are the commonly used foods for clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and diuresis?
1, Scrophularia figwort is the root of Scrophularia figwort and Scrophularia figwort, which contains Scrophularia glycoside and iridoid glycoside; It also contains volatile oil, alkaloids, etc. Pharmacological experiments show that the water extract, alcohol extract and water decoction of Scrophularia have antihypertensive effects; Scrophularia also has the functions of dilating blood vessels and strengthening the heart; Many invasive factors of Scrophularia plants have the effects of relieving exterior syndrome and anticonvulsant. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and has the functions of nourishing yin, reducing fire, cooling blood and detoxifying. It is suitable for fever, polydipsia, macula, bone fatigue, insomnia at night, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, body fluid injury, constipation, sore throat and other symptoms. Dosage: 6-12g; However, people with thin stools and excessive phlegm should not use it. 2. Semen Cassiae is the seed of cassia obtusifolia or cassia obtusifolia, which contains anthracene ester, anthraquinone glycoside, cassia obtusifolia and vitamin A, etc. Pharmacological experiments have proved that cassia seed has the effect of lowering blood pressure and serum cholesterol. It has the function of resisting various pathogenic bacteria and soft stool diarrhea. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is slightly cold, sweet and bitter, and has the functions of clearing liver-fire, improving eyesight, promoting diuresis and relaxing bowels. It is suitable for red eyes, astringent pain, shame and tears caused by liver fire or wind-heat in liver meridian. In addition, it is also effective for hypertension, hepatitis, ascites due to cirrhosis and habitual constipation. Dosage: 3-9g, mashed and decocted. 3. Cortex Lycii is the root bark of Lycium barbarum, a plant of Lycium genus in Solanaceae, which contains cinnamic acid, various phenols, betaine and linoleic acid. Cortex Lycii has obvious antipyretic effect. Its decoction can lower blood sugar, lower serum cholesterol and resist fatty liver. Its decoction can significantly lower blood pressure of animals. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature, sweet and light in taste, and has the functions of cooling blood, relieving exterior syndrome and purging lung heat. It is suitable for night sweats, hot flashes, cough and asthma due to lung heat, vomiting blood, epistaxis, carbuncle, swollen sores, tuberculosis and blood-heat hypertension. Dosage: generally 3-9g. 4. Reed is the underground stem of Gramineae reed, which contains Coix lachryma-jobi and asparagine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature and sweet in taste, and has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, relieving restlessness and vomiting, promoting diuresis and infiltrating dampness. It is suitable for treating fever and fluid injury, relieving restlessness and thirst, vomiting due to stomach heat, choking diaphragm, nausea, cough due to lung heat and lung abscess. Dosage: 9-30g for dry people; Fresh15-40g. 5. Forsythia suspensa is the fruit of Oleaceae plant Forsythia suspensa, which contains volatile oil, forsythol, flavonoid glycosides, alkaloids and so on. Pharmacological experiments show that forsythia suspensa has broad-spectrum antibacterial effect, and forsythol may be its main antibacterial component. Forsythia suspense also has anti-inflammatory, antiemetic, diuretic and cardiotonic effects; Flavonoids glycosides can enhance the density of capillaries, so they can stop bleeding caused by capillary rupture and subcutaneous hemorrhage. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is slightly cold in nature and bitter in taste, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispersing stagnation and reducing swelling. It is suitable for warm, erysipelas, macula, carbuncle and allergic purpura. Dosage: generally 6-9g. 6. Peony bark Peony bark is the root bark of Ranunculaceae peony, which contains paeonol, paeonol glycoside, volatile oil and phytosterol. Pharmacological experiments show that Cortex Moutan has the effect of lowering blood pressure. Has analgesic, sedative, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects; It has a strong inhibitory effect on a variety of pathogenic bacteria. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cool in nature, bitter and pungent in taste, and has the functions of clearing away heat and cooling blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It is suitable for heat, blood stasis, macula, shock and pain, hematemesis, carbuncle and traumatic injury. Dosage: 5-9g, but it is forbidden for diarrhea due to deficiency of spleen and stomach. 7. Anemarrhena asphodeloides is the rhizome of Anemarrhena asphodeloides in Liliaceae, which contains many saponins and saponins, in addition to two flavonoids and mangiferin. Experiments show that Anemarrhena asphodeloides has obvious antipyretic effect and obvious curative effect on epidemic hemorrhagic fever, Japanese encephalitis and tuberculosis hot flashes. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and has the functions of clearing away heat and purging fire, nourishing yin and moistening dryness. It is suitable for cough due to lung heat or cough due to yin deficiency, vexing heat to quench thirst, bone steaming fatigue, dysuria, and dry stool. Dosage: generally 6-9g, but it is forbidden for patients with kidney-yang deficiency, weak pulse in both feet and loose stool. 8. Isatis indigotica is the root of Isatis indigotica and Isatis indigotica in Cruciferae, which contains isatin B and B- sitosterol. Radix Isatidis has obvious antiviral effect. It can inhibit a variety of pathogenic bacteria, including leptospira. Clinically, oral or intramuscular injection of Banlangen decoction has obvious curative effect on Japanese encephalitis. It has certain curative effect on acute and chronic hepatitis, can alleviate or subside symptoms, and promote the improvement of liver function; Treating viral dermatoses such as herpes simplex, herpes zoster, pityriasis rosea and verruca plana with Radix Isatidis has different effects. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature and bitter in taste, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and relieving sore throat. It is suitable for influenza encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis, pneumonia, erysipelas, heat toxic spots, fire eyes and herpes. Dosage: 5-9g; But it is not suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. 9. Honeysuckle Honeysuckle is the bud of Lonicera japonica Thunb, which contains chlorogenic acid, inositol and flavonoids. Pharmacological experiments show that honeysuckle has anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects, and has inhibitory effects on influenza virus, various pathogenic bacteria and dermatophytes, which reflects the heat-clearing and detoxification effect of honeysuckle. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature, sweet in taste, and has the function of clearing away heat and toxic materials. It is suitable for diseases with excessive heat toxin, such as fever due to epidemic febrile disease, bloody dysentery due to heat toxin, sores and furuncles. Dosage: generally 6-12g; However, it is not suitable for those with cold sores, weak discharge, clear discharge and no heat toxicity. 10, Gardenia Gardenia is the fruit of Gardenia Gardenia, a Rubiaceae plant, which contains a variety of picroside, mannitol, ursolic acid and so on. Gardenia Gardenia is beneficial to gallbladder function or increase bile secretion; At the same time, Gardenia has antipyretic, sedative, analgesic and anticonvulsant effects; It also has antibacterial effect, and has inhibitory effect on various pathogenic bacteria and various skin pathogenic fungi. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature and bitter in taste, and has the functions of purging fire and relieving annoyance, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood and detoxifying, and is suitable for fever, insomnia, jaundice, red eyes, epistaxis, toxic heat ulcer and other symptoms. Dosage: 3-9g. 1 1. Taraxacum mongolicum is the whole grass of the root of Taraxacum mongolicum in Compositae, which contains dandelion sterol, choline, inulin and fruit acid. Its decoction has the function of resisting pathogenic microorganisms; It also has the functions of protecting liver, benefiting gallbladder and improving human immune function. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling and resolving hard mass. It is suitable for acute mastitis, lymphadenitis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, gastritis, hepatitis, cholecystitis and urinary tract infection. Dosage: 9- 15g, mashed and externally applied, which can be used for breast carbuncle, rash, carbuncle, etc.