Mouth ulcers belong to the category of “mouth sores” and “mouth erosion” in Chinese medicine. Damp-heat type mouth ulcers generally refers to “gastrointestinal damp-heat caused by mouth ulcers”, can choose Yin Chen, gardenia and rhubarb and other traditional Chinese medicines for treatment. Clinically, according to the clinical symptoms for identification and treatment, common heart fire inflammation, spleen and stomach fire (fire evil invade the spleen and stomach), liver meridian heat, Yin deficiency fire, gastrointestinal dampness and heat and other types.
1. Yin Chen: It has the effects of clearing dampness and heat, relieving bile and jaundice (dredging the biliary tract of evil qi and eliminating jaundice). It is mainly used for jaundice with low urine output, dampness-warmth (warmth caused by feeling dampness-heat), summer dampness, and itching of wet sores. Its adverse reaction and contraindication is not clear at present.
2. gardenia: has diarrhea fire removes annoyance, clears heat and relieves dampness, cools blood and removes toxin efficacy. It can be used in heat disease, damp-heat jaundice, gonorrhea (urinate more often, gonorrhea astringent pain) astringent pain, blood-heat epistaxis (due to blood-heat caused by vomiting blood, nosebleed) and so on. This product is bitter and cold to the stomach, and should not be used by people with spleen deficiency and loose stools (thin and unformed feces).
3. Rhubarb: It has the effects of diarrhea and stagnation (treating constipation by clearing stools), cooling blood and detoxifying toxins, expelling blood stasis and clearing menstruation (removing blood stasis and clearing menstruation), and inducing diuresis to relieve yellowish coloration. It is mainly used in the treatment of solid-heat stagnation and constipation, blood-heat epistaxis, redness of the eyes and swelling of the pharynx, carbuncle and furuncle. Use with caution during pregnancy, menstruation and lactation.
When patients have oral ulcers, they should go to the hospital for consultation and use the medicine under the guidance of professional physicians, and should not use the medicine on their own to avoid delaying the condition.