Similar names of traditional Chinese medicine have different effects

In the large family of Chinese herbal medicine, there are many members with similar names The complicated names of Chinese herbal medicine alone contain infinite fun However, there is something unsatisfactory in the complexity It's similar to the name of the medicine, but its function is very different, so it's easy to be bought and misused Huanglian and huhuanglian: the former is the dry rhizome of Coptis chinensis, a Ranunculaceae plant It is a well-known bitter medicine It is cold in nature, can relieve fire, detoxify, clear away heat and dry dampness It can be used for heat disease, dysentery, hot and upset, damp and hot distention, enteritis vomiting, red eye swelling and pain, carbuncle and furuncle The latter is the dry rhizome of the Scrophulariaceae plant, huhuanglian, Tibet It tastes bitter and cold It can relieve the deficiency heat, eliminate the chancre heat and clear away the damp heat It is mostly used for the syndrome of yin deficiency, damp heat and diarrhea, liver heat and eye pain, carbuncle swelling and sore, hemorrhoid and chancre heat Although both of them are good medicine for clearing away heat, Huanglian is clear and hot, while huhuanglian is clear and hot It is quite different Bupleurum chinense and Bupleurum chinense: the former is bitter and pungent in taste and slightly cold in nature It has the effect of reconciling the exterior and the interior, dispersing the liver and opening the depression, and promoting the Yang and lifting the depression It is the main medicine of Shugan and reconciling prescriptions Bupleurum chinense is used for cold and heat exchange, chest and flank fullness, malaria, anorectal prolapse, uterine prolapse, irregular menstruation, liver heat and red eyes The latter is sweet and slightly cold, which is the agent of clearing deficiency heat, clearing chancre heat and cooling blood It is mainly used for yin deficiency fever, bone steaming hot, night sweat, infantile chancretion fever and so on There are also different sources of medicinal materials Bupleurum is the root of bupleurum, which belongs to Umbelliferae Bupleurum belongs to Caryophyllaceae Peach kernel and nutmeg kernel: the former is the dried and mature seed of peach in Rosaceae It tastes sweet and bitter, has the effect of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and moistening intestines It is mainly used for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, abdominal mass, bruise and constipation The latter is the dried and mature seed of walnut, which is sweet and warm, can warm the kidney and calm asthma, benefit the kidney and consolidate essence, and is mostly used for deficiency cold cough and asthma, aching waist and knees, impotence and spermatorrhea Ephedra and ephedra root: the former is the dry herbaceous stem of ephedra, middle ephedra or Equisetum, and the latter is its root The former is used for cold, cough, asthma, bronchitis, edema and other diseases The former is bitter and warm, while the latter is sweet and smooth It can astringent and stop sweating It is used for self perspiration, night perspiration and polyperspiration The two drugs are different parts of the same plant Their functions are different between sweating and antiperspiration, which should be paid more attention to Cuttlebone and cuttlebone: the former is the dried egg sheath of the mantis or the giant axe mantis, which is sweet and astringent, has a flat nature, and can benefit the kidney, solidify the essence, shrink the urine and stop taking It is commonly used in enuresis, frequency of urination, enuresis and leucorrhea The latter is the dry inner shell of cuttlefish without needle, commonly known as cuttlefish bone It tastes salty and slightly warm It has the effect of astringency, acid making and hemostasis It is mainly used for ulcers, excessive stomach acid, hematemesis, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, traumatic bleeding and other diseases Red peony and white peony: Red Peony tastes bitter and cold It has the effect of reducing fire and cooling blood, removing blood stasis and relieving pain It is mainly used for the vomiting of blood and amenorrhea caused by blood heat and liver fire White peony is bitter and cold It has the effect of nourishing blood and accumulating Yin, softening liver and relieving pain It is used for dizziness and irregular menstruation caused by liver blood deficiency and liver yang deficiency Cassia crenata and cassia crenata: both drugs have the effect of clearing liver heat, clearing eyes and removing the haze Shi Jueming can nourish the liver Yang while clearing the liver heat It has a better effect on the patients with liver deficiency and less blood and unclear vision Cassia is good at clearing and purging the liver and gall, strengthening the fire and brightening the eyes, so it is more commonly used for those who suffer from liver and gall stagnation and eye red swelling and pain Atractylodes macrocephala and Atractylodes macrocephala: both of them have the function of drying dampness and strengthening spleen Atractylodes is bitter and sweet, but it is more nourishing than dispersing Atractylodes macrocephala is good at dispersing rheumatism, drying dampness and strengthening spleen Floating wheat and wheat: both of them have the functions of benefiting qi, nourishing heart and removing heat The floating wheat is good at walking, and the effect of antiperspirant and antiperspirant is better Wheat is a good medicine for heart disease Zihe car and Caohe car: Zihe car, also known as placenta, is the placenta of healthy pregnant women It is sweet, salty and warm, and has the effect of Nourishing Qi, blood and essence Caohechu, also known as flea rest, is a lily plant with bitter and cold taste It has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, calming shock and relieving pain Gouji and Lycium barbarum: Gouji, also known as golden dog's ridge, is a fern of the clam shell family It is bitter, sweet and warm in nature It has the effects of nourishing liver, strengthening tendons and removing wind dampness Lycium barbarum, also known as wolfberry fruit, is a mature fruit of Solanaceae It has a sweet and flat nature, and has a good effect of nourishing liver and kidney, benefiting essence and eyesight Lobelia and Scutellaria barbata: lobelia, also known as jijiesuo, is a plant of platycodoniaceae It has a pungent and flat nature It has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, diuretic and detumescence Scutellaria barbata, also known as hanxincao, is an annual herb of Labiatae It has a slightly bitter and cool nature and has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, benefiting water and swelling In addition, there are some drug names that are easy to mix When you buy and take them, you need to distinguish them carefully to prevent misuse For example, ginseng, ginseng, Scrophularia, red ginseng, Salvia miltiorrhiza and Sophora flavescens; Coptis, polygonatum, phellodendron, Huangling and astragalus; Schisandra and gallnut; Fructus aurantii and Fructus aurantii; asparagus and Radix Ophiopogonis, etc.