The underground golden bull is the root or branch of the plant Houttuynia cordata, so it is also called Houttuynia cordata. It is mostly distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Hainan and other places in China, and it has the effects of dispelling wind, relieving pain, reducing swelling and detoxifying. Let's now understand the application of the underground golden bull in traditional Chinese medicine.
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1. Combined with Ephedra
It is used to treat wind-cold-damp arthralgia. Ephedra is pungent and bitter, and it enters the qi aspect. Its pungency opens up and its bitterness drains through the skin and hair. It is specialized in sweating and dispersing cold evils. The underground golden bull is pungent and warm, and it enters the heart meridian and blood aspect. Its pungency disperses and warms, penetrates and reaches the camp and guard, and has the power to open up the collaterals. When these two medicines are combined, they enter the camp and guard, one unblocks and the other penetrates, having the functions of dispelling wind, dispersing cold, opening up collaterals, and relieving pain.
2. Combined with Achyranthes Bidentata
It promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis. When there are falls, sprains, injuries to the meridians and arteries, and stagnant blood accumulation, resulting in poor circulation of the meridian qi, these two medicines can be used in combination. The underground golden bull disperses stagnation, warms and promotes the meridians, moves horizontally and runs wildly; Achyranthes Bidentata is bitter and flat, invigorates blood and removes blood stasis, strengthens tendons and bones, and has a good downward movement. They complement each other, harmonize the upper and lower, promote smooth flow of qi and blood, and promote blood circulation and relieve pain.
3. Combined with Spirodela Polyrhiza
It promotes lung ventilation, induces sweating, diuresis, and reduces swelling. If wind and water are the causes of the disease, the lungs lose their ability to promote ventilation, resulting in facial swelling and urinary obstruction. In this case, the lungs should be ventilated, sweating should be induced, water should be diuresed, and swelling should be reduced. Spirodela Polyrhiza is pungent and cold, light and floating, induces sweating and releases the surface; the underground golden bull is pungent and warm, and promotes and benefits lung qi. When these two medicines are combined, the cold and warm are balanced, the lungs are ventilated, sweating is induced, water is diuresed, and swelling is reduced, without the danger of excessive cold or heat.
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4. Combined with Coptis Chinensis
It harmonizes the stomach, reduces rebellious qi, promotes qi circulation, and relieves pain. If the spleen and stomach are not healthy, external evils can invade when the body is weak, resulting in a mixture of cold and heat, disturbance of ascending and descending, and confusion of clear and turbid. This can cause fullness and distention in the stomach area, nausea and vomiting of warm qi, bowel rumbling and diarrhea, thin yellow coating on the tongue, and rapid and stringy pulse. When these two medicines are combined, the pungency opens up and the bitterness reduces, cold and heat are used together, evil is expelled and righteousness is restored, and the fullness and distention are naturally relieved.
5. Combined with Gypsum
It is used for external wind-cold and heat evils, or internal stomach heat, which can cause gum swelling and toothache. Gypsum is cold and sinks; the underground golden bull disperses wind. When these two medicines are combined, they dispel wind evils, reduce internal fire, clear heat internally and externally, reduce swelling, and relieve pain.
6. Combined with Saposhnikovia Divaricata
It dispels wind more effectively than dampness, promotes blood circulation, and relieves pain. If wind, cold, and dampness evils obstruct the meridians and collaterals, resulting in poor circulation of qi and blood and joint swelling and pain, these two medicines can be used together. They dispel wind internally, release the surface, remove blood stasis, and promote blood circulation. Treating wind is also treating blood, and removing dampness promotes the unobstructed collaterals and relieves pain.
7. Combined with Paeonia lactiflora
If there is a liver and spleen imbalance, qi stagnation and disharmony, abdominal pain, heavy diarrhea, it is necessary to regulate the liver and spleen. The underground golden bull promotes qi circulation and eliminates stagnation, soothes the liver and relieves depression; Paeonia lactiflora harmonizes and stops pain, calms the liver and relieves urgency. They are used together to resolve liver stagnation, invigorate the spleen, relieve pain, and stop diarrhea.
