Once the medicine is applied, it not only has a strong purgative effect, but also has the effect of clearing away heat and purging fire. Mainly suitable for constipation, dry stool and stagnation of excess heat.
There are mainly the following four drugs:
1. Rhubarb tastes bitter and cold. Spleen, stomach, large intestine, liver and pericardium.
Efficacy: diarrhea and stagnation, clearing heat and purging fire, cooling blood and detoxifying, removing blood stasis and dredging menstruation.
Indications: (1) Rhubarb is good at clearing heat from bitter cold and has a strong purgative effect, which is especially suitable for treating constipation due to excess heat. It is often used with mirabilite, Magnolia Officinalis and Fructus Aurantii Immaturus to treat the excess of Yangming fu-organs. For example, Dachengqi Decoction is used in Treatise on Febrile Diseases.
(2) Vomiting due to blood heat, red eyes and swollen throat. This product can reduce the fire of upper inflammation, and has the effects of clearing away heat and purging fire, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is often used with Coptidis Rhizoma and Scutellariae Radix 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.
(3) Heat toxic ulcers, burns and scalds. For heat-toxic carbuncle, it is often combined with honeysuckle, dandelion and forsythia. External use can purge fire and detoxify, cool blood and reduce swelling.
(4) Blood stasis syndrome
(5) Damp-heat dysentery, jaundice and stranguria
2. The nature of mirabilite: salty, bitter and cold. Return to stomach, large intestine meridian.
Efficacy: diarrhea, moistening dryness, softening hardness, clearing away heat and reducing swelling.
Indications: constipation; Sore throat, aphtha, red eyes, sore carbuncle.
The medicinal properties of senna leaves are sweet, bitter and cold. Enter the large intestine meridian. Efficacy: stopping diarrhea and relaxing bowels.
Indications: heat constipation; Ascites swelling
4. Aloe properties: bitter, cold. Liver, stomach and large intestine meridians.
Efficacy: laxative, liver-clearing and insecticidal.
Indications: heat constipation; Irritability, convulsion and epilepsy; Infants are malnourished.
Errun drugs: Most of these drugs are seeds and nuts of plants, which are rich in oil and have a sweet and moist taste. When they enter the spleen and large intestine, they can lubricate the large intestine, promote defecation and avoid serious diarrhea. It is suitable for constipation caused by intestinal dryness, fluid deficiency, postpartum blood deficiency, body fluid injury caused by fever and blood loss.
There are three main types:
1. Hemp seed properties: sweet, flat. Spleen and stomach meridians and large intestine meridians. Efficacy: Runchang laxative.
Indications: intestinal dryness and constipation, suitable for the elderly, pregnant women and those who are weak and lack of body fluid. Clinically, it is often used with laxatives such as Yu Liren, Fructus Trichosanthis, Perilla frutescens and Almond, such as Ma Ziren Pill from Treatise on Febrile Diseases.
2. The medicinal properties of Yu Liren: pungent, bitter, sweet and flat. Spleen, large intestine and small intestine meridians.
Efficacy: Runchang laxative, diuretic and detumescence.
Indications: intestinal dryness and constipation; Edema, beriberi edema.
3. Medicinal properties of pine nuts: sweet. Enter lung, liver and large intestine meridian.
Efficacy: Runchang laxative, Runfei cough.
Indications: intestinal dryness and constipation; Lung dryness and cough.
Most of these drugs are bitter, cold and toxic, and they are very strong. After taking it, it can cause severe diarrhea, and some of it can also induce diuresis, so that the water and drinks retained in the body can be discharged through defecation to eliminate swelling. It is suitable for symptoms of systemic edema, abdominal distension and abstinence. There are mainly the following six types:
1. kansui medicinal properties: bitter cold; Toxic. Enter lung, kidney and large intestine meridian.
Efficacy: Purging water to drink, reducing swelling and resolving stagnation.
Indications: edema, abdominal distension, and stopping drinking in chest and hypochondrium; Wind phlegm epilepsy; Swelling toxin of sore and carbuncle
2. Medicinal properties of Euphorbia Euphorbia: pungent, bitter and warm; Toxic. Enter lung, spleen and kidney meridians.
Efficacy: Purging water and draining water, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, killing insects and treating sores.
The main treatment methods: stop drinking, edema and abdominal distension in the chest and hypochondrium; Cough, excessive phlegm and asthma; Headache, baldness, stubbornness and carbuncle.
3. The effect of Phytolacca acinosa: diarrhea, swelling and stagnation. Main treatment: edema and abdominal distension; Sore, carbuncle, swelling and toxin.
4. The efficacy of morning glory: diarrhea drives away water, and stagnation kills insects.
Treatment: edema and swelling; Excessive phlegm and cough; Worm abdominal pain
5. croton effect: severe cold accumulation, diuresis to reduce swelling, phlegm and sore throat, external use to eliminate sores.
Indications: cold accumulation constipation; Abdominal distension of ascites; Phlegm blocking the throat; The carbuncle is swollen and pus-like, and the scabies are malignant.
6. Efficacy of Qianjin Zi: promoting diuresis to reduce swelling, breaking blood and eliminating symptoms.
Main treatment: edema and abdominal distension; Blood stasis blocking collaterals and amenorrhea
The above is a brief introduction to three kinds of laxatives.