What are the cooling Chinese medicines?

Drinking Chinese medicine is a very dependent way of treating diseases for people. Although many diseases are stubborn, they can be greatly improved through the conditioning of Chinese medicine. However, Chinese medicine is also divided into categories, some are cool and some are hot, and you need to prescribe the right medicine according to your condition, but what are the cool Chinese medicines? Different drugs treat different types of diseases. Cooling medicines such as rhubarb and coptis chinensis are very effective in detoxification.

Cork

It is the dried bark of the yellow bark tree of the Rutaceae family. It is commonly known as "Sichuan Huangbai". After peeling the bark, remove the rough skin and dry it in the sun. It is mainly produced in Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, Yunnan and other places. This product is bitter and cold and can damage the stomach. People with weak spleen and stomach should not use it.

rhubarb

The traditional Chinese medicine rhubarb has the effects of attacking stagnation, clearing dampness and heat, purging fire, cooling blood, removing blood stasis, and detoxifying. It has a special smell and tastes bitter and slightly astringent. It is mainly produced in Tongren, Tongde and other places in Qinghai.

Coptis chinensis

Aliases: Weilian, Chuanlian, Jizhaolian, a perennial herb belonging to the Ranunculaceae and Coptis genus, with leaf bases that are hesitant, hard and papery, ovate-triangular, three-partite, with the central lobe ovate-rhombus-shaped, deeply pinnate-lobed, with sharp serrations on the edges, and the lateral lobes unequally deeply lobed; the petiole is 5-12cm long. It grows wild or cultivated in cool, moist, shady and dense forests in valleys at an altitude of 1000-1900m. It has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, purging fire and detoxifying. It tastes extremely bitter. There is a saying that goes "A dumb person eating Coptis chinensis cannot express the bitterness", which describes its taste.

Scutellaria baicalensis

The root of Scutellaria baicalensis is used as medicine. It tastes bitter and is cold in nature. It has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, purging fire and detoxifying, stopping bleeding, and calming the fetus. It is mainly used to treat febrile diseases, upper respiratory tract infections, lung heat cough, damp-heat jaundice, pneumonia, dysentery, hemoptysis, red eyes, fetal movement disorder, hypertension, carbuncles, furuncles, etc. The clinical antibacterial activity of Scutellaria baicalensis is better than that of Coptis chinensis and it does not produce drug resistance.

honeysuckle

Honeysuckle is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It enters the lung, heart, and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, anti-inflammatory, tonifying deficiency and treating wind. It is mainly used to treat bloating and lower body diseases, fever due to febrile diseases, heat and toxic carbuncles, and tumors. It has certain therapeutic effects on dizziness, dry mouth, sweating, depression, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, measles, pneumonia, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, acute mastitis, sepsis, appendicitis, skin infections, carbuncles, erysipelas, mumps, and purulent tonsillitis.

Anemarrhena

It is mainly used to treat fever, thirst, lung heat and dry cough, bone steaming and hot flashes, internal heat and thirst, and intestinal dryness and constipation. This product is cold and moist in nature, and has a laxative effect, so it is not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach and loose stools.

Cold Water Stone

Used for fever, thirst, erysipelas and burns. Used together with gypsum, talc, etc., it can be used for patients with febrile diseases with evil in the qi, high fever and thirst. People with weak spleen and stomach should take it with caution.