You really should know about the "holy medicine for sores"

The world is wonderful. Ordinary flowers and plants are actually good medicines for curing diseases. What I want to talk to you about today is a good medicine for clearing away heat and detoxifying - Forsythia suspensa, a very beautiful plant. In clinical practice, Forsythia suspensa is a good medicine for clearing away heat and detoxifying, and is known as the "holy medicine for sores". It has a wide range of clinical applications and plays an important role in the treatment of various inflammations such as colds, influenza, skin diseases, food accumulation, pneumonia, nephritis, etc.

Forsythia, also known as golden bar, yellow flower bar, etc., is the dried fruit of the Forsythia suspensa plant of the Oleaceae family. It is mainly produced in Northeast my country, North China, the Yangtze River Basin to Yunnan.

Forsythia has a beautiful tree shape and vigorous growth. It blooms before the leaves in early spring, and the flowering period is long and the flowers are abundant. When in full bloom, the branches are full of golden color and the fragrance is overflowing, which is pleasing to the eye. It is an excellent flowering shrub in early spring and can be made into flower hedges, flower bushes, flower beds, etc. It is widely used in greening and beautifying cities. It is a rare and excellent tree species for sightseeing agriculture and modern gardens. Seoul, the capital of South Korea, has designated it as its city flower.

The fruits are harvested in autumn when they are still green, steamed and dried, and are commonly known as "Qingqiao". Known as the "holy medicine for sores", it is the best medicine for clearing away heat, detoxifying, reducing swelling and dispersing nodules! When ripe, it is harvested and dried, and is called "Laoqiao". Its seeds are called "Forsythia Heart". Forsythia suspensa is bitter and cold in nature, and mainly enters the heart meridian. It can not only clear heart fire and relieve sore toxins, but also dissipate carbuncle and swelling, so it is known as the "holy medicine for sores". It has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, dispersing nodules and reducing swelling. It is mainly used to treat the initial stage of fever, wind-heat cold, fever, irritability, pneumonia, acute nephritis, etc.

Regarding the clinical application of Forsythia suspensa, I highly recommend Zhang Xichun, a great medical expert from the Republic of China period. He also had a profound understanding of Forsythia suspensa. He summarized Forsythia suspensa as an "essential medicine" for treating three types of diseases, and divided its clinical application into five major categories.

His book "Medical Records of Combining Chinese and Western Medicine" describes it as follows: Forsythia suspensa has a light and slightly bitter taste and is cool in nature. It has the power to rise, float and disperse, circulate qi and blood, and treat blood stasis and qi accumulation in the twelve meridians. It is an important medicine for treating sores; it can penetrate the surface and relieve muscles, clear away heat and expel wind, and is also an important medicine for treating wind-heat; and it can expel toxins, and is also an important medicine for relieving rashes. Because it is cool in nature and rises, it is also good at treating diseases of the head and eyes; because it has a light taste and can promote urination, it is also good at treating stranguria.

Application in skin surgery

Common dermatological diseases include eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis, folliculitis, herpes zoster, erysipelas, etc. As stated in "Huangdi Neijing": All pains, itches and sores belong to the heart. Most skin diseases are febrile diseases and require clearing away heat and detoxifying. Forsythia suspensa can not only clear away heat and detoxify, but also enter the heart meridian and clear away heart fire. Therefore, it is often used in combination with Gardenia jasminoides, Taraxacum mongolicum, Oldenlandia diffusa and Gypsum to treat such skin diseases, especially some carbuncles, cysts and nodules. Adding Forsythia suspensa has a good effect of dispersing nodules and reducing swelling!

Application in influenza and wind-heat cold

The ingredients of Yinqiao Powder are honeysuckle, forsythia, loquat leaves, schizonepeta spicate, light black beans, mint, burdock, platycodon, and licorice.

Among them, Forsythia suspensa plays an important role as the main drug in Yinqiao Powder. Yinqiao Powder is a famous prescription for treating mid-stage febrile diseases created by Wu Jutong of the Febrile Disease School. Clinically, it has been proven that Yinqiao Powder has a good anti-influenza effect. Yinqiao Powder is also a representative prescription of relieving exterior syndrome with pungent and cool properties, and is particularly suitable for treating wind-heat colds. In fact, the clinical application of Forsythia is not limited to influenza, colds and other diseases, it has a good therapeutic effect on the entire pulmonary respiratory system, such as chronic bronchitis, pneumonia and so on.

Application in eruptive diseases

Rash diseases are also commonly seen in dermatology and pediatrics. For example, the commonly used prescription for treating urticaria is Ma Huang Lian Qian Chi Xiao Dou Tang. There is some controversy about Lian Qian. Most people believe that it is the root of Forsythia suspensa. Many doctors directly use Lian Qian instead of Lian Qian. As long as the diagnosis is accurate, it can also have good results. In the treatment of other rash diseases, such as rubella, chickenpox, hand, foot and mouth disease, measles, etc., Forsythia suspensa has a very good effect of heat-clearing and detoxifying!

Application in the treatment of head and facial diseases

Head and facial diseases, such as headache, eye pain, toothache, sinusitis, otitis media, etc., which are all related to heat syndrome and have obvious inflammatory reactions such as redness, swelling, heat and pain, can be treated with Forsythia suspensa to take advantage of its lifting power!

Treating urinary system diseases

Urinary tract infection is a common disease, which is more common in women. To treat this kind of disease, we must not only clear away heat, detoxify and promote diuresis, but also prevent it from being too bitter and cold. In clinical practice, I often use Forsythia suspensa in combination with Polygonum multiflorum, Lophatherum gracile, Plantago asiatica, etc. to treat urinary tract infections, and most urinary tract infections can be cured. Forsythia not only clears away heat and detoxifies, but also acts as a diuretic, killing two birds with one stone! In addition, Forsythia suspensa is also commonly used to treat nephritis!