What are the four big Huai medicines?

The four Huai medicines are the local specialties of Jiaozuo, which mainly refer to the four Chinese herbal medicines such as yam, Achyranthes bidentata, Rehmannia glutinosa and Chrysanthemum produced by Guhuai Qingfu (its geographical scope is equivalent to Bo 'ai, wen county, Qinyang, Wuzhi and Mengzhou in Jiaozuo).

China's earliest classic of pharmacology, Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, listed yam (Dioscorea opposita), rehmannia glutinosa, Achyranthes bidentata and chrysanthemum produced by Huaichuan as top grade. Later, famous medical experts in past dynasties further discovered the excellent primitiveness of Sihuai medicine from the outside to the inside, removing the rough and preserving the essence. So this theory has spread to this day and has become a brand.

Extended data

Yam contains mucin, a mixture of various sugars and protein, which can increase the lubricity of mucosa and skin and reduce subcutaneous fat accumulation. It is a good beauty food and can be taken alone or in combination. Yam porridge, yam wine, Liuwei Dihuang drink, Zishen Shenggan drink, etc. They all have the functions of strengthening bones and muscles, beauty beauty and keeping fit.

Yam is mild in taste and has the functions of moistening lung, strengthening spleen and tonifying kidney. It can not only tonify yang to enhance the function of viscera, but also tonify yin to nourish the material base. What's more gratifying is that it can strengthen the healthy energy without loving evil, and it can also be used when there are pathogenic factors. Therefore, on the basis of determining the therapeutic principle of strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil, doctors in past dynasties often choose it to formulate prescriptions, and its application range is very wide.

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