What is the difference between rhubarb and coptis chinensis?

Some people who don't know much about these two traditional Chinese medicinal herbs will confuse rhubarb and coptis chinensis. After all, the names of these two herbs are relatively similar, but the difference between these two herbs is very large. Not only do they look different, but their effects are also very different. Let me introduce to you the differences between these two herbs, rhubarb and coptis chinensis. So, what is the difference between rhubarb and coptis root?

First, what is the difference between rhubarb and coptis chinensis? Rhubarb is bitter and cold. It enters the spleen, stomach, large intestine, liver and heart meridians. Function and effect: Clearing away heat and relieving constipation: Suitable for constipation, gastrointestinal heat stagnation, high fever and delirium, abdominal pain and constipation, often combined with Glauber's salt. For internal accumulation of cold, abdominal distension and stabbing pain, and constipation, it is treated with aconite. Dysentery caused by damp heat, tenesmus, bloody stool, use Coptis chinensis. Cooling blood and detoxifying: Mainly used to treat heat and toxicity. .Excess heat in the blood forces blood to flow abnormally, causing vomiting and nosebleed. .Swelling of throat, red eyes, toothache and sores caused by real fire and heat toxins. .Intestinal abscess and abdominal pain are often treated with drugs that cool blood, disperse blood stasis and reduce swelling. , Breaking blood and removing blood stasis: It can treat amenorrhea caused by blood stasis, accumulation of masses, and swelling caused by trauma. In addition, it can be used for damp-heat jaundice, damp-heat stranguria, and can be used externally to treat burns caused by water or fire.

Second, Coptis chinensis is bitter and cold. It enters the heart, liver and stomach meridians. Functions and effects: Clearing heart fire: used for irritability, insomnia, high fever, coma and delirium caused by hyperactivity of heart fire, often combined with gardenia, etc. Clearing heat and drying dampness: used for diarrhea caused by damp heat, often combined with costus root (Xianglian Pills), or used alone. For those with fever, use Pueraria root and Scutellaria baicalensis. For vomiting due to stomach heat, it is combined with magnetite; for acid reflux and heartburn, it is combined with Evodia rutaecarpa. , Antipyretic and anti-toxic: used for carbuncle, furuncle, mouth sores, red and swollen eyes, often with honeysuckle, dandelion, etc.

What is the difference between rhubarb and coptis chinensis? Raw coptis chinensis is good at clearing away epidemic toxins, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing away heat and dampness, and killing insect poisons. It is effective for high fever, irritability, delirium, and coma caused by febrile evil entering the heart meridian, or vomiting blood, epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematuria, and bloody stool caused by excessive heat forcing blood to flow, hot stranguria, hematuria, diarrhea, dysentery, vulvar swelling and pain, hemorrhoidal swelling and pain, and bleeding, as well as ascariasis, whooping cough, scabies, and tinea corporis. It is often used in combination with rhubarb, scutellaria, buffalo horn, raw rehmannia, borneol, peony bark, red peony root, white grass root, agrimony, and chicory. Stir-fried Coptis chinensis is good at drying dampness and clearing heat. It has good effects on chest tightness and abdominal distension caused by damp-heat blocking the middle of the body, jaundice caused by damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder, carbuncles and ulcers caused by damp-heat infiltrating the skin, jaundice caused by furuncles, eczema, and skin ulcers caused by burns or water. It is often used in combination with Atractylodes lancea, Phellodendron chinense, Cyathula capitata, Coix seed, Capillaris ternata, Gentiana scabra, Centella asiatica, and Sophora flavescens.