buffalo horn
The horns of the bovid animal, the buffalo. Split it, soak it in hot water, take it out, slice it and dry it in the sun. Mainly produced in South China and East China.
【Meridian distribution of nature and flavor】Salty, cold. Guixin, liver, stomach meridians.
[Efficacy] Clear away heat, cool blood, and detoxify.
【application】
1. Used for febrile diseases with heat entering the blood, persistent fever, coma and convulsions. This product can enter the blood, clear the fire of the three meridians of the heart, liver and stomach, and has the effect of cooling the blood and detoxifying.
To treat febrile diseases with heat and enter the nutrient blood, the symptoms include body heat, irritability, dizziness, and red tongue. It is compatible with Rehmannia glutinosa, Scrophulariaceae, paeonol, honeysuckle, forsythia, etc.
For the treatment of high fever, irritability, convulsions and convulsions, it is compatible with antelope horn, plaster, etc.
2. Used for vomiting blood, epistaxis and other symptoms caused by excessive blood heat. This product has the effect of cooling blood and is compatible with raw rehmannia root, paeonol bark, red peony root, etc.
3. Used for macula erysipelas. This product has strong effects of purging fire, detoxifying, cooling blood and eliminating spots. It is compatible with paeonol bark, lithospermum, etc.
【Dosage】90~450g for horses and cattle; 20~50g for pigs and sheep; 3~10g for dogs.
【Taboo】Use with caution on pregnant animals and not for those with spleen and stomach deficiency. Fear of Sichuan Crow and Grass Crow.
Rehmannia glutinosa
It is the root of Rehmannia glutinosa, a perennial herbaceous plant of the Scrophulariaceae family. Excavated in autumn, used fresh or dried. It is mainly produced in Henan, Hebei, Inner Mongolia and Northeast China, and is mostly cultivated.
[Meridian distribution of nature and flavor] Sweet, bitter, cold. Guixin, liver, lung meridians.
[Efficacy] Clear away heat and cool blood, nourish yin and promote fluid production.
【application】
1. Used to nourish blood and nourish blood. This product is sweet, cold and moist in nature, bitter and cold to clear away heat. It is used to nourish blood and is an important medicine for clearing heat, cooling blood, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production.
To treat febrile diseases, heat enters Yingxue, strengthens heat, causes dizziness, dry mouth and tongue, and is compatible with Scrophulariaceae, buffalo horn, etc., such as Qingying Decoction.
To treat the late stage of febrile disease, where residual heat has not been exhausted, body fluids have been damaged, night fever and early coolness, red tongue and rapid pulse, it is compatible with turtle shell, artemisia annua, anemarrhena, etc., such as Qinghao turtle soup.
2. Used for blood-heat disorder, macules and vomiting.
.This product clears away heat and purges fire, cools blood and stops bleeding. It can be used together with fresh lotus leaves, raw moxa leaves, and raw arborvitae leaves to treat blood-heat, vomiting, and bloody stools.
It can be used to treat febrile diseases where heat enters the nutrient blood, blood heat and poison are excessive, vomiting blood and nosebleeds, and purple and dark macules. It can be used together with red peony root and paeonol bark.
3. Used for treating wounds and thirst, internal heat and thirst. This product is sweet and cold, clears away heat and nourishes yin, produces fluid and quenches thirst.
Treating internal heat and quenching thirst, it is used equally with Ophiopogon japonicus, Adenophora adenophora and Polygonatum odoratum.
To treat febrile diseases that damage yin, intestinal dryness and constipation, it can be used together with Scrophulariaceae and Ophiopogon japonicus, such as Zengye Decoction.
【Dosage】30~60g for horses and cattle; 5~15g for pigs and sheep; 3~6g for dogs; 1~2g for poultry.
[Contraindications] This product is cold and stagnant in nature, and should not be used by those with spleen deficiency and damp stagnation, abdominal fullness and loose stools.
Pulsatilla
It is the root of Pulsatilla, a perennial herbaceous plant of the Ranunaceae family. Digging in spring and autumn. Remove the leaves and remaining flower stems and fibrous roots, retain the white hairs on the roots, dry them in the sun, and use them raw. Mainly produced in Northeast China, North China and other places.
【Nature and flavor】Bitter, cold. Returns to the large intestine meridian.
[Efficacy] Clear away heat and detoxify, cool blood and stop dysentery.
[Application] Used for heat-toxic dysentery. This product is bitter and cold, reduces diarrhea, clears heat and detoxifies, cools blood and stops dysentery. It is especially good at clearing gastrointestinal dampness and heat and blood toxins. It is a good medicine for treating heat-toxic and bloody dysentery.
To treat heat-toxic dysentery, it can be used alone or in combination with Coptis chinensis, Cortex Phellodendri, and Qinpi, such as Pulsatilla decoction.
It has good effect in treating bacillary dysentery.
To treat malaria, it is compatible with Bupleurum, Scutellaria baicalensis, Betel nut, etc.
[Dosage] Horses and cattle 15~60g; pigs and sheep 6~15g; dogs 1~5g; poultry 1~2g.
[Taboo] Do not take it due to deficiency, cold, diarrhea and dysentery.
Scrophulariaceae
It is the root of Scrophulariaceae, a perennial herbaceous plant of the Scrophulariaceae family. They are excavated before and after the beginning of winter, piled and sun-dried repeatedly until the inside is black, dried, sliced, and used raw. Produced in the Yangtze River Basin of my country, Shaanxi, Fujian and other places.
【Meridian distribution of nature and flavor】Bitter, sweet, salty, cold. Returns to lung, stomach, kidney meridians
[Efficacy] Clear away heat and cool blood, nourish yin and detoxify.
【application】
1. It is used for the treatment of warm evil entering the camp, invagination of the pericardium, plague and spots, body injury and constipation, etc. It is cold and moist in texture. Its functions are to clear away heat and cool blood, nourish yin and moisturize dryness, purge fire and detoxify.
This product is bitter, sweet, salty,
For the treatment of febrile diseases with heat entering the nutrient component, such as body heat at night, irritability, thirst, red tongue and rapid pulse, it is compatible with Radix Rehmanniae and Ophiopogon japonicus, such as Qingying Decoction.
To treat warm-heat pathogens such as invagination of the pericardium, coma, and convulsions, it is compatible with raw rehmannia, peony, paeoniae, etc., such as Xijiao Dihuang Decoction.
To treat febrile disease with qi and blood burning, spots and rashes, it can be combined with gypsum, anemarrhena, etc., such as Huaban Decoction.
2. Used for sore throat, scrofula, phlegm core, and carbuncle sores. This product is salty and cold. It has the functions of clearing away heat and cooling blood, detoxifying and dispersing stagnation, soothing the throat and reducing swelling.
It can be used to treat exogenous plague and sore throat caused by heat and poison. It can be used with mint, forsythia and isatis root, such as Puji disinfectant drink.
To treat swelling and pain in the throat caused by yin deficiency and excessive fire, it can be used together with Ophiopogon japonicus, Platycodon grandiflorum and licorice.
To treat scrofula and phlegm core due to stagnation of phlegm fire, it can be used together with Fritillaria and raw oysters.
To treat sores, swelling and poison, it is compatible with honeysuckle, forsythia suspensa, purpurea purpurea, etc. To treat bone steaming fever, it is compatible with Digupi, Yinbupleurum, Danpi, etc. To treat internal heat and quench thirst, it is compatible with Ophiopogon japonicus, Schisandra chinensis, Lycium barbarum, etc.
【Dosage】15~45g for horses and cattle; 5~15g for pigs and sheep; 2~5g for dogs; 1~3g for rabbits and poultry.
[Taboo] This product is cold and stagnant in nature. It should not be taken by those with cold spleen and stomach, lack of food and loose stools. Veratrum veratrum.