20 18 Tianjin medical and health recruitment examination: classification, efficacy and indications of summer-heat drugs

In the cold winter, it's a bit funny to talk about summer medicine. The most unsuitable prescription this season is summer medicine. So in what season can summer medicine be applied? Suitable for hot and humid seasons. Summer heat is yang evil and hot in nature. Therefore, summer-heat diseases are mostly manifested as a series of symptoms of yang-heat, such as body heat, flushed face, upset, short and red urine, red tongue, rapid or heavy pulse and so on. In addition, summer-heat disease often has multiple syndromes, with summer-heat spreading upwards, which is most likely to damage body fluid and consume gas, and often causes symptoms such as thirst, fatigue and insufficient gas; In Xia Yue, the heat is pressing, the ground is wet and steaming, and people are in the hot and humid air. Therefore, summer sickness is often accompanied by dampness, chest tightness, white and greasy fur and other dampness blocking qi activity; In summer, lying in the open air, not sheltering from the wind and cold, coupled with loose joints and yang leakage, is prone to illness and cold. Different summerheaters are used in different situations. Summer-relieving agents include summer-relieving and exterior-relieving agents, summer-relieving and dampness-promoting agents, and summer-relieving and qi-benefiting agents.

The representative prescription for removing summer heat and relieving exterior syndrome is Elsholtzia powder, which comes from Taiping Huimin Hejiju Prescription and consists of Elsholtzia, white lentils and Magnolia officinalis. This product can dispel summer heat, relieve exterior syndrome, and eliminate dampness and middle warmer. Indications are yin deficiency and summer heat. Symptoms include aversion to cold, fever, anhidrosis, headache, lethargy, chest tightness and nausea, or abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, white and greasy tongue coating and floating pulse.

The representative prescription of the agent for removing summer heat and promoting diuresis is Liuyisan, which comes from Huangdi Su Wen Xuan Ming Lun Fang and consists of talc and licorice. The ratio of these two drugs is six to one, which can clear away summer heat and promote diuresis. Indications are summer-heat dampness syndrome. Symptoms include body heat, polydipsia, dysuria or diarrhea.

The representative prescription of the agent for removing summer-heat and benefiting qi is Qingsummer-heat and benefiting qi decoction, which comes from warming warp and weft and consists of American ginseng, Dendrobium, Ophiopogon japonicus, Coptidis Rhizoma, bamboo leaves, lotus stalks, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, japonica rice, watermelon and Cui Yi. Function can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, replenish qi and nourish yin, promote fluid production and quench thirst. Indications: heat, qi and body fluid. Body heat and sweating, thirst and upset, short and red urine, fatigue and weak pulse.

Generally, fresh drugs should be used to remove summer heat in order to achieve the purpose of clearing summer heat. In the examination, the composition ratio of Liuyi Powder was mainly investigated, focusing on the efficacy and indications of removing summer heat. For more knowledge of Chinese medicine, please pay attention to Health Talent Network. I wish you something and good luck in the exam.