The five flavors of Chinese medicine: Cinnamon bitterness

Xin mouth tasted spicy or cool, some with aroma, able to disperse the table, qi and blood circulation, warming kidney impotence, suitable for exogenous symptoms, qi stagnation, cold chills, kidney deficiency syndrome. Such as Nepeta, perilla, tangerine peel, woody, Chinese angelica, turmeric, amaranth, Cnidium, silk and so on.

Sweet taste sweet taste, can reconcile the spleen and stomach, replenishing qi and blood, urgency and pain relief, apply to the body weakness, lack of function of the disease, and some of the irritable pain, and can reconcile the drug properties, such as licorice, Codonopsis, Rehmannia, caramel, Huang Jing, Dice and so on.

Acid (astringent)

With convergence, Guse astringent effect, suitable for spontaneous sweating, night sweats, chronic diarrhea rectal prolapse, urinary frequency incontinence, spermatorrhea vaginal discharge, bleeding under embolism. Such as keel, oysters, hawthorn, Chishizhi, glutinous rice, poppy husk, mulberry butterfly, raspberry, Gorgon fruit, lotus seeds, cherries, brown palm charcoal, and other cranes.

Qingqing detoxification, dampness, diarrhea, reducing gas, laxative, suitable for fever, dampness fever, carbuncle swollen sores, asthma cough, vomiting evil embolism, such as hawthorn, rhubarb, berberine, Sophora flavescens, almond, Honpo and so on.

Xianneng firmness, diarrhea, laxativeness, pingyang yang, suitable for constipation, hemorrhoids, tumors, liver yang headache, dizziness, such as seaweed, kelp, Glauber's salt, Cistanche, antelope horn, shizhiming Wait.

Qi (sex) and taste are two aspects of drug performance. The two are closely linked and coexist in one body, which determines the different functions and indications of drugs. Therefore, it is necessary to combine both gas and taste to analyze. Comprehensive understanding and proper use of drugs. Just like the sex medicine has five taste differences, the same taste drugs have four different gas, the same temperature of drugs are Xin Wen (Su Ye, ginger), sour temperature (Schisandra, hawthorn meat), Gan Wen (Dangshen, Atractylodes), Bitter temperature (Atractylodes lanceolae, Magnolia officinalis), salty temperature (Achillea, Cistanche); the same pungent drugs are Xin Han (Duckweet), Xin Liang (Mint), Xin Wen (Nepeta), Xin Hot (Aconite), Xin Ping ( Perrin). The same kind of drugs with the same taste combination, the main effect is similar, such as Su Ye, Nepeta, Slightly Xin Wen Wen, have sweating detoxification effect. Drugs with different tastes have different effects. There are similarities and differences in sexual effects, same tastes and different effects. Like medicines for coldness, they all have common heat, and they are different because of taste differences. More than, bitter cold, heat, diarrhea, cooling blood, detoxification, reed rhizome, Gan Han, heat, fluid, duckweed, Xin Han, evacuation, wind and heat, diuresis swollen; earthworms, cold and heat, cool, Tongyu asthma, gall cold convergence fire. Also like the sweet taste of the drug, the common place is tonic effect, but the yellow peony ginseng Gan warm qi, Ishigaki, Tanakan Gan Han heat heat, Bo Ziren Gan Ping Yang Xin. There are more than one person and two or more tastes, which reflects the multifaceted nature of the drug, such as Guizhi Xin Gan Wen, Angelica Gan Xin Wen, according to the primary and secondary efficacy of drugs, the taste of drugs also have a certain sequence.

In today's highly developed science, how to study the role of Chinese medicine is based on the four gases and five flavors of drugs. It is far from enough. The role of various drugs is the physiological effect of the ingredients it contains, and it has a certain material basis, such as Symptoms contain volatile oils, saponins, sweeteners, sugars and some nutrients, sour drugs contain organic acids, bitter drugs contain alkaloids and flavonoids, and salty drugs contain some inorganic salts, so modern pharmacology must be introduced. , pharmacology and other scientific and technological knowledge to study, sort out and improve.