The taste of Chinese herbs is normalized

Not scientifically validated, for reference only

Chinese materia medica sex :

Cold, cool, warm, hot, flat

Chinese Herbal medicine Taste:

Sour, bitter, gan, Xin, Cheng

Four sexual five of Chinese herbs and the attribution of sexual taste
Four-sex
As we all know, food has acid, bitterness, gan, Xin, salty Five, also have cold sex. Similarly, drugs have their own sexual taste, which has different therapeutic effects. Therefore, before the use of drugs, should first understand the sexual taste of various medicinal herbs, and then to their own physique to choose medicinal treatment regimen, so as to make the real efficacy of medicinal herbs, to achieve the purpose of health care disease.
The so-called four-sex, also known as four-gas, refers tofour kinds of medicinal herbs of cold, cool, warm and hot。 In addition, there is a class of flat drugs outside the four, it refers to the cold biased, drug-resistant and slow effect of a class of drugs. Cold and warmth are the opposite two kinds of medicinal herbs, cold medicinal herbs have the effect of clearing heat and purging fire, diuretic catharsis, phlegm and resuscitation, apply to hot illness, such as high fever, red eyes, sore throat and so on; Warm herbs generally have warm dispelling, fill the fire to help Yang, the effect of temperature through the collaterals, suitable for cold diseases, such as the cold limbs, pale , abdominal cold pain and so on. In addition, the flat sex is yin, can strengthen the spleen appetizer, strong complement deficiency. such as Medlar, licorice, Gorgon, white fungus and other drugs.

Four-sex Example ~
Cold sex: belong to Yin.
function: Clearing heat, purging fire and relieving fever.
Medicinal Herbs: Coptis chinensis, Scutellaria baicalensis, honeysuckle, zhi-mu, etc.
cool sex: belong to Yin.
function: Reduce the heat, remove the trouble.
Medicinal Herbs Representative: American ginseng, Coix, mangosteen and so on.
temperature: belong to Yang.
function: Clear and dispel cold, Wenzhong complement false.
Medicinal Herbs Representative: JuJube, Angelica, Chuanxiong, Longan and so on.
Thermal: Belongs to Yang.
function: Dispel cold, warm through pain.
Medicine Representative: Cinnamon, attached son, Cannon Ginger and so on.

Five
The so-called five, refers to acid, bitter, gan, Xin, into five kinds of medicinal herbs taste, in addition to the less often mentioned ignorance. Five ignorant as the drug theory first appeared in the "Yellow Emperor Internal Sutra": "Medicine has acid, salty, gan, bitter, Xin." The production of five, the first is through the mouth taste, that is, the sensory organs of the human identification, it is the reaction of the real taste of drugs, but also a high degree of drug action. TCM has summed up the function of five as follows: "Acid collection, bitterness and hardness, gan BU, xin scattered, into a soft."
To achieve five harmony, a shade suitable. Second, pay attention to the combination of various flavors. Acid, bitter, gan, Xin, salty Assistant, compatible with the proper, then the diet has a variety of different characteristics. Third, when eating, taste can not be biased hypersplenism, partial Shantai, prone to injury and five zang, in health disadvantage.

Sour
function: Can converge solid astringent, health and Tianjin appetizer, stop sweat, long cough not more, the emission of sperm.
corresponding organs: liver.
representative Chinese medicinal Herbs: plum, lotus seed, Gorgon, five ignorant son, five times times son, Dogwood, hawthorn, jujube kernel.
Note: Not easy to eat, will damage bones, cold people should not take.

Bitterness
role: With heat and purging fire, detoxification, in addition to annoying, through the role of relieving bowel movements, treating cough, vomiting and so on.
corresponding organs: heart.
On behalf of Chinese herbal medicines: coptis, rhubarb, Scutellaria, radix paeoniae alba, almond, ginkgo, honeysuckle, fruit.
Note: More food easily lead to indigestion, dry mouth, constipation, cough: body heat is carefully.

Sweeteners
role: The Deficiency of pain relief, palliative medicine, harmonic spleen and stomach, for the weakness of healthy, a variety of physical pain.
corresponding Organs: issues.
On behalf of Chinese herbal medicine: Ginseng, jujube, licorice, yam, caramel, Coix, and cultivated.
Note: More food easy to gain weight, injury teeth, abdominal distension pain, diabetes and dental caries patients should eat less.

Flowery
role: Divergent cold, Line Qi blood, the treatment of wind chill, fever, headache stoop.
counterpart organs: lungs.
On behalf of Chinese herbal Medicine: ephedra, Cassia, Ginger, windproof, angelica, fine xin, coltsfoot flower, the semen.
Precautions : Yin-deficiency fire Wang bogey.

Salty
Flavor Effect: diarrhea, soft and strong, the treatment of stool dryness knot, tumors, tuberculosis and so on.
corresponding organ: kidney.
On behalf of Chinese herbal medicines: Glauber's salt, turtle armour, oyster, keel, grass-ming, corn whisker.
precautions: Eat more high blood pressure, so that the blood flow slowed down, cardiovascular disease and stroke patients avoid food.


Warp
What is the Sutra? In fact, people often hear "the hippocampus can fill the kidney, wolfberry can fill the liver," such as the saying, is the Chinese medicine said 2 of the medicine, that is, the hippocampus mainly to the kidney meridian, medlar mainly into the liver. In other words, "attribution" refers to the drug on the body of certain organs and meridians of the selective role, that each drug into the body of an viscera (or parts) of the lesion of its role is special, this particular is called "attribution." For example, insomnia and heart-related, Platycladi, jujube kernel can cure insomnia so the heart meridian, asthma is lung disease, almond, balloon can cure cough and asthma, so into the lung meridian, the rib pain, many because of liver qi stagnation, bupleurum, green husk can shu liver qi, so into the liver meridian and so on.
In the use of the theory of attribution, we must take into account the relationship between the viscera and meridians, because the Zang-fu meridians are interrelated in physiology, and also affect each other in pathology, so, in the use of drugs, often will not use only to a certain once the medicinal herbs, usually also added to other medicinal herbs. For example, the treatment of patients with lung disease and spleen deficiency, usually add some spleen-invigorating drugs, so that the lungs get nourishing and gradually recover.
The treatment of the drug is related to its role in the viscera, meridians, so mastering can help to quickly and accurately select the drug, that is, according to the external manifestations of the disease, probably diagnosed the organs and meridians of the disease, according to the selection of appropriate drugs for treatment and adjustment. If have heat syndrome, have lung heat, firelight, stomach fire, irascibility and so on different, the medication naturally also is different. If the lungs are hot and cough, when using mulberry white skin, bone skin and other lung by medicine to relieve the lungs and asthma, if the stomach fire toothache, when using plaster, coptis and other stomach by medicine to clear the good; if firelight hyperactivity, palpitation insomnia, when using cinnabar, Salvia miltiorrhiza centring by the medicinal herbs to pure soothe the nerves, if the liver hot day red, when using Prunella vulgaris, Gentian and other liver by medicine to clear the liver
Mastering the theory of normalization also helps to distinguish between drugs with similar efficacy. As a diuretic, and Ephedra's lung diuretic, astragalus jian spleen diuretic, attached to the sun water, Polyporus umbellatus of the bladder moisture and other differences. Therefore, in the familiar with the efficacy of drugs at the same time, the mastery of the drug in the identification of similar drugs is of great significance.
When using the theory of attribution to guide the clinical application of drugs, it must be combined with the theory of four gas five and ascending and descending ups and downs to achieve accurate and comprehensive. If the lung meridian of the drug, due to four of different qi, its therapeutic effect is different. such as perilla temperature scattered lungs through the cold, mint cool scattered lungs through the wind heat, dry Giang warm lung drink, scutellaria baicalensis cold clear lung diarrhea fire. The same as the lung meridian of the drug, due to the different five, the role is also different. such as dark plum acid collection, convergence lung cough, ephedrine to publish, Xuan Lung, shen-gan to fill virtual, supplementing lung Yiqi, tangerine Peel bitter below qi, cough and phlegm, Gekko gecko into tonifying kidney, benefit lung ping asthma.

The taste of Chinese herbs is normalized