Huanglian (黄黄连) is a medicine that clears away heat and dries up dampness and detoxifies the body.

What about Hu Huanglian? Is it similar?

Hu Huanglian is from Newly Revised Materia Medica, which is the root of the herb Hu Huanglian in the family of Xuanxian. Mainly produced in Yunnan, Tibet and other places. Autumn digging into medicine. It is used raw.

Hu Huanglian is bitter in flavor and cold in nature. It belongs to the kidney, heart, liver, stomach and large intestine meridians, and has the efficacy of reducing deficiency heat, removing chancre heat, clearing heat and drying dampness, and diarrhea and detoxification.

A comparison, than Huanglian more than a depression of deficiency heat, in addition to chancre heat role. These two effects were discussed in yesterday's Yin Chai Hu, which specializes in reducing deficiency heat and removing chancre heat. In terms of reducing deficiency heat or removing chancre heat, hu huanglian is not as good as yin chaihu, why?

Because Hu Huanglian is more cold, easy to damage the spleen and stomach, because Hu Huanglian is bitter cold and dry, easy to hurt the Yin.

Speaking of specific applications.

First of all, it is used in cases of Yin deficiency and internal heat.

Hu Huanglian is cold in nature, and can enter the kidney and liver meridians to clear heat. The main treatment of liver and kidney yin deficiency, false fire internal disturbance caused by the bones steam tide fever, and often with the whole armor, Zhimu and other Yin Yin antipyretic medicine used together.

For example, the bone-cleansing powder in the "Quasi-Terms of Evidence".

Secondly, it is used for pediatric chancre fever.

Hu Huanglian is similar to Yin Chaihu in that it can both clear deficiency heat and remove chancre heat, and can be used for children's chancre fever.

In particular, Hu Huanglian can clear damp-heat in the stomach and intestines, which is more suitable for those with noma fever and damp-heat.

As in the "Medical Zong Jinjian" in the fat child pill.

The rest are utilized similarly to Huang Huang Lian.

Hu Huanglian has the same heat-clearing and dampness-drying, fire-dissolving and toxin-dissolving effects as Huanglian.

Clinically, it can be used to treat damp-heat in the stomach and intestines, diarrhea, dysentery and abdominal pain.

Toxic-heat sores and swellings, hemorrhoids swelling and pain.

Liver-heat and redness of the eyes, heart-heat and irritability, as well as blood-heat paranoia.

For example, in the "Su Shen Liang Fang" of the three things, Hu Huang Lian and the plum meat, the soil under the stove and other parts to take, with treatment of dysentery and blood.

"Sun Tianren set of effective formula" Hu Huanglian grinding for the end, goose gall juice, painted, with the treatment of hemorrhoids pain and swelling , not ninja.

Pu Jifang uses Hu Huanglian and raw dihuang to grind into powder, and pig bile as pills to treat vomiting blood, epistaxis.

Modern research shows that:

Hu Huanglian contains hu huanglianoside, spruce glycoside and other cyclic allyl squint glycosides, triterpene glycosides and phenolic glycosides, and contains hu huanglianol, hu huanglian sterol, balsam pearic acid, cinnamic acid, ferulic acid and other components.

①It has anti-inflammatory, asthmatic, hepatoprotective, choleretic effects.

②The aqueous extract has different degrees of inhibitory effect on a variety of skin pathogenic fungi.

③ It has contracting effect on rat uterus and inhibitory effect on frog heart.