Author: Traditional Chinese Medicine Master of Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital Affiliated to Jinan University Zhang Li
Xiao Chaihu Granules and Zheng Chaihu Die Granules are only one word different. Is it the effect the same? Are they all used for the same type of cold? Patients often cannot distinguish clearly when choosing, and even mistakenly think that it is the same. These two drugs include Bupleurum , ginger and licorice , but the main ingredients are different, so the main functions and indications and contraindications are also different. Let's see the difference below.
The ingredients are different
The same ingredients are Bupleurum, licorice, and ginger, and other ingredients are different.
1, bupleurum
Bupleurum, tangerine peel, windproof , licorice, red peony , ginger.
prescription: prescriptions are made by Chaihu, warm and relieve exterior evil, and use it to prevent wind and disperse wind and cold, and relieve pain; ginger is made by warm and dispersing, helping Chaihu, prevent wind and relieve exterior evil, and tangerine peels loosen the qi to help eliminate evil, so as to help eliminate evil, peony is beneficial to Yin and Ying, and prevent excessive extremity and damage yin, and are used as an adjuvant medicine; licorice is used to harmonize all medicines.
This prescription is calm and is suitable for those with good qi and blood deficiency and mild external wind and cold.
2, Little Bupleurum
Bupleurum, ginger, Pinellia ternata, Scutellaria baicalensis, Codonopsis pilosula, licorice, ginger, and jujube.
Prescription: Bupleurum exposes the evil of Shaoyang and dispels the stagnation of the qi, making it the king's medicine. Scutellaria baicalensis clears the heat of Shaoyang and is a medicine for ministers. Bupleurum and Scutellaria baicalensis are combined, one is dispersed and cleared, and together they resolve the evil of Shaoyang . Adjuvant medicine, Pinellia halva , ginger and stomach lower backward and stop vomiting; Codonopsis pilosula and jujube to nourish qi and strengthen the spleen. One is to remove the body and help the body to drive away evil, and the other is to take the body to replenish the qi and prevent evil from spreading. Use ginger and jujube together to harmonize the spleen and stomach, taking into account the exterior and interior.
Once diagnosed by Traditional Chinese medicine practitioner as Qi deficiency . People with blood deficiency should be encouraged to exorcise evil spirits. When they have a cold, they are suitable for choosing Xiao Chaihu granules.
functions and indications
1, bupleurum
exterior dispersing wind and cold, relieving heat and relieving pain, eliminating wind and eliminating diseases. It is used for the first occurrence of external wind-cold, fever and chills, no sweating, headache, nasal congestion, sneezing, itchy throat and coughing, and sore limbs. Influenza , mild upper respiratory tract infection. Especially when is cold, has a fever, it has a good effect on reducing fever.
This prescription is a representative prescription for the treatment of wind and cold created by Zhang Jiebin . Clinical application uses mild fever and chills, headache and body pain, white tongue coating and floating pulse as key points of syndrome differentiation.
This prescription is a mild case of external wind and cold symptoms. Wind and cold are bound to the surface, the pores are blocked, and Weiyang is curbed. Because the evil is mild, the symptoms are slightly aversion to wind and cold, fever, no sweating, headache and body pain, thin white moss and floating pulses are signs of wind and cold symptoms. If you experience wind and cold externally, it is best to relieve the exterior and disperse the cold.
1 exterior cold symptoms. Just lighten the skin and relieve the skin surface and cause slight sweating. The disease evil can be exposed. There is no need to use spicy and warm heavy agents, which will only damage the exterior.
2, Xiao Chaihu
1 relieve exterior dissipate heat, relieve liver and stomach, strengthen the body and eliminate evil, reconcile Shaoyang, and relieve triple burner .
This syndrome is caused by evil entering Shaoyang, the meridian qi is not good, depression turns into heat, gallbladder heat invades the stomach, and the stomach loses harmony and decline; or during the menstruation, evil heat takes advantage of the deficiency and passes into the blood chamber, and heat and blood junctions are not good during Shaoyang menstruation.
Evil is between the inside and outside, and a method of reconciliation is adapted. Xiao Chaihu particles can relieve the evil of Shaoyang and clear the heat in half of the exterior and half of the inside. They are used for external infections. The evil violates Shaoyang syndrome. The symptoms include cold and heat exchange, bitter chest and flanks, poor food, upset and vomiting, bitter mouth and dry throat, dizziness, thin white tongue coating, and stringy pulse. It is also used for women to catch colds and fevers during menstruation.
Precautions
1. Different points:
, wind-heat cold is not applicable.
Xiao Chaihu , avoid using wind and cold, excessive liver fire, and excessive liver yang.
2. Similarities:
① Children and elderly and weak follow the doctor's advice;
② Pregnant women, hypertension , heart disease, liver disease, kidney disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases follow the doctor's advice;
③ It is not suitable to use it together with tonic or warm medicine;
④ Avoid smoking, alcohol, spicy, raw, cold, fishy, and greasy foods during the use.
⑤ The symptoms did not relieve after taking for three days. Please go to the hospital immediately.
Reviewer: Deputy Director of Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Guangzhou Red Cross Affiliated to Jinan University Ye Fengying
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