The use of mainly sweet medicine into the tea or into the meal, in the four seasons of prevention, treatment of minor illnesses, serious aids and post-illness conditioning, etc. all play a multiplier effect, good efficacy, good taste, less side effects, easy to take, loved by the patients. Experiences are as follows.
1.Commonly used medicinal tea or medicinal food drugs
1.1 pungent warming relieving herbs: Gui Zhi, Fang Feng, Su Ye
1.2 pungent cool relieving herbs: peppermint (pungent), mulberry leaf (bitter sweet) chrysanthemum (pungent sweet bitter) floating pimples, cicada, shengma, kudzu root Xie Li, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Oncology, Second Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sichuan Province
1.3 diarrhea: sweet: reed root asparagus powder (slightly bitter) bamboo leaves, grain essence grass, mimosa, silver flowers, dandelion, Poria, mung beans, raw earth, Xuan Shen, comfrey, pendant grass, half branch of the lotus, white flowers, snake tongue grass, ground bone bark, silver Chai Hu; pungent: fishy grass; sour: horsetail
1.4 laxative: diarrhea leaves (sweet and bitter), fire hemp seeds
1.5 Wind-dampness expelling herbs: wuzhang snake, loofah, mulberry branch (bitter); acid: papaya
1.6 dampness: pungent: patchouli, pelargonium, sand, cardamom, grass cardamom, grass fruit, goldenrod, pendula
1.7 water-relieving drugs: poria, barley, poria, zedoary, winter melon skin, corn husk, gourd, shepherd’s purse, red bean, carpenter’s purse, sea sands, dong quai seeds, lantern grass, goldenseal
1.8 Warming herbs: pungent: cinnamon, cumin, ginger, pepper, clove, betel, pepper
1.9 Qi-regulating herbs: pungent: sandalwood, ocimum sanctum, daggerbark, sweet pine
1.10 Anti-food medicine: acid: hawthorn; sweet: wheat sprout, grain bud, laver’s seed1, hen’s nest, glutinous rice grass
1.11 anthelmintic: Radix et Rhizoma Polygonatum Pumpkin Seeds Cephalotaxus
1.12 Anti-bloody medicine: Bupleurum root2, ramie root, pueraria root, lotus root, dried lotus herb; slightly bitter: panax ginseng; pungent: nasturtium
1.13 Invigorating the Blood: Pungent: Chuanxiong, Red Flower
1.14 Phlegm-transforming herbs: Pungent: Radix Panax notoginseng, Radix Bacopa monniera, Radix Saponariae, Semen saponariae; Sweet: Rhizoma Bamboo, Rhizoma Bamboo, Rhizoma Dahuricae, Sweet Almond, Semen Bark; Salty: Seaweed, Kunbu, Sea Clam Shell, Sea Pumice, Valerianthus
1.15 Tranquilizer: Cinnabar, Phellodendron, Acacia Bark, Acacia Flower, Nightshade, Sour Date
1.16 Calm the liver and calm the wind: salty: stone cassia, mother of pearl, oyster, purple shell tooth
1.17 to relieve wind and spasm: sweet: hooked vine asparagus
1.18 Qi tonic: Ginseng, Radix Codonopsis, Radix Astragali, Radix Bupleurum, Fig, Fructus Mangium, Glycyrrhiza Uralensis, Jujube, Caramel, Honey
1.19 Cuscuta sinensis, Cuscuta sagittata, Eucommia spp. Walnut kernel, Cordyceps sinensis; pungent: Bacopa monniera, Epimedium sinensis, Phyllanthus aristolochiae, leek; salty: sea dog kidney, seahorse, cistanche, mealybug, Zi He Che; Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Shou Wu astringent, longan
1.20 North Saxifrage slightly bitter, South Saxifrage, Lily, Wheat Winter slightly bitter, Dendrobium, Rhizoma, Yellow Essence, Fructus Lycii, Mulberry, Black Sesame.
1.21 astringent: ephedra root, puffed wheat, glutinous rice root; astringent: lotus rice, gorgonian
1.22 Others: ginseng leaves, red ginseng beard, wood butterfly, cat’s claw
2, into the tea commonly used sweet herbs.
2.1 throat: ginseng leaves, wood butterfly; silver flower, plum blossom, chrysanthemum, hawthorn, cardamom; peppermint, daihai, orchid, xuan ginseng
2.2 headache: qiangwu, hosanna, anemone, manuscript
2.3 Choleretic: Moneywort, Hawthorn, Cardamom
2.4 Diuretic: Bai Mao Root Cornus
2.5 Clearing heat: reed root, white foxglove, silver flower, summer cress, mulberry leaf, chrysanthemum
2.6 Anti-vomiting: patchouli, hawthorn, cardamom
2.7 Nourishing the heart: red ginseng beard, lotus rice, lily of the valley, acacia
2.8 Stopping bleeding: Phellodendron Bupleurum, Phellodendron Aestivum
2.9 nourishing the kidney: red ginseng beard, wolfberry
3. Commonly used sweet herbs in meals
3.1 for the lungs: lily of the valley, coix seeds, ginkgo, ephedra root another heart and lung stew
3.2 for the spleen: Chuan Ming ginseng, north ginseng, yam, lotus rice, gorgonian, lentils, barley, astragalus, angelica, stewed duck liver, pork lean meat
3.3 for kidney: Eucommia, Fructus Lycii, Astragalus, Coix seeds, stewed pork loin
3.4 Dispersing cold and relieving pain: Chuan Wu, Cao Wu, Pithospermum
3.5 nourish the heart: cinnabar, red ginseng beard, lotus rice, dates, steamed pig heart
3.6 for the brain: asparagus, jujube seeds, Radix Panax notoginseng, steamed pig’s brain flower
3.7 for the liver: Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, Angelicae Sinensis, Jujube Peel, Stewed Pig Liver
3.8 for Qi: red ginseng, Chuan Ming ginseng, Bei Sha Shen, Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, Astragalus, Huai Yao, lotus rice, gorgonian, lentils, Coix seeds
3.9 Nourishing Blood: Astragalus membranaceus, Angelica sinensis, Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati
3.10 Nourishing Yin: Rhizoma Polygonati, Rhizoma Polygonati, Radix Rehmanniae
3.11 Laxative: figs, shouwu, fire hemp, angelica, stewed large intestine, ginseng
3.12 thirst: Radix Rehmanniae, Dendrobium, Dendrobium, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, Radix et Rhizoma, stewed pig pancreas