Rutabaga is the underground stem of reed, a perennial herb in the family of Gramineae. It is sweet and cold in nature. Attributed to the lung, stomach meridian. It has the effect of clearing away heat and generating fluids, removing vexation and stopping vomiting.

The root of Cynomolgus is the rhizome of Cynomolgus, which is a perennial herb in the family of Gramineae. It is sweet and cold in nature. Attributed to the lung, stomach, bladder meridian. It has the effect of cooling blood to stop bleeding, clearing heat and diuretic, and clearing heat from lung and stomach.

Effective in clearing heat and inducing diuresis.

Pairing mechanism: Rehmannia glutinosa is sweet, cold, light, and belongs to the lung and stomach meridians. It is used to clear heat and promote the production of body fluid, light to disperse the heat of the lungs and stomach qi, to clear and promote lung heat to moisten and ease the cough, and to treat lung-heat and dry cough, wind-heat cough, and lung carbuncle with pus and phlegm, etc.; to clear and promote lung heat to promote the production of body fluid, to stop vomiting and to get rid of annoyance, and to treat heat diseases, thirst and vomiting, etc.; and to clear and promote lung heat to regulate the watercourses and facilitate urine, and to treat short and red urine, and hot showers, astringent and painful.

Leucaena leucocephala root is sweet, cold, light, and belongs to the lung, stomach and bladder meridians. It is sweet to produce fluids, cold to cool the blood, light in texture and floating, which can clear the heat of the lungs and stomach and cool the blood, produce fluids, and can enter the bladder to promote water, and guide the heat downward, so it has the function of cooling the blood to stop bleeding, and clearing the heat to promote diuresis. It is suitable for all kinds of blood-heat hemorrhage, with blood in urine as the best. It is also used for feverish gonorrhea, jaundice, edema and urinary incontinence and fever, thirst, stomach heat and vomiting, lung heat and cough.

White lemongrass root clearing, rehmannia root translucent surface, the two drugs together, a clear and a translucent, for lung heat cough, clearing and translucent rashes and toxins is particularly suitable; second, the two drugs are sweet and cold, cool and moist products, are able to clear the lungs and stomach of the heat; third, the white lemongrass root sweet cold and clearing heat bias to go to the blood, can be cooled blood to produce fluids, and can be used in the bladder to promote drainage of the heat downstream, rehmannia root cold and produce fluids, the owner of the qi, often in the lungs, the stomach, qi part of the heat, the two drugs, a gas and a blood, blood and Qi, the two drugs, sweating and relieving the surface, the blood and the blood. The two medicines, one qi and one blood, qi and blood, double clearing, sweating and relieving epidemics, clearing heat and diuretic, and increasing the power to produce fluids and quench thirst.

Clinical application

1. Wind-heat cold. It is especially suitable for those who have wind-heat syndrome with thirst, and is often combined with honeysuckle, forsythia and mint.

2. In the course of fever, high fever and thirst, stomach heat and fluid injury, gas retching, etc., can be applied.

3. Edema, gonorrhea, blood in urine, with talc, quomai, mouton, etc..

Modern clinical commonly used in colds, upper respiratory tract infections, bronchopneumonia, bronchial asthma, lobar pneumonia, viral pneumonia, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, acute glomerulonephritis, urinary tract infections.

Modern research leucaena has antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory exudate, diuretic and analgesic effects; also has shorten the clotting time and bleeding time and the role of alcohol detoxification. Rehmannia glutinosa has sedative, analgesic, hypotensive, hypoglycemic, antioxidant and antipyretic effects.

Use and dosage Bai Mao Gen, fresh 20~60g, dried 10~15g; rehmannia root fresh 30g, dried 10~15g. water decoction.

Use Note: Not to be taken by people with cold spleen and stomach.

According to the formula of Bai Mao Gen and Reed Root, from the empirical formula in Shi Jin Mo's Medicine, Shi believed that it could be applied regardless of external fever, internal fever, and fever of unknown cause. According to Zhang Xichun, wherever the root is fresh, it can be replaced by fresh rehmannia, indicating that the two are similar in function and can be used as alternatives to each other.