Analysis of the connotation of the pungent flavor effect of warming interior medicine
FENG Xiuzhi1 WU Jilei2 REN Yanling1
1.College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Liaoning Province, Shenyang 110847, China;
2.the First Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Chinese Medicine, Liaoning Province, Shenyang 110032, China
Abstract:Among the five flavors of traditional Chinese medicine, the pungent flavor has the most close relationship with the main effect of warming interior medicine. The pungent flavor has the function characteristics of activating and dispelling, which is consistent with the warmth of warming interior medicine. It plays the role of warming interior for dispelling cold, warming and assisting yangqi, warming meridian and warming womb and channels and relieving pain. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine property, combined with the records of related contents in previous dynasties of materia medica monographs, as well as the results of modern traditional Chinese medicine pharmacology research and clinical practice of traditional Chinese physician, the role connotation studies of the function of the pungent flavor in the warming interior medicine is mainly manifested in the aspects of warming interior for dispelling cold, promoting blood circulation for removing blood stasis, warming middle for activating qi-flowing, warming womb and channels and relieving pain, warming and assisting yangqi and and the power of promoting medicine. The pungent flavor of warming interior medicine has a specific material basis, the related pharmacological action is mainly for anti-ulcer, regulating gastrointestinal movement resistance, anti-diarrhea, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, enhancing body heat production, dilating blood vessels, strengthening heart, increasing cardiac output, promoting glucose and lipid metabolism, inhibiting platelet aggregation, prolonging prothrombin time, anti-thrombosis, improving myocardial ischemia and so on.