Sheng Di Huang

Also known as: raw ground, dried Di Huang

Taste: sweet, bitter, cold; to the heart, liver, kidney meridian.

To nourish Yin and cool the blood of the key meridian

Di Huang has the effect of clearing heat and cooling the blood, nourishing Yin and generating fluids. Ancient cloud: "treatment of blood disease no medicine can win the ground yellow." There is a story in the Song Dynasty: a person epistaxis (nosebleed) several buckets, constantly outflow, blowing into the nose of the medicine are washed out, there will be life-threatening, the doctor immediately sent to look for raw rhubarb, so that he ate three or four pounds of raw rhubarb, and raw rhubarb dregs stuffed with the nose, the blood gradually stops.

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Sheng dihuang is mainly produced in Henan, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Zhejiang, Shanxi and other places, especially in Henan Huaiqing produced the most famous. Genusiaceae perennial herb, dihuang root has medicinal value, generally fall or early winter digging, remove reeds, roots and sediment, fresh, that is, fresh dihuang; or with a small fire dihuang slowly baked to about eight dry, or sun-dried, that is, raw dihuang. Modern research has found that raw dihuang mainly contains mannitol, catalpol, digitonin, alkaloids and other substances.

Effects and Indications

Effects Fresh Dihuang clears heat and promotes the production of fluids, cools the blood, and stops bleeding; Raw Dihuang clears heat and cools the blood, nourishes yin and promotes the production of fluids.

These ingredients are used in the following ways: 1. Fresh Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata is strong in clearing heat and cooling blood, and is used in the treatment of fever, such as purple-red tongue, rash, epistaxis, epistaxis, sore throat, etc. 2. Raw Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata is strong in nourishing yin and clearing heat, and is used in the treatment of heat disease, such as red tongue and dry mouth, thirst and excessive drinking, yin deficiency with internal heat, and bone vaporization and heat, etc. 3. It is used in the treatment of blood-heat-induced eczema and urticaria.

Identification of purchase

Raw dihuang and ripe dihuang belong to the same thing, but the efficacy of the two are different. Raw dihuang without concoction processing, taste sweet and bitter, cold, nourishing greasy small, the main role is to clear heat and cool the blood, yin and Jin, mostly used for blood heat bleeding or strong heat, dry mouth and tongue, etc., so raw dihuang nourishing yin and cool the blood of the drug; cooked dihuang after processing, sweet and warm, can nourish the blood and nourish the yin, where all the essence of the blood and yin deficiency of cold or hot light can be used for blood tonic medicine. Therefore, the purchase must be recognized, do not confuse the two.

Precautions

Spleen deficiency and diarrhea, gastric cold with little food, phlegm in the chest and diaphragm should be taken with caution.