Gypsum and Zhimu can drink water, the two drugs belong to the same heat diarrhea Chinese herbal medicine, suitable for the lungs and stomach solid heat to take. However, it should be noted that the efficacy of taking water is limited, and may not be able to play a therapeutic role.
Gypsum is sweet, pungent, cold, and belongs to the lung and stomach meridian. Used raw, it has the effect of clearing away heat and fire, removing vexation and quenching thirst; it can clear away solid heat in the qi division of the lungs and stomach, and is used for coughing with lung heat, toothache with stomach fire, headache, and thirst. It needs to be decocted for a long time to treat diseases; it is not recommended for people with cold spleen and stomach and internal heat in yin deficiency.
Zhi Mu has the properties of bitter, sweet and cold, and belongs to the lung, stomach and kidney meridians. It has the efficacy of clearing heat and diarrhea, generating fluids and moistening dryness; it is used for fever and thirst, lung-heat and dry cough, internal heat and thirst (internal heat accompanied by symptoms such as eating, drinking and urinating), and intestinal dryness and constipation, etc. It is forbidden to use for those who suffer from spleen deficiency and have loose stools. Drinking Gypsum and Zhi Mu in water can improve the symptoms of solid heat, and if the symptoms are serious, it should be decocted for treatment.
The use of gypsum and motherwort, need to be taken under the guidance of a doctor to identify the evidence, do not buy their own medicine to use, to avoid the drug does not match the efficacy of the drug to cause adverse effects.