Systemic lupus erythematosus can be attributed to the category of “yin and yang toxicity” in traditional Chinese medicine, and the treatment is based on tonifying the liver and kidney, clearing heat and removing toxins and cooling the blood in the acute stage, and nourishing the blood and opening up the collaterals in the chronic stage, and the use of drugs such as rhinoceros horn dixanthin soup and artemisia herbaceous turtle turtle turtle turtle soup in the treatment of SLE can be recognized.
1. Rhinoceros Jiao Di Huang Tang has the efficacy of clearing heat and removing toxins, cooling blood and dispersing blood stasis. It can be used to treat the syndrome of heat entering the blood (which is the deepest stage or location of the disease among the four periods of warm disease, namely, Wei Qi and Ying Blood). Symptoms include heat delirium (babbling), various kinds of bleeding caused by heat injury to the blood, purple and black spots, etc.; or frenzy of the mind, unwillingness to swallow gargled water, black stools that are easy to be discharged. It is contraindicated in cases of blood loss due to Yang deficiency and weakness of the spleen and stomach.
2. Artemisia soft-shelled turtle turtle soup has the effect of nourishing yin and transmitting heat, and is mainly used for treating night fever and early coolness caused by the late stage of warm disease and the evidence of yin division of the evil, no sweating when the heat subsides, red tongue with little moss, and fine pulse, etc. It is not recommended for people with yin deficiency and wind movement. It should not be used by people with yin deficiency and wind movement. Precautions and adverse reactions are not clear.
It is contraindicated for pregnant women and those who are allergic to the above drugs. The above formula needs to be used by professional Chinese medicine practitioners after diagnosis, avoid self-medication.