Interesting talk about the “medicine guide” in traditional Chinese medicine

The “medicine guide” is a jade pendant, a rare and precious jade. However, jade does have certain medicinal value. Shennong Ben Cao Jing”, “Compendium of Materia Medica” and other ancient medical books have recorded: jade salt cold, “in addition to the heat, to relieve distress, moistening the heart and lungs, voice and throat, nourishing hair, nourishing the five organs, An Soul, dredge the bloodstream, bright ears and eyes” and other therapeutic effects, stagnation after the Ma Huang will be born with the internal heat, with which to lead, is in line with the mechanism of the disease. “Medicine guide” plays an important role in the formula soup. Chinese medicine believes that the meridians are the pathways for the operation of the body’s qi and blood. The blood through the body meridians, access to the surface ‘viscera, nutritional limbs and bones, sinews and fur. Meridians make the human body form a unified organic whole inside and outside. The “medicine guide” is like a guide, it will lead the medicine to a meridian organs and body parts for targeted treatment. That is to say, the special role of the “medicine guide” is to guide the medicine directly to the place of disease, there is a guide to the wonderful use. There are many kinds of “medicine guide”, but the main single-flavored medicine. For example, Platycodon grandiflorus opens and declares lung qi, leads the medicine upward, and is mostly used in the upper jiao lesions; hyssop tonifies the kidney and strengthens the tendons, and leads the medicine downward, and can be cast in the lower jiao lesions; the treatment of solar meridian disease with qiangwu, fengfeng; yangming meridian disease with lengma, geran; shaoyang meridian disease with chaihu; the laryngeal and pharyngeal disease with Platycodon grandiflorus; upper limb disease with mulberry branch; lower limb disease with hyssop, etc., and the clinical test is more than beneficial. Ginger has sweating, warming, warm lung cough effect, treatment of wind-cold cold, stomach cold vomiting, commonly used ginger 2-3 slices as a guide. Scallion white can disperse cold and Yang, detoxification and dissipation of knots, treatment of cold and wind-cold, urinary occlusion, commonly used 5-7 roots as a guide. The addition of ginger and scallion white to the pungent and warming antidepressants enhances the sweating and antidepressant effects. Jujube can benefit qi and tonify the middle, nourish blood and tranquilize the mind, harmonize the medicinal properties, when using Gan Sui, Coriandrum sativum, Morinda citrifolia and other harsh medicines, Jujube is often taken to moderate the medicinal properties in order to prevent poisoning. For the treatment of kidney yin deficiency of six flavors of dihuang pill, qiji chrysanthemum dihuang pill, it is appropriate to use warm salt water to serve, take its salt can enter the kidney function. Vinegar can dissipate blood stasis, relieve pain and astringency, and it is often used to take a tablespoon of vinegar as a guide for the treatment of women’s undercarriage, blood-heat disintegration, ascariasis and abdominal pain. Brown sugar can nourish blood and remove blood stasis, and it is often taken as a guide when treating maternal malignant leakage and abdominal coldness and pain. Doctors in the prescription of medicines, if you can correctly apply the citation, often have twice the result with half the effort, the effect of medicine to the disease.