Summer is often used to relieve colds and sweating, but it has no effect on fever and headache. Elsholtzia has the function of dispelling summer heat and removing dampness, and is suitable for vomiting and diarrhea caused by cold and dampness blocking the spleen and stomach in summer. Can be used in combination with lentils, Coptidis Rhizoma and Magnolia Officinalis. It can be used alone or together with Atractylodes macrocephala for invigorating spleen and diuresis.
Elsholtzia can not only sweat, but also dispel summer heat and remove dampness. Therefore, it is a drug that is often drunk in summer due to colds, fever, sweating, vomiting and diarrhea. Although this product can dispel summer heat, Wen Xin San is mostly used for yin-heat syndrome. The predecessors once said:? Elsholtzia in summer and ephedra in winter. ? . Therefore, when you use it to dispel summer heat, you must have symptoms of being afraid of cold and sweating. For damp-heat, it can be combined with yellow. As for the symptoms such as sweating, fever and thirst caused by summer heat, this product should not be used.
Sex, taste and classics: spicy and flat. Enter the lung and stomach meridians.
Efficacy: sweating, moistening skin, eliminating dampness, replenishing water and reducing swelling. Mainly used for cold, edema and beriberi.
Elsholtzia is produced all over the country except Xinjiang and Qinghai. When the fruit of Elsholtzia Haizhou is ripe, chop the whole grass, dry it and cut it into sections for later use. Has the effects of sweating, eliminating dampness, inducing diuresis and reducing swelling. Suitable for common cold, cold and heat, headache and excessive sweating, chest distress and abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, edema, beriberi, etc.
1 sweating, relieve external symptoms.
Elsholtzia is widely distributed and can enter the lung meridian to sweat, relieve exterior syndrome and dispel cold. Can be used for treating diseases such as damp-heat common cold, common cold and fever, and severe head and body pain. It is called summer ephedra and month ephedra.
2 Harmony without difference
Elsholtzia has a fragrant smell and can enter the spleen and stomach to eliminate dampness and clear heat. It is mostly used for Xia Han patients who feel cold in summer and have cold spleen and stomach.
Three. Eliminating dampness and detumescence
Elsholtzia powder is warm and smooth. It can disperse the water on the muscle surface by sweating. At the same time, it has the function of dispersing lung. The lungs are the source of water. Eliminating dampness and swelling, activating lung qi, activating upper source and hydrophobic channel. It is often used to treat diseases such as edema and beriberi.
4 diuresis
Elsholtzia has the functions of sweating and antipyretic, stimulating digestive gland secretion and gastrointestinal peristalsis, stimulating renal blood vessels, causing renal tubular congestion and increasing filtration pressure, and has diuretic effect, which is suitable for patients with dysuria.
Analysis of the main functions of Elsholtzia: sweating, stopping diarrhea, diuresis and detumescence.
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① Treatment of disharmony between spleen and stomach, fullness of chest and diaphragm, wind-cold inside, cold pathogen outside, aversion to cold and high fever, body pain, weakness of limbs, cholera vomiting, spleen pain, stomach hangover, typhoid headache: two pairs of buttercup (earth), half of licorice (fried), white lentils (fried) and magnolia officinalis (peeled and fried ginger). The upper part is very good. Take two yuan each and boil the soup into salt. (Elsholtzia soup)
(2) Cure cholera, vomiting, limb pain, cold sweat and thirst: Elsholtzia, Polygonum cuspidatum. Two-flavor coarse sieve. Take two Bi Yuan and Yi Deng water each time, fry for seven minutes, and take it warm for three days. ("Sheng Ji Zong Lu" Elsholtzia Soup)
③ Treatment of cholera, abdominal pain and diarrhea: raw Elsholtzia 1 l (chopped), garlic 1 l (crushed), 6 liang of Magnolia officinalis (fried) and 2 liang of ginger 12. Cut four flavors, take a bucket of water, boil three liters, and take three servings, which can stop vomiting and diarrhea, and each serving must be warm. ("Emergency Prescription" Elsholtzia Decoction)
(4) For sudden floods, geomantic omen, edema, or water accumulation in sores and swelling all over the body: one catty of dried Elsholtzia, seven ounces of Atractylodes macrocephala. The above two flavors are mashed and sieved; Boil Elsholtzia strongly to get juice, and make pills as big as a quintuple. Take ten tablets each time, four or five times a day, which is good for urination. Flowers and leaves in summer are also good. Avoid herring, seaweed, shepherd's purse, peach, plum and sparrow meat. ("Monk Ji Shen Fang" Xiangxie Shuwan)
⑤ Treating tongue protrusion with blood like a drill: take one liter of Elsholtzia juice for three days. (Behind the elbow)
⑥ Summer injury (lying wet and windy in summer, or catching cold, headache and fever, muscle twitching, retching, chills in limbs, etc. ). Use half a catty of Elsholtzia, half a catty of Magnolia officinalis (fried with ginger juice) and half a catty of white lentils (slightly fried) to file and disperse. Five yuan each time, add two bowls of water and half a bowl of wine, fry into a bowl, and take it after the water cools. Even in the second suit, very effective. This recipe is called "Xiangxiang Drink". The lentils in the recipe can be replaced by Rhizoma Coptidis (fried with ginger juice).
⑦ Edema: 50 kg of Elsholtzia, filed into the pot, decocted in water for a long time, and then decocted the residue. When it is thick enough to be kneaded into pills, it is made into balls, the size of scorpions. Take five capsules each time, three times a day, and the dosage can be added a little every day to make the urine unobstructed. This recipe is called "Fried Elsholtzia". Another prescription: a catty of Elsholtzia leaves, a bucket of water, boiled, dregs removed, then boiled into paste, and 72 pieces of Atractylodes macrocephala were added to make balls, which were as big as five pieces. Take ten pills at a time and send rice soup. This prescription is called "Shenshi Qiu Shu Pill".
8 upset hypochondriac pain. Pound a liter or two of juice with Elsholtzia.
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How to eat Elsholtzia?
1, Elsholtzia porridge: Elsholtzia 10g, rice 10g, and proper amount of sugar. Wash Elsholtzia, put it in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, decoct with water to get juice, add rice to cook porridge, add white sugar when it is cooked, and cook it once or twice, with a dose of 1 ~ 2 per day. It can sweat and relieve exterior syndrome, dispel summer heat and remove dampness, promote diuresis and reduce swelling. It is suitable for symptoms such as summer dampness, edema and dysuria caused by exogenous wind and cold and internal injuries in summer.
2. Elsholtzia: Elsholtzia tender seedlings100g, lean pork 250g, and appropriate seasoning. Cleaning Elsholtzia, and cutting; Clean lean pork, shred, thicken, stir-fry in a hot oil pan, and add Elsholtzia, seasoning, etc. Stir-fry for a while, daily 1 dose. Can strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis. Suitable for chronic nephritis, renal edema, etc.
3. Elsholtzia drink: Elsholtzia 10g, white lentils and magnolia officinalis 5g each. Select three kinds of medicines, put them into a medicine pot, add appropriate amount of water, soak them for 10 minute, decoct them in water to get juice, and take them in several times, once a day 1 dose. It can relieve exterior syndrome, dispel cold and remove dampness, and is suitable for aversion to cold, fever, headache, anhidrosis, chest distress, limb weakness, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea caused by exogenous wind-cold and internal injury.
4. Newly added Elsholtzia drink: 6 grams of Elsholtzia, 9 grams of honeysuckle, 9 grams of fresh flat tofu, 6 grams of Magnolia officinalis and 6 grams of forsythia. Select all the medicines, put them into a medicine pot, add appropriate amount of water, soak them for 10 minute, then decoct them in water to get juice, and take them in batches, once a day 1 dose. It can dispel summer heat, relieve exterior syndrome, clear heat and dry dampness, and is suitable for those who have aversion to cold, fever, no sweat, upset red, thirsty, white fur and heavy pulse.
5, Huanglianxiang drink: 5 grams of Rhizoma Coptidis, 5 grams of Elsholtzia 10, 5 grams of white lentils and Magnolia officinalis. Select all the medicines, put them into a medicine pot, add appropriate amount of water, soak them for 10 minute, then decoct them in water to get juice, and take them in batches, once a day 1 dose. It can relieve exterior cold and clear away summer heat, and is suitable for summer heat, cold at night, cold at first, sweating afterwards, head swelling and pain, chest tightness and nausea, aching joints all over the body, thin and white tongue coating and rapid pulse.
6, lentil fragrant drink: 30 grams of white lentils, Elsholtzia 15 grams. Select all the medicines, put them into a medicine pot, add appropriate amount of water, soak them for 10 minute, then decoct them in water to get juice, and take them in batches, once a day 1 dose. It can eliminate dampness and relieve summer heat, and is suitable for heatstroke, fever, vomiting and diarrhea.
Taboos for taking Elsholtzia.
1. Elsholtzia has obvious sweating effect and is not suitable for people with qi deficiency and excessive sweating. Such as spontaneous sweating due to shortness of breath, night sweats due to yin deficiency, and taboos such as children, elderly patients and postpartum physical weakness and hyperhidrosis. For the syndrome of yin and summer heat, the fire is full of qi deficiency, the yin deficiency is full of heat, the vitality is damaged internally, or the heat and thirst, slight aversion to cold, shortness of breath, hyperhidrosis, and the superficial qi is not solid.
2. The pungent smell of Elsholtzia is highly divergent, and people with excessive sweating should not take it.
3. For the syndrome of yin-summer heat, those who have fire-induced qi deficiency, yin-deficiency heat, internal damage to vitality, or thirst for summer heat, slight aversion to cold, shortness of breath, excessive sweating, and unstable exterior qi should be avoided.
4. Elsholtzia can make glomerular blood vessels hyperemia, increase filtration pressure, diuresis, and be used with caution for those with renal insufficiency.