In the eyes of Chinese medicine practitioners, “oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar” are all medicines!

Oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar can be used as medicine, and it is also the first aid medicine. However, most people only know to seek medical treatment, ignoring food self-healing, lack of knowledge in this regard. Zhang Zhongjing once lamented that “it is difficult to know how to use water and fire, and the people use it every day without knowing it”, so he wrote “Five Flavors of Food Treatment”, but unfortunately it has been lost.

However, the experience in food therapy has been scattered in the herbological works of the past generations. Not only has it survived for a long time, but it has also gained from generation to generation. Today, in order to draw people’s attention to this, we would like to introduce the role of oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar in treating acute diseases.

First. The role of oil for emergency and medicinal use

1. When a child has paroxysmal abdominal pain, stool closure, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms due to intestinal obstruction caused by roundworms, a small cup of raw vegetable oil or sesame oil (about 60-200 ml, served by a young person, served by a young person) should be used urgently for internal consumption, which can make the roundworms in a mass disperse and stop the pain. If the pain does not recur or if you can defecate after taking it, you can beat the worms, so that the big disease can become small and the small disease can be solved. This disease is often seen in rural areas, so rural doctors must be especially aware of this method, this method for adhesions, fecal block intestinal obstruction also has a certain effect.

2.enema laxative, according to the “Medical Zhengzhuan” records: “Yu Tuan’s nephew stool closed for 25 days, the anus even large intestine can not win its pain, screaming outside the four neighbors, the doctors have used soap horn powder and honey decoction guide method, and take the size of Cheng Qi Tang and hedgehog and guide the stagnation pill, the preparation of urgent pill are ineffective, the plan has nothing to do, and then a small bamboo brief inserted into the anus, with oil blowing into the anus, after a while, that is, the next black feces After a short while, black feces was dropped, and he slept peacefully.”

3.treatment of obstructed labor, according to the “birth instructions”: “all fetal leakage obstructed labor, because the blood is dry, taking other drugs is not beneficial, it is appropriate to clear oil half two, good honey one or two, decoction with dozens of boiling. Take it warm, so as to help the blood energy efficiency.” According to the Materia Medica Jing Shu, “After childbirth, if the clothes do not go down, you can also take sesame oil to make it go down.”

The “Materia Medica Shuxuan” said: raw sesame oil is used to treat “the heat of the day, the intestinal heat. Down the three jiao heat poison gas, through the large and small intestine, treating round heart pain, maternal uterine clothing does not fall, detoxification of food poison insect poison sores poison”, and can “detoxify arsenic poison. In the “famous doctor’s book”, “Compendium of Materia Medica” and other famous herbal works, there are similar records, on the above, fragrant oil is really considered a taste of the first aid medicine that is always available at home.

Second. The emergency effects and medicinal uses of salt

1.Cover shallow evil, easy to act, so see vomiting; evil deep, yin and yang, the airway is blocked, so this evidence. If not treated quickly, many lead to violent death. It is advisable to use salt soup first to explore and vomit.” The method is a spoonful of salt, fried into a light salt soup to drink, after drinking feathers can be used to explore the throat to help vomit.

2.cure headache like broken, “elbow after the formula” says: “the chest and diaphragm in the phlegm sympathetic gas caused by the upward rush of severe headache, to salt soup spit out the disease.” Food poisoning, accidental ingestion of pesticides and other emergencies, can be used salt soup to explore the vomit and wash the stomach, Li Shizhen said salt has detoxifying effect.

3.for the treatment of deficiency after seeing cold extremities, unconsciousness and other symptoms of Yang, or the occurrence of abdominal tightness and pain, cold sweat and panting and other symptoms of Yang deficiency, the “Square Pulse Zhengzong” said: “Use salt fried hot, iron the point of Qihai under the umbilicus to give first aid. If ironed in the umbilicus, it can also cure strokes of urination.”

4.psychotic attacks, laughing more than, “Confucianism”: with “salt into two blocks, fire so that through the red, put cold research fine, with a large bowl of river water, the same decoction to three or five boiling, put warm, drink in three times, to hairpin tan throat to help vomiting.”

Salt has a variety of effects such as gushing vomiting, detoxification, clearing fire, cooling blood, fixing pain, stopping itching, activating blood, eliminating phlegm, etc. Therefore, the “Compendium of Materia Medica” says: “Salt is the master of all diseases, all diseases are not used. But in terms of emergency, it is largely as above.

Third, Soy sauce’s life-saving and medicinal uses

1.To treat unbearable pain in the fingers and hands, use soybean paste and honey. Warming and coating. (Thousand Gold Formula)

2.for the treatment of 100 drugs, 100 insects, 100 animals poison damage people, take the sauce in the bean paste (washed in water to remove the sauce) a pounding, white soup mix, and then take the bean paste pounded on the injury. (The square pulse authentic)

3.taking light powder mouth broken, to three years old sauce into water, frequent. (The Compendium of Materia Medica)

4.For the treatment of pyrotechnic poisoning in strokes, take a piece of soybean paste and mix it with a bowl of warm soup and pour it on. (Materia Medica Huiyin)

There are many kinds of sauce, Tao Hongjing said: “When the medicine should be bean paste, aged for a long time is good.” Although wheat paste is also used in medicine, Monk Monk believes that “wheat paste is not as powerful as bean paste in killing medicine.” Although the medicinal use of sauce is also very wide (such as pregnancy blood, pregnancy blood in urine, scalding fire injuries, scrofula, etc., or internal or external use, can be treated), but its role, mainly detoxification and remove heat.

According to Li Shizhen, “the sage shall not eat the sauce”, “and also take it to kill the poison of the diet hundred medicines”. The “Classic of Materia Medica” disagrees with the statement that sauce kills the poison of 100 medicines, but also believes that: in addition to removing heat, stopping annoyance and fullness and treating hot fire injury poison, there are “can kill all the fish, meat, vegetables, mushroom poison” role. Therefore, people in China with the habit of cooking vegetables with sauce, is very hygienic. It is a pity that not many people know about its medicinal value.

Fourth, vinegar’s rescue effect and medicinal use

1. Cure postpartum blood fainting.

It is used to quench the vinegar repeatedly with red iron, and smoked the patient’s nose (according to the “food recipe of Suixiju”). The Materia Medica Derivative says: “It is good to have vinegar in the maternity room, because vinegar benefits the blood.” The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the actual product.

The two statements above, although there are differences in the understanding of the mechanism, but both affirm the fact that vinegar can deal with postpartum blood faintness to make Su. Postpartum deficiency of righteousness and weak resistance, such as using the above method, so that the room when the vinegar gas, for the prevention of influenza, epidemic meningitis and other diseases, also has a very good effect.

2. If the roundworm penetrates the bile and has severe colic, and the pain cannot be relieved by pain relief injection or acupuncture, take 30-80ml of vinegar (with the age and size of the quantification, and drink it after the water is lightened), the roundworm will get the acid and vanish, and when the pain stops, the roundworm can be expelled.

3. If you are poisoned by arsenic, poisoned by eating chicken seeds and cholera vomiting (referring to food poisoning, acute gastroenteritis and other types of cholera, not real cholera), drink vinegar in appropriate amount urgently. (Compendium of Materia Medica) Huang Gong Rust, Zou Shu and other herbalists believe that vinegar has the effect of “killing all fish and vegetable poison”. Adding vinegar to cold dishes can prevent dysentery and other intestinal diseases. Putting vinegar in dishes can help digestion in addition to detoxification.

4. sores in the throat or lock throat wind stuffy swelling can be used to grind vinegar wild buckwheat root, with feathers frequently coated throat, with the sputum and saliva spit out, the throat closed that can open. Can also take an egg to remove the yolk, into the vinegar and half a summer, a slight boil on the fire, go to the Ze, a little bit of swallowing.

Vinegar has various effects such as dispersing blood stasis, stopping bleeding, detoxifying, killing insects, etc. It is widely used in medicine, so Tao Hongjing said: “vinegar wine (i.e. vinegar) is used for everything”.

The above introduction is only an example, other things such as blowing vinegar into the nose to save the emergency of violent death, rice vinegar mixed with sugar drink to solve the poison of aconite and grass aconite, etc. are all scattered in the herbology book, recent people treat jaundice of hepatitis, night sweat of tuberculosis and lime burns, canker sores and poison, also often use vinegar, so vinegar is not only an important medicine for emergency, but also a common medicine for treating diseases.

Chinese medicine has a lot of experience in treating emergency diseases, and using common food such as oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar to treat emergency diseases is one of the major features of Chinese medicine, and the treatment of emergency diseases can not be delayed, and if there is a slight delay in rescue, it is often unpredictable, and in a hurry, the drugs are not available, and it takes some time to ask doctors and send hospitals, so it is necessary to discover and promote the knowledge of using common food to treat emergency diseases, such as the role of oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar in first aid treatment, which can be used from If the role of oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar in first aid treatment can be changed from “people use it every day but do not know” to a household name, it can really help to protect people’s health.

Fivth, the treatment of disease and health talk medicine wine

Medicinal wine is a common dosage form in pharmaceuticals. Because wine can be used for medicine, not only can some wine be added to the soup to cure diseases (such as Zhang Zhongjing’s Guahu Allium white wine soup), but also, various drugs can be dipped into the wine to make medicinal wine. Medicinal wines can be broadly divided into two categories: disease prevention and treatment and tonic strength. The former, the more famous ones such as.

Tusu wine, which is said to be a formula of Hua Tuo. Tu Su is an alias of Sarsaparilla, a plant of the lily family, and Tu Su wine is mainly based on Tu Su, hence the name. The preparation and serving method is, sarsaparilla five money, cinnamon heart seven and a half money, wind one or two, Shu pepper, orris, rhubarb five money seven points each, two and a half money, adzuki beans fourteen, held in a purple cloth bag, New Year’s Eve night hanging well bottom, New Year’s Eve morning out, put in the wine frying several boiling, young and old, young and old, everyone drink a sip, congratulations on the New Year, to prevent disease. This is a traditional custom with national characteristics in many regions of China during the Spring Festival.

The two lines of Su Dongpo’s poem, “But the poor and worried, long and healthy, do not resist the last drink Tu Su,” reflect the good wishes of people to drink Tu Su wine for the purpose of disease prevention and health care. The dregs of the Tu Su wine are thrown into the well, which is a traditional method of disinfecting drinking water and has an epidemic prevention effect.

There are many medicinal wines like this for disease prevention and treatment, such as bruises and injuries medicinal wine, wind pain medicinal wine, blood healing wine, etc. Folk once popular tiger stick dipping wine, etc., also belong to this category. Because this type of wine is mainly used to prevent and control diseases, it is generally not advisable to drink it indiscriminately, or not to drink much. The latter, the more famous ones, such as: ten whole tonic wine: this is taken from the ten whole tonic soup infusion wine of the “prescription bureau”.

It consists of ginseng, atractylodes, poria, roasted grass, astragalus, dioscorea, angelica, white peony, chuanxiong, cinnamon, etc. The decoction is made up of ginger and jujube, but the ginger and jujube are generally not used in the wine. It can treat all deficiencies, five strains and seven injuries and post-illness weakness.

Ginseng wine: The formula of “The Compendium of Materia Medica” is originally made of ginseng powder, with currant and rice brew. Nowadays, ginseng is usually dipped directly into white wine and can be consumed after seven days. The amount of wine can be determined by the amount of wine of the drinker. If less wine is put in, it can be dipped again after drinking. Ginseng has a good effect of nourishing the middle and benefiting the qi, so it is most suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, indigestion, shortness of breath and other deficient qi.

Nourishing and strengthening medicinal wine is mainly made by taking some herbal infusions with tonic effects, due to the simple preparation, easy storage, easy to take, the application is very wide, and there are many types, such as dipping wolfberry for wolfberry wine, dipping angelica for angelica wine.

This wine can be used for a drug alone, but also several drug formulations dipping system, such as dipping ginseng, cinnamon, etc. that is, ginseng wine, dipping Shuji, angelica, etc. that is, for the return of the wine. In addition, deer antler, Cordyceps, He Shou Wu, Lingzhi, mulberry and other herbs, can be dipped in pharmaceutical wine.

Drinking this wine has two points to pay attention to, one is a small amount of wine, to thick dip, if not thick dip and more drinking, drinking, failing to see the benefits of medicine, but have the disadvantage of hurting wine; one is the formula to be reasonable, the choice to be appropriate, because of the weakness of the body, there is a yin deficiency, Yang deficiency, gas deficiency, blood deficiency of different, blood deficiency to cinnamon wine, angelica wine, such as appropriate, gas deficiency to ginseng wine, astragalus wine, such as appropriate.

If Yin deficiency and drink deer antler wine, Yang deficiency and drink Shuji wine, are not suitable. Therefore, miscellaneous take several flavors of dipping wine, and not discretionary selection. Often do not achieve the purpose of nourishing and strengthening.

China’s application of medicinal wine has a very long history, “Huangdi Neijing” thirteen parties, there are three is the wine agent. Wine itself is a medicine, with other drugs, the indications are naturally more extensive. We should learn from the experience of our predecessors in the use of medicinal wine, according to the different components of medicinal wine, according to the individual physical condition, reasonable selection, so that medicinal wine to give full play to the role of healing and health.