Clearing heat refers to a variety of treatments to remove evil or deficiency heat. It is generally referred to as solid heat when it is caused by exogenous warmth. Evil in the qi division of the appropriate use of pungent and cool to clear heat; heat and toxicity blazing or entrapped in dampness is appropriate to use bitter and cold to clear heat; heat and injury to the fluid is appropriate to use sweet and cold to clear heat; heat in the camp blood is appropriate to cool the blood to clear heat method, and so on.

The term Chinese medicine.

Internal heat arising from a deficiency of yin is called deficiency heat, and nourishing yin to clear heat is appropriate. Nourishing yin has the effect of nourishing lung yin . Liver yin . Kidney yin and blood nourishment. There are many ways to nourish yin such as nourishing blood, nourishing fluids, etc., which should be applied according to the specific situation. In the stage of heat illness that injures the yin, the method of nourishing yin and clearing heat can also be combined. In addition, fever caused by qi deficiency should be treated with sweet and warm qi tonic medicines, which are not included in the scope of heat-clearing.

Related remedies

Any drug that clears internal heat is called a heat-clearing drug, and any formula composed of heat-clearing drugs is called a heat-clearing agent.

Heat-clearing medicines and formulas, which are cold in nature, have the effects of clearing heat and diarrhea, detoxifying and cooling the blood, etc. They are mainly used for various symptoms of internal heat presented by feverish illnesses with high fever, hot diarrhea, carbuncle, swelling and sores.

Heat evidence of heat in the gas, camp, blood, as well as false heat, solid heat and other evidence of the different, so the clear method can be divided into heat diarrhea, clear heat and cool the blood, clear heat and detoxification, clear heat and dry dampness of the medicine of the four; clearing the false heat, clearing the heat of the viscera method.

This type of prescription drugs more cold, easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, the spleen and stomach weak patients, it is appropriate to supplement the appropriate drugs to strengthen the stomach; heat disease easy to injure fluid, clearing heat and dry dampness medicine, and sex more dry, but also easy to injure fluid, the Yin deficiency of the patient, pay attention to supplement the yin medicine, not forgetting to support the right to get rid of the evil.

Weakness of the spleen and stomach, poor appetite, intestinal slippery easy to diarrhea should be used with caution.