How did the naming of herbs come about? What are some very common herbs for clearing heat and removing toxins?

The Chinese medicine is our country's traditional material culture, thousands of years, the Chinese herbal medicine condensed a lot of wisdom and blood of the ancients, in the clinical use of a very important role, the variety of Chinese medicine is very much, some people are also very difficult to understand how to memorize these herbs, then, the naming of the Chinese medicine is how to come? What are the common herbs that clear heat and detoxification? Come to see.

1, the naming of herbs

The origin of the name: herbs due to the growth or cultivation of the soil as well as the different climatic conditions of the region, often affecting its function and efficacy. The ancients attached great importance to the "local herbs", often in the name of high-quality medicinal herbs on the name of the place in order to differentiate from other places of medicinal herbs. If there is a tonic effect of the drug produced in Shanxi Shangdang County, and thus named Dangshen. Bashu produces a kind of drug that looks like beans, so it is called Batou. Sichuan shellfish, Sichuan Huanglian, Sichuan pepper, etc., are because of its growth in Sichuan and named; wide wood, wide Chenpi, wide Yu Jin, etc., are because of the growth in Guangdong and named; Huai hyssop, Huai yam, Huai chrysanthemum, Huai shengdi known as the four big Huai medicine, because of the origin of the Huai Qingfu (now Henan Boai County, etc.) around the area and named; others, such as Colla Corii Asini, produced in Shandong Province, Dong'a, and so on.

The color of the name: some herbs are named according to the natural color of the original herb. Such as safflower flowers are red, rhubarb rhizome is yellow, black petunia seeds are black, comfrey root is purple. Others, such as cinnabar, honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, salvia, chicken-blood vine, cypress, golden lotus, red lady's mantle, green wind vine, are also due to its unique color and was named aptly medicinal name.

Name by flavor or special smell: There are quite a number of Chinese medicines named according to the flavor and special smell of the herbs, such as Elsholtzia palatine, Fragrant herbs, Patchouli, Fennel, Bitter ginseng, Sour plums, Sour jujube nut, Stevia rebaudiana, Licorice, Nine-scented bugs, Fishweed, and so on.

Naming by form: Some herbs are named according to the form of the plant or raw medicine. The root of ginseng resembles the shape of a man, hence the name ginseng. There is a kind of herb whose stems and leaves are covered with white hairs and look like the hair of an old man, so it is called white head. The tuberous root of aconite is named for its resemblance to the head of a crow; hyssop is named for the expanded portion of its stem that resembles the knee joint of a cow; aristolochia is named for its resemblance to the bell under the neck of a horse. Others, such as strychnine, epiphyllum, cat's claw, seven-leafed a flower, turn white grass, dragon's eye, dog's spine, etc., are also named because of their morphology.

Named because of the medicinal parts: in plants, such as Bai Mao Root, Ephedra Root, Mulberry Leaf, Suzi, Tangerine Peel, etc.; in animals, such as Tiger Bone, Deer Velvet Antler, Cicada Molts, Tortoise Plate, Chicken Neijin, Sea Dog Kidney, Whole Worm, Centipede, etc..

Named because of growth characteristics: some Chinese medicines are named according to their developmental characteristics. For example, winter flowers bloom in winter, Lonicera japonica does not die in winter, Xiaku Cao wilts at the summer solstice, Mulberry parasitizes the mulberry tree; others such as Cordyceps Sinensis, Sempervirens, Pitcher Plant, Sempervirens, Crocus sativus, Cyclamen, Chickweed, and so on, are all.

Animal names: such as poria, horseshoe lily, oxtail fern, sheep's liverwort, chicken blood vine, duck plantain, goose grass, cat's claw, tiger's club, wolfsbane, snakebeds, camel thorns, delphinium, Jinqi chrysanthemums, etc., are named by the animal and the name.

Named in honor of someone: it is the name of the person who first discovered or first used it as the name of the medicine. Such as make gentleman, He Shouwu, Liu Shunu, Du Zhong and so on.

Named in honor of a person: the name is given to the person who first discovered or first used it.

Named in honor of a person: the name of the person who first discovered or first used it.

Along the translation of foreign drugs: is based on the translation of imported drugs or the title of the word "tomato", "hu" and so on. Such as Mandragora, Horehound, Pamphlet, pepper and so on.

The efficacy of the name: some drugs in order to highlight its main properties, often directly to the efficacy of the name. Such as the wind is good at evacuating the wind evil; blood exhaust long in stopping bleeding; lock Yang can tonify the kidney and essence; Epimedium can make the ram love; Qianlong can be bright eyes; motherwort is good at regulating gynecological diseases; Tongcao can facilitate urination; Wang Buliuxing can be through the lactation; stretching tendons and grasses can relieve tendons and activate the collaterals; He Shouwu can tonify the liver and kidney, benefit the essence of the blood, treatment of premature whitening of beard hair; Dafengzi leprosy can be cured and so on are all because of its efficacy of the name.

Named because of the concoction (processing) method: such as licorice with honey stir-frying is known as roasted licorice, chaihu with vinegar stir-frying is known as vinegar chaihu, watermelon processing cream is known as watermelon cream, the raw land after repeated steaming is known as ripened land, and so on.

In addition to the above methods, some herbs have two characteristics, such as Huanglian is because of its yellow color, rhizome joints connected to the root, the fine Xin is because of its fine root and taste of pungent and so on.

2, clearing heat and detoxification of Chinese medicine

This kind of drugs function to clear away internal heat, relieve heat and poison, cool blood and diarrhea heat, mainly used for hot body and internal heat symptoms.

1, XuanShen

XuanShen is the root of XuanShen and BeiXuanShen of XuanShen family, containing XuanShenShenShen, cyclic enol ether terpene glycosides; it also contains volatile oils, alkaloids, etc.; Pharmacology test proves that XuanShen water infusion, alcohol infusion and decoction have the effect of lowering blood pressure; XuanShen also has the effect of dilation of blood vessels and cardiac effects; many kinds of XuanShenShen crumb plant invasive have the effect of suppressing the table and anticonvulsant.

The Chinese medicine believes that its nature is cold, taste sweet, bitter, function of nourishing yin and lowering fire, cool the blood and detoxification, suitable for fever and thirst, hair spots, bone vapor and labor heat, sleepless nights, self-sweating and night sweating, injuring the fluid and constipation and sore throat and other conditions.

Dosage: 6--12 grams; however, it is contraindicated in cases of loose stools and phlegm-dampness.

2, cassia seeds

Cassia seeds for the legume stewed leaf cassia or cassia seeds, containing anthracene esters and anthraquinone glycosides, cassia and vitamin A, etc. Pharmacological experiments have proved that: cassia seeds have the effect of lowering blood pressure and lowering serum cholesterol; there are a variety of antipathogenic bacteria and soft stool diarrhea effect.

The Chinese medicine believes that its nature is slightly cold, sweet, bitter, function of clearing the liver and eyesight, diuretic, suitable for liver heat or liver wind heat caused by the red eyes and astringent pain, shyness and tears, etc.; in addition to the treatment of hypertension, hepatitis, cirrhosis, ascites and habitual constipation, etc. is also effective.

Dosage: 3--9 grams, crushed and decocted.

3, the ground bone skin

The ground bone skin for the family Lycium barbarum root bark of Lycium barbarum, containing cinnamic acid, a variety of phenolic substances, betaine and linoleic acid, etc.; the ground bone skin has a significant antipyretic effect, the decoction of the decoction can make the blood glucose lowering, lowering the serum cholesterol and anti-fatty liver effect, the ground bone skin of the infusion of the animal has a significant role in lowering the blood pressure.

Chinese medicine believes that its cold nature, sweet taste, light, function of cooling the blood, retreating steam, clearing and diarrhea of lung heat, suitable for deficiency labor tide fever and night sweating, lung heat coughing and wheezing, blood-heat paranoia of vomiting, epistaxis, carbuncle and malignant sores, as well as pulmonary tuberculosis and hypertension.

Dosage: generally 3--9 grams.

4, rehmannia

Rhmannia is the underground stem of grass plant reed, containing coixin, asparagine and so on.

The Chinese medicine believes that its nature is cold, sweet taste, function of clearing heat and generating fluids, eliminate annoyance, stop vomiting, diuretic, suitable for heat illness and injury to the fluids, annoyance and thirst, stomach heat and vomiting, choking, regurgitation, as well as the treatment of lung heat and cough, carbuncle, etc..

Dosage: generally 9---30 grams of dried; 15--40 grams of fresh.

5, forsythia

Forsythia forsythia forsythia fruit, containing volatile oil, forsythia phenol, flavonoid glycosides, alkaloids, etc.; Pharmacological tests have shown that: forsythia has a broad-spectrum antimicrobial effect, containing forsythia phenol may be the main anti-bacterial component; forsythia also has an anti-inflammatory, antiemetic, diuretic and cardiac effects; contained flavonoid glycosides can enhance the density of capillaries, and thus on the rupture of capillaries due to hemorrhage, subcutaneous bleeding. The hemorrhage caused by capillary rupture, subcutaneous hemorrhage, etc. have the effect of hemostasis.

The Chinese medicine believes that its nature is slightly cold, bitter flavor, function of clearing heat and detoxification, dispersal of swelling, applicable to warm fever, dengtoxin, rash, carbuncle ulcers, swelling and venom and anaphylactic purpura.

Dosage: generally 6 - 9 grams.