Why is it said that nourishing the heart is nourishing life? Because the human heart is the official of the sovereign, ruling over the four veins and controlling all the organs of the body. "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" says that "if the master is unknown, then the twelve officials are in danger". When something goes wrong with the king, it means the fall of the dynasty and the decay of the body. Therefore, to nourish the heart is to nourish life.
There is a famous prescription in Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", which is a prescription that every Chinese medicine practitioner must learn. Western medicine talks about palpitations, chest tightness, premature beats, atrial fibrillation, irregular heartbeat and other problems, it can be regulated.
It's boiled licorice soup
Licorice (boiled), ginger, cinnamon sticks, ginseng, rehmannia root, ejiao, maimendong, hemp seeds, jujube.
The original text of "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" records: the pulse is knotted, the heart is palpitating, and the licorice soup is the master.
So what is pulse knotting and palpitations?
To put it simply, the heart beats abnormally, beating and gurgling. Sometimes I jump two or three times and stop once, and sometimes I jump six or seven times and stop once.
In ancient times, our Chinese medicine did not have words such as chest tightness, premature beats, atrial fibrillation, and irregular heartbeat.
But one thing is clear, in order for the heart to function, there must be two foundations: heart blood and heart qi.
If a person has palpitations, palpitations, chest tightness, or even precordial pain, Chinese medicine believes that it is an abnormal operation of heart qi and blood.
Zhang Zhongjing, the first step, use Ejiao, go to the heart, and make up for the painstaking efforts.
In the second step, when the heart is deficient in blood and the heart yin is insufficient, it is easy to generate a void fire, and use raw wheat winter to supplement the yin to contain the heart fire.
In the third step, the spleen and stomach are the source of qi and blood biochemistry, and if you want to replenish your heart and blood, you must replenish the deficiency from the source. That is, to nourish the spleen and stomach.
Ginger, jujube, and boiled licorice restore the normal movement of the spleen and stomach, transport food, and turn it into a subtle substance, which is infused to the heart.
Fourth, the heart is like a gas pump, and in order for it to function properly, it must be driven by yang energy. Guizhi strengthens the heart yang, and the stronger the heart yang, the stronger the power of the heart main bloodline.
This prescription is used to treat arrhythmia and other problems, which is the consensus of the Chinese medicine community. For the symptoms of insufficient heart blood and yang energy.
The main manifestations are: Palpitation, chest tightness, arrhythmias, weakness and shortness of breath, dry and thin tongue.
However, although the prescription is good, there are also people who are not suitable for it, and problems such as diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure should be used with caution and should not be used for a long time.