[Yujian Traditional Chinese Medicine] Medical eyes to see "Red Mansion": "Supplement" will hurt your body

"Dream of Red Mansions" is a masterpiece of literature that is higher than life, and it is also a large -scale book that originated from ancient life. Many details in the book, and even the character's character and fate of the characters secretly coincide with the mystery of medical science.

In the 45th round of the book, Baodi visited Daiyu in the illness not only put forward the view of "gardenians", but also made a reasonable analysis of the use of medicinal materials -

Baodi Dao: "Yesterday I saw your prescription, ginseng cinnamon felt too much. Although it was nourishing qi and replenishing the gods, it was not too hot. According to me, first use the liver and stomach. Earth, stomach qi without disease, you can raise people with diet. Get up early every day and get one or two for bird's nest, five dollars of rock sugar, and cook porridge with silver dumplings. Yin Qi. "

In the circle of friends of Chinese medicine, we often hear such a sentence, "People ginseng kill people, and the aconite saves people without merit." Why? Because in the hearts of the people, ginseng is "big supplement", and the aconite has "great poison".

However, "big tonic" is good. Is "big poison" bad?

it's not true!

As Baodi analyzes, there are too many ginseng and cinnamon. Although it is beneficial to nourish the qi, it is inevitable that the heat of the liver has been hurting and hurting Daiyu, and the internal heat will be more injured. Therefore, this prescription is inappropriate. At this time, it is even more to do the liver and healthy stomach, and even diarrhea and liver fire. In this way, the liver fire is flat.

Based on this, Baodi recommends rock sugar bird's nest to Daiyu. Bird's nest has the effects of nourishing lung yin, phlegm, and cough, which can treat lung deficiency cough, cough, hemoptysis and other symptoms; The role of the lungs can stop cough and phlegm.

This recommendation of Baodi is indeed very medical literacy, which is very suitable for Daiyu. But there is a little confusing. How did the good rock sugar become snowflakes and ocean sugar? The effects and classics of these two are different!

Finally, let me simply tell you about the "toxicity" of traditional Chinese medicine.

Many people refer to Chinese medicine as defined by "big supplements" and "toxic". For example, when you are ginseng, velvet antler, and wolfberry, you will say "these can replenish the body", and even the patients actively asked the doctor to prescribe some of this "tonic". The reaction is: "This is poisonous!" "Can you not use this in my medicine?"

In fact, traditional Chinese medicine is to use the bias of the drug itself to regulate the method of biasedness of the human body. The therapeutic effect and toxicity of the drug are different for different people. Not to mention that in the process of drug composition prescriptions, doctors will also use the combination of monarchs, ministers, Zuo, and envoys to reduce toxicity and increase their efficacy.

The introduction of the drug in this article refers to the "Chinese Medicine Dictionary".

Source: Henan Province Health and Health Propaganda Education Center

Author: Book Xiaoyan

Edit: Yu Kunpeng

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