During menopause, the tranformative function of qi for five zang becomes insufficient, kinds of physiological function are weakening correspondingly, ascending-descending and exiting-entering of functional activities of qi are unorderly, It is sometimes appears the symptomes of headache, dizziness, insomnia, forgettery, upsetting sensation, irritability, fullness sensation on chest, distention-fullness sensation on abdomen, uneasy emotion, soreness sensation of the whole body etc, so much as appears some complex situation of multifold pathologic change of commixture of deficiency-excess. Headache is one of the familiar and refractory symptome. In the near few years, we mainly useTwo Huang powder to treat headache and with the modification of combination of decoction, and achieve satisfying clinic effect.
Huang Qi tastes sweet with slightly warm nature, it has the function of regulating nutrient qi and defensive qi, nourishing zangfu organs, dispersing body fluid, procreating muscles and skin, treating meridians, harmonizing blood vessels, expeling the pain symptome of every meridian. The ancients and modern doctors ordinarily use Huang Qi for replenishing qi and strengthening exterior, It is often used for draining pus to promote healing and seldom used for stopping pain. But Huang Qi is surely effective for pain, it might relates with the function of adjusting nutrient qi and defensive qi, treating meridians, harmonizing blood vessels, promoting twelve meridians. Da Huang tastes bitter with cold nature, it has the function of washing away stasis, geting rid of the stale and bringing forth the fresh, calming down five zang and strengthening six fu organs, harmonizing blood and relieving toxicity, eliminating evil of three jiao. Huang Qi combines with Da Huang, one has the function of reinforcement and the other one with the function of eliminating, one ascending and the other one descending, one warm and the other one cold, they can eliminate evil and strengthen genuine. sending up the lucid and descending the turbid, making qi and blood flowing freely, furthermore, they are cold and without harmfulness to stomach, warm without remaining evil, they are following and assisting each other and bring out the best in each other.
Key Words: menopause headache, self made Two Huang Powder
Writer: Li Fang Lan
Zibo district medicinal materials Co., Zibo City, Shandong Province (255400)
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