An Old Remedy That the Whole Family Can Use: A Record of an Old Chinese Medicine Doctor

Chapter 16 Face is a big problem, small remedies for facial features worth having (2)
[Nurse said] "Dry mouth" is the same as xerophthalmia. Some people will have dry mouth very easily. The dry mouth is so dry that they often want to drink water. If they don't drink water, the throat and mouth will be dry to the point of discomfort. In fact, it is too much." "Dry mouth" is also a kind of xerosis.Or the patient with dry eye syndrome.Since our throat, eyes and nose are connected, the eyes mainly reflect the condition of the liver, while the feeling of the throat and mouth mostly reflect the health of the heart and lungs.The girl with dry eyes is especially prone to dry mouth and thirst while her eyes are dry, but she always thinks that the dry mouth is because she is really thirsty. Maybe it is because she eats too much salt in her diet or has developed sweat glands. Severe volatilization.In fact, she did not realize that she had a certain degree of xerostomia.When she went to see her grandpa, grandpa found out by looking at her mouth and tongue, so he taught her a very simple method, that is, let her go to the pharmacy to buy some goji berries, wash them and put them in a small clean box , Before going to bed, when you wake up from sleep, or even during the day, you can take it with you. Whenever you feel dry mouth, take some wolfberries to chew raw.

Sure enough, the girl came to thank her grandpa a few days later, saying that her dry eyes and dry mouth had improved a lot. This time, she sincerely came to ask her grandpa for some health knowledge and diet therapy.

[Grandpa said] Grandpa said that Zhang Xichun, a famous medical scientist in the late Qing Dynasty, once said in his book "Medical Hearts and Canxi Records" that he had done such an experiment. Put a pot of clean water, and every time you wake up due to dry mouth at night, you will take a sip. Before dawn, you will find that you have drunk a full pot of clean water.Later, I tried the raw wolfberry chewing method. Once I woke up with dry mouth, I grabbed a handful of wolfberry on the bedside and chewed it raw. When I woke up the next day, I found that I drank less than half a pot of water, which was a full bottle more than before. The situation that the pot is not enough to drink is much better, and after waking up in the morning, the body and mind are comfortable and full of energy.That's because wolfberry is sweet in taste, has the functions of nourishing kidney and essence, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, moistening lung and promoting body fluid, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine has always liked to use wolfberry as medicine to nourish yin and treat elderly patients with dry mouth.In recent years, clinical trials of modern medicine have also shown that wolfberry itself has the function of removing amino acids in the body, regulating the human immune system, and can directly stimulate saliva secretion, and the action of raw chewing itself can help stimulate saliva secretion. People with dry symptoms, or people who are prone to thirst and dry mouth can try the raw wolfberry chewing method.

In addition to nosebleeds caused by impact injuries, if there is no collision or injury, the nosebleeds are mostly due to the thinning of our nasal mucosa and the deterioration of blood vessel elasticity, or because the patient has repeated chronic inflammation and mucous membrane degeneration. thick, which leads to nasal dryness and epistaxis.Nosebleed is not a serious disease, but it cannot be ignored. First, it reflects the pathological changes of body functions. Second, if it is caused by high blood pressure or tumor, it will cause systemic symptoms.Therefore, small nosebleeds should indeed be given great attention.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, nosebleeds can be divided into two types, one is caused by lung heat, stomach fire, and liver fire; the other is caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency, yin deficiency and lung dryness, and spleen not controlling blood. The imaginary.The spleen-stomach meridians have different masters, and the deficiency and excess are different. Therefore, for frequent nosebleeds, it should be treated dialectically.

[Remedy [-]] Bamboo cane root water.

[Ingredients] 100 grams of coriander root, 250 grams of bamboo cane.

[Method] Decoct with water and drink instead of tea.

【Applicable people】Applicable to epistaxis caused by lung heat.

[Remedy [-]] Eclipta chinensis soup.

[Ingredients] Red Eclipta and Imperatae Rhizoma 30 grams each, a little lean meat.

[Method] Put the above materials together in a pot, stew 3 bowls of water until 1 and a half bowls of water, eat meat and drink soup.

[Applicable people] It is suitable for various blood heat and hemorrhagic diseases.

[Remedy [-]] Gardenia kernel porridge.

[Ingredients] 3~5 grams of gardenia kernels, 50~100 grams of japonica rice.

[Method] Boil the japonica rice first to make gruel, and then grind the gardenia kernels into powder. When the japonica rice is about to be cooked, put the gardenia powder into the porridge and cook for a while.

【Applicable people】Applicable to epistaxis caused by liver fire.

[The nurse said] In autumn and winter, many people have nosebleeds.In the absence of lesions, one or two occasional nosebleeds are not noticed by everyone. People will think that it is caused by hot body or dry weather.But once a long-term nosebleed can make people panic.

In the past, in the hospital, a strong man often came to the emergency department in autumn and winter, saying that he had a nosebleed again. After the examination, he said that the nasal cavity and nasal mucosa were normal, and it must be caused by the man’s excessive energy and blood. After first aid to stop the bleeding, the man left.

One day he came again and argued with the doctor that there must be something wrong with him, but he couldn't tell where the problem was.So I waited for him to stop the bleeding urgently, and then took him to see his grandfather.

After consulting the doctor, my grandfather confirmed that the man was not a joke because of too much blood, which caused nosebleeds. On the contrary, he was caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency and spleen not controlling blood, so he asked him to drink more gardenia kernel porridge.

One day in winter, the man came to his grandfather again and said that he had been drinking gardenia kernel porridge for a long time according to his instructions. He hadn't had a nosebleed in the past few months, but today he had it again.Grandpa looked strange, how could it be possible?So he was examined, and it turned out that the nosebleed was due to the dry winter.Grandpa told him that drinking gardenia kernel porridge can solve the nosebleeds caused by liver fire, but winter is cold and dry, and necessary measures to prevent cold and dryness are still necessary. Chinese medicine can regulate it through diet therapy and medicated diet.But diet therapy alone is not enough. More importantly, patients should pay attention to their own bodies. More protection and more conditioning are fundamental.

[Grandpa said] The above mentioned is a diet therapy for chronic and frequent nosebleeds, and it is a daily conditioning.However, in the process of nosebleeds, timely and effective measures should be taken to avoid excessive blood loss, which can damage the essence.If the patient's nosebleed is not serious, ask the patient to sit up with his head up, pinch both sides of the nose with the thumb and index finger, and press the front of the cartilage in the middle of the nose for a few minutes to stop the bleeding.If there is an environment with cold compress conditions, you can quickly let the patient lie flat, freeze the towel with cold water or ice cubes, apply the towel to the patient's forehead and nose, change the cold towel every few minutes, and quickly stop the bleeding after several changes.However, for patients with frequent nosebleeds, simple hemostasis is not a cure for the symptoms. Patients should be treated as soon as possible, find out the cause of bleeding early, prescribe the right medicine, and intensify the treatment, so as not to be careless and delay treatment.

Otitis media refers to an inflammatory disease in which all or part of the structures of the ear, including the eustachian tube, tympanic cavity, tympanic antrum, and mastoid air cells, are inflamed.Among them, secretory otitis media, acute suppurative otitis media, cholesteatoma otitis media, and barotrauma otitis media are common diseases. Suppurative otitis media is more common and develops rapidly, so it has received more attention.

In traditional Chinese medicine, otitis media is called "rotten ear" and belongs to the scope of "ear malnutrition" and "ear dampness". It is believed that otitis media is a common ear disease mainly manifested by eardrum perforation and ear discharge.Among them, suppurative otitis media, which has a greater impact and is more acute in the category of otitis media, is called "purulent ear" in traditional Chinese medicine. Here we focus on the treatment folk prescriptions for the treatment of suppurative otitis media.

[Remedy [-]] Walnut kernel oil.

【Medical Materials】Several walnut kernels, 3 grams of borneol.

[Method] Squeeze walnut kernel juice with a juicer or wrap it with gauze and pressurize walnut kernel oil juice, put it in a bowl, put 3 grams of borneol into it, and dissolve it.When in use, clean the pus in the ear with hydrogen peroxide, and then drop the oil of walnut kernels mixed with borneol into the ear, twice a day.

[Remedy [-]] Pomegranate flowers are scattered.

【Medical Materials】Several pomegranate flowers, appropriate amount of borneol.

[Method] Dry the pomegranate flower first, grind it into a fine powder, then put an appropriate amount of borneol, clean the ear pus with hydrogen peroxide before use, and then blow the powder into the ear, twice a day.

[Remedy [-]] Leek juice.

[Ingredients] 500 grams of leeks.

[Method] Wash the leeks, dry them, mash them, or use a juicer to filter the juice directly, put the leek juice into a bottle, add a little borneol, wash the pus in the ear with hydrogen peroxide before use, and drop 3 Drops, 3 times a day.

[The nurse said] A colleague came to chat with me all day long, talking about the great love history, and said that he wanted to break up with his boyfriend a few days ago.I asked her why, and she faltered.Later, it was not easy to catch her words. It turned out that she thought her boyfriend was sick.

ill?I thought to myself, will it be an andrology disease to the point of breaking up?Infertility or impotence and premature ejaculation?In the end, she told me it was rotten ears.Rotten ear is our daily common name, in medicine we call it otitis media.I breathed a sigh of relief and told her that from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, otitis media is really not a serious disease, but a minor disease among the five organ diseases, and it only needs a little adjustment.She excitedly continued to press me for details.I asked her about her boyfriend's symptoms.She said that her boyfriend's ears were always inflamed, and pus would flow out from time to time, accompanied by a little smell.I think her boyfriend must have suppurative otitis media.So I told her that I would ask my grandpa to see if there is any remedies to try.

Grandpa told me that it is not difficult to treat suppurative otitis media, just use walnut kernel oil, pomegranate flower powder or leek juice, and apply it on the ear.This is how I teach my colleagues.

After a period of time, she told me that her boyfriend was healed, and she used the recipe of leek juice, which is very simple. Cut the leeks into sections and stir them with a juicer, take the juice and apply it externally, and the symptoms will improve within a few days.

[Grandpa said] suppurative otitis media is more common in children with low immunity. Therefore, it is recommended that children reduce excessive drug treatment and try to start with simple and natural prescriptions to reduce the physical burden on children.At the same time, parents should pay attention to appropriately increasing children's physical exercise time, and pay attention to keeping warm and dressing during the winter and spring seasons.When washing hair, you can use earplugs to protect the ears and prevent sewage from entering the children's ears and causing infection.At the same time, since people's seven orifices are connected, it is also very important to rub the nose while avoiding ear infections.When encountering symptoms such as a cold, nasal allergies, or a cold, don't let the child rub the nose too hard, teach the child the scientific method of rubbing the nose, just press one side of the nostril with your fingers, and blow air out with a little force. The nasal mucus in the side nostrils can be blown out.At the same time, in order to avoid the aggravation of suppurative otitis media, if the otitis media does not improve after using the above prescriptions and the pus continues, it is recommended that the patient go to the hospital for treatment in time.Since the above prescriptions are natural and will not produce too many or serious side effects, it is okay to try them out. However, patients and their relatives should not use modern medicines such as antibacterials at will.

I believe that no matter children or adults, the elderly have experienced toothache.Toothache is a very tangled thing for people's life and work.Many people will jokingly describe toothache, saying "toothache is not a disease, and no one asks about the pain". It means that toothache seems to be insignificant. It is listed as a minor illness, but the unbearable pain of toothache and restlessness in sleeping and eating are really only "a dumb person who eats coptis, knows the pain himself".

In traditional Chinese medicine, the treatment of toothache is mainly divided into two categories: stomach fire toothache and deficiency fire toothache.Stomach Fire and Toothache refers to the excessive phlegm fire in people's body, which accumulates and does not leak out, and attacks the teeth upwards, resulting in toothache. During the period, most of them are accompanied by symptoms such as swollen gums, bad breath, constipation and slippery pulse. Prescriptions for healing and pain relief.Asthenic fire toothache refers to inflammation caused by asthenic fire, causing floating teeth and dull tooth pain. It is suitable to be treated with prescriptions for nourishing yin and reducing fire.

[Recipe Name] Pepper Soaked Wine.

[Medicinal materials] 10 grams of Zanthoxylum bungeanum pepper, appropriate amount of white wine.

[Method] Put the pepper into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, cook for about 5 minutes, add about 500 ml of white wine, and boil.Then turn off the heat, and after the pot is completely cool, filter out the peppercorns, and then pour the white wine peppercorn water into a clean bottle for later use.Once the symptoms of toothache appear, use a cotton swab dipped in white wine pepper water, put it into the toothache and bite it tightly, and the pain will be relieved soon.

[Nurse said] Toothache will not kill you, but no one knows when it hurts, because our teeth and mouth are connected to the nerves of the brain. Anyone who has had a toothache knows how difficult it is to sleep and eat.

The patient this time was me. At first, when I woke up in the morning and felt a toothache, I thought I was suffering from a deficiency fire, so I drank a glass of salt water to reduce the deficiency fire.As a result, after drinking salt water for two days, my teeth still hurt.I don't dare to go to the dentist, I have to repair it or pull it out at every turn, it's too scary.But I don't want to find my grandfather for a trivial matter like a toothache, it seems that I don't have the common sense of Chinese medicine.

But after a few days of pain, I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, and felt very uncomfortable. Finally, I had to ask my grandfather for help.Grandpa laughed when he saw me and said that toothache is not a trivial matter.Grandpa said that I didn't have a toothache caused by the rise of false fire, so drinking a liter of salt water would not help, so I was speechless.Grandpa said that my toothache was caused by stomach fire. It must be due to improper diet and internal dryness and heat.Therefore, my grandfather gave me a prescription for clearing heat and purging fire, and taught me to use prickly ash to make wine to relieve pain.Besides, I was caused by tooth decay this time, so my grandpa still took me to the dentist, and I was even more speechless.

Grandpa said that from the perspective of Chinese medicine, medicated diet therapy can treat toothaches of deficiency-fire, stomach-fire and dry-fire types, provided that it is not caused by tooth decay, and pepper soaked in wine is just a pain-relieving medicine and cannot cure tooth decay.If you really have tooth decay, the long-term pain is not as good as the short-term pain. The most direct way is to extract the tooth decay.

[Grandpa said] Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a very commonly used seasoning in our lives, but in fact, Zanthoxylum bungeanum is also a traditional Chinese medicine with a wide range of uses.Soaking pepper in wine to relieve toothache is because pepper has an anesthetic and pain-relieving effect on teeth, gums and other local areas.However, pepper soaked in wine still treats the symptoms but not the root cause. It can only be used as an analgesic for symptomatic treatment, but the root cause of toothache cannot be eradicated. To stay away from the suffering of toothache, it is best for patients to seek medical treatment in time.

Sometimes, we will cause various embarrassments in conversations or interviews because of our tone.Indeed, bad breath is a kind of stain on personal etiquette. No one likes themselves with bad breath. Many people even use mouthwash, chewing gum or breath freshener every day, but it is not enough to simply cover up the breath superficially. To change bad breath The most important thing is to grasp the root cause of your bad breath.

There are many reasons for bad breath, some of which are short-lived. For example, after staying up late, eating fried food, or eating irritating and spicy food, these short-term bad breath can be alleviated according to their own physiological adjustments.But some people don't stay up late or get angry, but have long-term bad breath, so they need to enter long-term conditioning.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the reason why people have bad breath is mainly because they like to eat cold drinks at ordinary times, which makes the stomach function trapped by cold pathogens and heat up, or they like to eat fried and spicy products, which is the result of excessive dryness and fire.If we find that there is a sour apple smell in our mouth, then it may be that the kidney function is damaged, and toxins accumulate in the body. The body sends a signal to us through exhalation. At this time, we must be vigilant and pay attention to a reasonable diet.

[Recipe name] Cucumber porridge.

[Ingredients] 50 grams of cucumber, 100 grams of japonica rice.

[Method] Cut the cucumber into small pieces, cook it with japonica rice to make porridge, season it after cooking, and then take it.

[Nurse said] A beautiful female colleague came to our office. At the beginning, everyone was happy to deal with her, but as time went by, everyone spoke ill of her because everyone thought she had bad breath.The colleague is very young, and looks very clean and hygienic, he must be very concerned about personal appearance, how could he have bad breath.Since girls like to save face, and I'm too embarrassed to say things like bad breath, I didn't take the initiative to find her.

As a result, a few days later, the new colleague probably noticed the criticism from his colleagues and asked me for help.She said that she knew she had a bad breath problem, but she did all the things like brushing her teeth and mouthwash, and often chewed gum, and often sprayed breath freshener after meals, but she didn't know why she still had bad breath.I said it might be something wrong with the viscera, so I took her to grandpa.

Grandpa said that my colleague had excessive dryness and fire, and the deficiency of kidney yin led to the accumulation of toxins in the body and the inability to expel them, resulting in bad breath. For this reason, we should eat more cucumber porridge.Cucumber porridge can clear away heat and detoxify, and has a good effect on purging fire and nourishing yin.

A week later, my colleague's bad breath was gone, and now I don't have to worry about the embarrassment of bad breath when talking with others.

[Grandpa said] In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, cucumber has the effects of clearing heat and quenching thirst, diuresis and dampness, reducing swelling and detoxification.Among the above-mentioned folk prescriptions, porridge is made of cucumber, and the patient keeps drinking it frequently, which can be used to treat dry mouth and bad breath caused by excessive liver fire, staying up late and getting angry, and endogenous damp heat.At the same time, using raw cucumbers directly or simply making cold cucumbers is also very effective in improving bad breath.People who suffer from bad breath for a long time can eat more.At the same time, patients with halitosis should mainly eat a light diet, drink plenty of water, and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits.Don't smoke and drink, eat too much spicy and fried food, especially green onions and garlic, which are easy to leave bad smell in the mouth.Brush your teeth in the morning and evening to keep your mouth clean and hygienic, because prevention is more important than cure.

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