What is Trichosanthes?
Trichosanthes root is also known as Trichosanthes root, wilting root, ruixue, sweet potato powder, pollen and excrement melon root. The sexual taste is cold, sweet, bitter and sour. Enter the lung and stomach meridians. Efficacy is mainly used to promote fluid production to quench thirst, reduce fire and moisten dryness, expel pus and reduce swelling. Indications: fever, thirst, thirst, jaundice, lung dryness, hemoptysis, carbuncle, hemorrhoids and fistula. Suitable for people with cough, carbuncle swelling and thirst. Avoid using it for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, and those with loose stools should avoid taking it. Compatibility notes: Ophiopogon japonicus, Rhizoma Phragmitis, Rhizoma Imperatae, etc. are used to treat thirst caused by heat accumulation, dryness and fluid injury.
The effect of trichosanthin is to clear away heat and promote fluid production.
It can be used for treating thirst caused by fever, and can also be used for treating thirst caused by excessive lung and stomach heat. Often used with Radix Rehmanniae, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae and Rhizoma Phragmitis.
Clearing lung and resolving phlegm.
The main symptoms of treating lung heat and dry cough are cough, scanty phlegm, dry throat, little or thick fur. This product can not only remove phlegm and turbidity, but also moisten the lung and relieve cough, especially for dry phlegm which is accumulated in the lung.
Detoxification and swelling reduction.
It is usually combined with honeysuckle and red peony to treat sores with excessive dryness and toxin.
Termination of pregnancy.
Can make pregnant women miscarry.
Other functions.
This product is sweet, cold and moist, and is good at clearing the heat of lung and stomach, so as to promote fluid production and moisten dryness. All syndromes of lung and stomach fluid hurting internal heat are commonly used. In addition, it can reduce swelling and expel pus to treat sores and carbuncle.
Taboo of Trichosanthes
① Notes on Materia Medica Classics: "Lycium barbarum is used for it. Evil dried ginger. Achyranthes bidentata, dry paint. Anti-aconite. "
(2) Shushu of Materia Medica: "Do not take it if the spleen and stomach are deficient in cold."
(3) "Materia Medica": "After sweating, those who are thirsty due to the death of fluid should not make a mistake; "Those who are thirsty because of yin deficiency and fire, and the body fluid can't be carried on, can't be generalized."
④ "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "Anyone who drinks phlegm with a thin spoon is forbidden to use it."
⑤ "Deserved Materia Medica": "Deficiency of stomach and dampness of phlegm, thirst due to yang deficiency, and diseases in the exterior are prohibited."
Commonly used prescriptions
① Zizao Drink (Shen Shi Zunsheng Book): Trichosanthis Radix, Asparagus, Ophiopogon japonicus, Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Paeoniae Alba, and Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae to treat lung dryness, cough and thirst;
(2) Yuye Decoction ("A Record of Medical Enthusiasm in the West": raw yam, Anemarrhena rhizome, kudzu root, Schisandra chinensis, yam, astragalus root and endothelium corneum Gigeriae Galli are used to treat thirst;
③ Qingshu Decoction (Surgical Whole Collection): Radix Trichosanthis, Fructus Forsythiae, Flos Lonicerae, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Folium Bambusae, Alismatis Rhizoma, Talcum, Semen Plantaginis, and Glycyrrhrizae Radix, for treating pemphigus and miliaria.
Trichosanthes root is also used in the surgical prescription Xianfang Huoxue Yin and external medicine Jinhuang ointment to treat sores and boils.