How can you not know more about the compatibility of traditional Chinese medicine in midsummer?

On the Dragon Boat Festival, the most popular plants are wormwood and calamus. These two plants are not only ornamental, but also contain good curative effects of traditional Chinese medicine.

For example, wormwood has the function of relieving itching and is often bitten by mosquitoes in summer. Applying wormwood antipruritic ointment can relieve itching. Acorus gramineus is often used to soothe the nerves and has a certain effect on symptoms such as irritability and insomnia in summer.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the effects of warming meridians to stop bleeding, eliminating dampness and relieving itching, dispelling cold and relieving pain, and Rhizoma Acori Graminei has the effects of waking up, improving intelligence, inducing resuscitation and resolving phlegm, and eliminating dampness and appetizing. The compatibility of Folium Artemisiae Argyi and Rhizoma Acori Graminei with different Chinese herbal medicines has different effects.

0 1 Folium Artemisiae Argyi can warm spleen meridian and dispel cold and dampness.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi is often made into traditional Chinese medicine. Folium Artemisiae Argyi has a great warming effect on women, especially women with deficiency-cold syndrome with bleeding symptoms, and the treatment effect is obvious. Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the function of warming the uterus for female friends, and also has a good effect of dispelling cold and relieving pain for those with deficiency cold and abdominal pain.

Women with cold and dampness can use mugwort leaves to eliminate dampness. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is pungent, bitter and warm, and enters the liver, spleen and kidney meridians. It is also effective for diarrhea patients and patients with cold and dampness.

In traditional Chinese medicine, people often use dried Folium Artemisiae Argyi to ignite mosquito repellent or make it into sachets to repel mosquitoes. Mashing Folium Artemisiae Argyi soaked in water and applying it to mosquito bites can also be used to relieve itching and pain. If it is made into moxa stick moxibustion, it is usually used to warm the middle warmer, tonify deficiency, promote blood circulation, dredge collaterals, relieve pain, reduce swelling, eliminate dampness and regulate spleen and stomach.

So what's the function of mugwort leaves? Let's take a look together.

1, treating women with leukorrhagia.

In Chinese medicine, Folium Artemisiae Argyi is often taken orally with Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Atractylodis Macrocephalae and Angelica sinensis, or washed externally with Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae and Fructus Cnidii to eliminate dampness and relieve itching.

2, treatment of eczema, skin itching and other symptoms

Traditional Chinese medicine is often used as a single medicine for external use, or smoked and washed with decoction of Cortex Phellodendri, Radix Saposhnikoviae and Fructus Zanthoxyli, or ground into powder with dried alum for external use.

3, treatment of cold-dampness syndrome.

Often decocted with dried ginger water. Patients with abdominal distension will also cooperate with Chenpi to promote qi circulation and relieve pain. When vomiting, nutmeg, Fructus Ke and Os Draconis are often added to stop diarrhea.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi has many functions, and people often assist medicinal diet.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi Zhitong porridge

Ingredients: brown rice100g, folium artemisiae argyi 30g, and brown sugar.

General practice: Wash Folium Artemisiae Argyi, put it in a pot, and add appropriate amount of water. Boil it into a thick soup, remove the residue and take the juice for later use. Add the washed brown rice into the wormwood leaf soup, cook it into thick porridge, and then add the brown sugar. Season and serve.

Usage: 65438+ 0 times a day, with meals.

Efficacy: Folium Artemisiae Argyi Zhitong porridge has the effects of warming meridians to stop bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain, and is beneficial to dysmenorrhea caused by deficiency-cold constitution.

Acorus gramineus is used to calm nerves, mostly for epilepsy.

Acorus gramineus is pungent, slightly warm, and enters the liver and lung meridians. It has good curative effect on unconsciousness, forgetfulness, deafness and epilepsy, and can promote blood circulation, regulate qi and eliminate dampness.

Acorus gramineus is also mainly used for epilepsy, excessive phlegm, amnesia, phlegm syncope, fever, dizziness, chest tightness, qi stagnation and deafness.

It is also effective for some patients with stomachache and abdominal pain.

What are the specific functions of Acorus gramineus?

1, calm down

Acorus gramineus contains volatile oil, and asarone in the volatile oil can play a sedative role, such as Acorus gramineus decoction, which has a certain antagonistic effect on convulsions caused by certain chemicals.

2, cooling effect

Acorus gramineus contains volatile oil with cooling effect, which can be used to treat high fever symptoms. Tablets made from Acorus gramineus are usually used to treat epilepsy and other central nervous system diseases.

3. Relieve cardiovascular effects

Acorus gramineus is often used to treat thoracic obstruction caused by phlegm-qi stagnation, such as coronary heart disease and pulmonary heart disease, which is often related to its functions of relieving asthma, improving digestive function, calming and relieving cough or increasing coronary flow.

There are also taboos in the use of Acorus gramineus, such as those with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of yang, or those with hypertension and vomiting blood and nocturnal emission.

See more health in summer.

It is hot in summer, and people's physical consumption is easy to increase. Too tired or staying up late, it is easy to reduce the body's own disease resistance and be invaded by bacteria or viruses.

Therefore, it is very important to ensure indoor cleanliness, reduce the reproduction and growth of bacteria, change clothes frequently and ensure personal hygiene. Reducing aggregation, ensuring fresh air circulation and exercising more can enhance your resistance.

Relieving summer heat is also an aspect of health. What should you pay attention to in a healthy diet?

1, should not eat tonic food.

Eat more medicinal diet to relieve summer heat, and it is not suitable for tonic in summer. It is advisable to eat less nourishing and hot foods such as mutton. Usually eat more fruits and vegetables and less greasy food.

2. Eat more light and digestible food.

Summer diet should be light and easy to digest, which can reduce the burden on the spleen and stomach. In summer, people's metabolism is faster than other seasons. For the health of the spleen and stomach, the diet should be based on nourishing the stomach.

3, you can eat cold food

Summer is easy to be hot and dry, and bitter food accounts for more coolness, such as bitter gourd. Alkaloids contained in bitter food have pharmacological effects such as relieving summer heat, relaxing blood vessels and promoting blood circulation.

4. Supplement various vitamins and nutrients

In the hot season, human metabolism is accelerated, so it is very important to supplement various vitamins and nutrients in time. For example, if you eat more vegetables such as tomatoes and calcium supplements, you can try stewing bone soup.

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It's hot in summer, so drinking more boiled water is helpful for detoxification and beauty. Pay attention to rest every day, improve sleep quality, and reduce staying up late and working overtime. Eating habits should be light, eat more vegetables, fruits and grains, don't be picky about food, and drink more soup with nutritional value. You should keep a happy mood every day, pay attention to more outdoor activities and exercise. Pay attention to sun protection in summer, and don't expose yourself to the sun.