Correct understanding of meridian-priming drugs
1. In order to recognize the meridian-priming medicine, we must first distinguish between meridian-priming and meridian-priming: Chinese medicine has found in long-term clinical practice that drugs can have selective effects on certain internal organs and meridians in disease states, so the concept of meridian-priming was introduced. Meridian attribution refers to the selective effect of herbal medicines on a certain part of the body. For example, if the same medicine is used for diarrhea of fire, Huang Lian is chosen for diarrhea of heart fire; Scutellaria for diarrhea of lung fire; Gentiana for diarrhea of liver fire; Zhi Mu for diarrhea of kidney fire; Moutong for diarrhea of small intestine fire; and Gypsum for diarrhea of stomach fire. Introduce meridians: Introduce meridians is a certain medicine to introduce other medicines into specific meridians. Chinese medicine prescriptions are concerned with the ruler and the minister, and in general, the meridian inducing medicine is the inducing medicine in a prescription. In a Chinese medicine prescription, a drug that can draw drugs that do not belong to a particular organ or meridian where the disease is located into that organ or meridian to exert therapeutic effects is called a meridian inducing drug. To some extent, the meridian-led drugs are equivalent to the drug carriers of Western medicine. The correct clinical use of meridian-triggering drugs, often with significant therapeutic effect.
2. The main functions of menstruation inducing drugs are
A, inducing the upward movement of drugs: a representative drug: orris. For example, Ginseng and Atractylodes: by means of Radix et Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae to carry the drugs upward, lead to the lungs, benefit the lungs and facilitate the flow of Qi, by means of the lungs’ essence and nourish the whole body. Ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala, benefit the qi and strengthen the spleen; nourish the stomach and the middle, poria, licorice, sand, yam, lentils for the spleen and stomach to cultivate the earth and generate gold. Coix seeds, lotus seeds meat to strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness (strengthen the spleen and tonify the lung), orris carrying the medicine upward, promote the lung and promote qi all drugs into the lung to tonify the lung.
Then, for example, Blood Mansion and Stasis Removal Soup uses Radix et Rhizoma oryzaeum to carry all the products to remove blood stasis upward to remove the stasis in the chest.
Second, to induce the downward movement of the herbs.
Radix Achyranthes bidentata can be used as a meridian inducer for diseases of the lower part of the body. Clinically, it is often added with the formula for the treatment of polyneuritis, sciatica, hemiplegia, and impotence of the lower extremities with good results. It is often added to the formula for the treatment of erratic upward flow of Qi.
Third, to induce medicine into the disease.
For example, mulberry branch leads the herbs to the arms and fingers, qiangwu leads the herbs to the upper extremities, doklam leads the herbs to the lower extremities, shaoyang headache specializes in chai hu, top headache uses gao ben, taiyin headache selects atractylodes, etc.
Fourth, inducing Qi to rise.
Sheng Ma and Chai Hu in tonifying Zhong Yi Qi Tang induce the clear qi to rise, so that the formula shows the function of benefitting qi to ascend. If you remove the hemp, Chai Hu, the formula only benefit qi and blood, but can not benefit qi ascending, lifting the lower organs. The “Compendium of Materia Medica” says: “Ascending marijuana leads Yangming clear qi upward, and Chai Hu leads Shaoyang clear qi upward…”.
V. Inducing fire to return to the vital energy: such as the cinnamon in Jin Kui Kidney Qi Pill
Sixth, inducing blood to move downward: Calming the liver and quenching the wind in Tang, using Niubizi as the ruler.
Seven, inducing the outward flow of evil: Chai Hu can open the internal closure of evil heat, so that Qi can reach the outside from the inside
Eight, to induce the downward movement of evil: in Yu Nui Decoction, Niu Knee induces the downward movement of evil heat to lower the fire of inflammation; in Si Miao Wan, Niu Knee also acts to induce the downward movement of heat.
3, twelve often seen to lead the meridian medicine
Hand Shao Yin Heart meridian: Huang Lian, Hossein
Hand Taiyin lung meridian: orris, onion, dahurica, dahurica Hand Conjunctive Yin pericardium meridian: bai hu, dampi
Hand Sun Small Intestine Meridian: Ligustrum, Phellodendron
Hand Yang Ming Large Intestine meridian: Dahurica dahurica, Sheng Ma, Gypsum
Hand Shaoyang Sanjiao meridian: Lianjia, Chaihu
Upper Jiao: Di Bone Bark
Middle Jiao: Green Bark
Lower Jiao: Radix Aconiti
Foot Taiyin Spleen meridian: Atractylodes, Asclepias, Pueraria lobata, Paeonia lactiflora
Foot Conjunctive Yin Liver meridian: Qing Pi, Wu Ju Ju, Chuan Xiong, Chai Hu
Foot Shao Yin Kidney meridian: Dou Wu, Cinnamon (Gui Zhi), Hesperidin, Zhi Mu
Foot Yang Ming Stomach meridian: Dahurica dahurica, Sheng Ma, Ge Ge Gen, Gypsum
Foot solar bladder meridian: Qiang Wu
Foot Shaoyang gall bladder meridian: Chai Hu, Qing Pi
4.Flexible application of meridian-priming drugs, need to pay attention to
A. The role of inducing the meridian, not unchanged The concoction can change the properties of the drug, such as earth fried into the spleen, salt fried into the kidney, vinegar into the liver, honey to the
The lungs, wine fried upward. The guiding effect of meridian-introducing drugs will change with different concoctions.
Second, the use of identification, targeted The use of meridian-introducing drugs, should be based on the premise of identification, taking full account of its own medicinal properties and functions, as far as possible, the unity of function and guidance, so that the drug effect can be fully developed. For example, in the case of Huang Lian and Hsiang Xin, which are used to induce meridians in the heart meridian of hand Shao Yin, Huang Lian is chosen to clear the heart fire, while Hsiang Xin is used to open the heart yang. For example, in the recipe for pain and diarrhea, Fangfeng can not only induce medicine into the spleen, but also disperse liver depression, soothe the spleen, and stop diarrhea by winning dampness; in the case of Chaihu of Gentian and Liver Diarrhea Tang, it can not only induce medicine into the liver and gallbladder, but also soothe the liver and gallbladder.
Third, pay attention to the function, not constrained to lead the meridian
Clinical evidence of the use of drugs and prescriptions, it is important to look at the basic function of drugs, rather than just emphasize the role of a drug to induce the meridian. Although the role of inducing menstruation is important, but not necessary. Therefore, the role of meridian-priming drugs should not be overstated.
Fourth, not only to make the drug, but also the main drug Generally, the meridian-introducing drugs only play a “meridian-introducing” role, it seems to be only the adjuvant drugs in the compound. In fact
In fact, many of the inducing drugs can be used as the main medicine in the formula, both as the ruling drug, but also to make the drug, such as gypsum in Baihu Tang, Ge Gen in Scutellaria Tang, etc..
The first is to use the same name of the meridians of the hands and feet, especially the twelve meridians. Such as Chai Hu
A medicine, can be the same hand and foot sympathetic Yin and hand and foot Shao Yin four meridian inducing medicine. Another example is that the hand and foot Taiyin and Yangming meridian inducing medicine, where the ascending marijuana into the four meridians, dahurica is also into the three meridians, gypsum, Ge Gen is also into the two meridians.
5, skin diseases and meridian-attracting drugs.
Skin diseases and meridian identification: head and neck sores belong to the foot sun bladder meridian; whirling ear sores on the ear are related to the foot shao yin kidney meridian; psoriasis on the eyelids belongs to the foot sympathetic yin liver meridian; skin lesions on the lips and mouth are related to the foot tai yin spleen meridian; and rosacea is the hand tai yin lung meridian; the outer extremities belong to the hand and foot three yang meridian; the inner extremities belong to the hand and foot three yin meridian, and skin lesions occurring around the body can all be unified by the meridians. If the skin lesions are widespread and spread over several meridians, the initial site of the lesion is the main one, and the remaining meridians are identified together. Most of them are located in the Yang meridian and more than half of them are in the Yin meridian. Yang meridian skin lesions are generally easy to treat and effective, while Yin meridian skin lesions are more lingering. The forehead belongs to the Yang Ming meridian, and for skin lesions on the forehead, it is appropriate to add Yang Ming meridian medicine – Angelica dahurica, Pueraria lobata, etc. to lead the medicine directly to the disease; the back of the neck belongs to the Sun meridian, and for skin lesions on the back of the neck, it is appropriate to add Sun meridian medicine – Qiang Wu, Fang Feng, etc. to lead the medicine directly to the disease; the two sides of the head belong to the Shao Yang meridian, and if the skin lesions are located on the two sides of the head, it is appropriate to add Shao Yang meridian medicine to lead the medicine directly to the disease. If the lesions are located on the two sides of the head, then Shaoyang meridians such as Chai Hu and Chuanxiong should be added to clear the liver and gallbladder (liver and gallbladder are mutually exclusive); lesions located on the upper part of the body should be added with some light and hairy products such as Fang Feng, Peppermint and Mulberry Leaf to help the medicine reach the membrane; similarly, lesions located on the lower part of the body should also be added with some medicines that lead the medicine downward, such as Niubizi, Doklam and Lugen. For example, if herpes zoster occurs on the face and neck, add dahurica dahurica, on the chest and back, and on the lower abdomen and lower limbs, add hyssop.
6.Doctors’ experience
The use of meridian-attracting drugs is emphasized in the treatment of AD by Yu Tu Gen: the same disease is treated separately by differentiating different types of evidence. In addition to the treatment according to the differentiation of the symptoms, we should add the meridian-triggering medicine to enhance the therapeutic effect, especially when the lesions are limited, we should pay more attention to the use of meridian-triggering medicine. For example, for the face: Scutellaria baicalensis and wild chrysanthemum; for the waist and back: Mulberry, Eucommia, and Sequoia; for the chest and back: Chai Hu and Yin Chen; for the lower extremities: Niubizi and Papaya; for the upper extremities: Sangzhi and Jiang Huang; for the head: Sheng Ma, Qiang Wu, Bai Zhi, and Sang Bai Pi; for the eye: Gu Jing Cao; for the ear: Chai Hu and Baicalin.
Zhao Bingnan’s experience with meridian inducing herbs.
Head: Ligusticum or Chuanxiong; face: Chrysanthemum, Lingxiaohua; eyelids: Gu Jingcao; eyebrow ridge: Angelica dahurica; nose: Xin Yihua; ear chakra: Gentiana; mouth and lips; Gorgonian; chest: Hou Pao; waist: Du Zhong; back: Hou Pao, Du Zhong; abdomen: Jiang Hou Pao; breasts; orange peel, Mulberry leaf; anus: Fang Qi, Bitter Ginseng; scrotum: Che Qian Zi, Gentiana; female genitalia: Serpentine; upper limbs: Piece of Ginger Huang; lower limbs: Papaya The lower extremities: papaya, Chuan Niu Knee, henbane; extremities: mulberry branch.