When I was young, my father once told me: To be a good doctor, one must have a bright eye. At that time, I didn't understand his meaning.
Later, as I grew older, I realized that what my father meant by 'light' was kindness, humanity, and conscience.
In recent years of clinical practice, I have often attended internal exchange meetings of traditional Chinese medicine, not only to broaden my horizons and improve my medical skills, but also to learn from the purity and morality of the older generation of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners.
So far, the most impressive exchange meeting for me was five years ago when the organizers asked every attending doctor to prepare a treatment prescription and finally selected the top three.
At that time, someone held the diabetes prescription, someone held the pulmonary nodule prescription, and someone held the cirrhosis prescription. They were all serious diseases. I was the only one holding the pouch prescription.
Someone joked with me: Your eye bag prescription only has two ingredients, and I don't think you can even touch the threshold for the top three.
However, in the end, this eye bag formula with only two ingredients won first place.
In fact, for doctors, illness is not big or small. As long as it is a patient's matter, it is a big deal. As long as the prescription is good, even if it is to remove eye bags, it can break through the encirclement and compete with the world's heroes!
Speaking of eye bags, at the beginning of this year, I met an eye bag patient who said that his eye bags had been around for 6 years. He had been to a beauty salon and a hospital, tried many methods, but couldn't go. After temporarily removing them, they grew even more severe. Finally, he came to me through a friend's introduction.
After carefully examining the situation, I wrote down the winning recipe: Xiao Shen Jin Cao, Bai Mustard Seed.
The patient looked at only two medicines and asked me with some suspicion, 'Doctor, are you not mistaken?'? I came all the way here, will you prescribe two medicines for me?
I told her that traditional Chinese medicine is not about having too many drugs or expensive drugs. If the symptoms are right, even a single medicine can cure the disease. If the symptoms are not right, taking 2 pounds of medicine every day is useless.
What was the result? The patient used it for less than half a month and her eye bags were almost half as small as before. I asked her to continue using it, but after a month, her eye bags disappeared and she looked much younger.
Over the years, I have treated many patients with eye bags in clinical practice and found that they all have one thing in common, which is that they have a lot of phlegm, dampness, and garbage in their bodies.
In fact, from another perspective, eye bags are essentially the same as cysts, nodules, hyperplasia, and lipomas, all of which are things that the body should not have.
So in this formula, Xiaoshenjincao is responsible for removing all pus, flesh, phlegm, and edema. Its ability is very strong, it can drill into bone crevices, just like a high-pressure water gun rushing into the ground, and it can clean it thoroughly.
White mustard seeds are even more remarkable. They have been praised by medical practitioners throughout history as' stubborn phlegm that can be searched ', meaning that even the most stubborn phlegm dampness can be scraped away.
Of course, this is just a basic formula. Clinically, it can be adjusted according to the situation. People with Qi deficiency can add Huangqi, those with congestion can add Taoren Honghua, and Bai Zhu and Yi Yi Ren can also strengthen the spleen.
Let me give you a more comprehensive recipe for reference: 15-20 Atractylodes macrocephala, 10-15 Coix seed, 15-20 Poria cocos, 5-10 Platycodon grandiflorus, 15 Herba Polygonatum sibiricum, 10 Mustard seeds (note: dosage varies from person to person).
Teacher Ni Haixia said: The key to treating eye bags is to strengthen the spleen and dispel phlegm.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the essence of the five organs and six viscera is mainly injected into the eyes, while the spleen and stomach are responsible for the eye area and eyelids. Therefore, when our temperament is insufficient and the essence and qi cannot be injected into the eyes, and the spleen and stomach are weakened and lost in circulation, our eyes and eye area will change, become sluggish, and droop.
So, in this formula: Atractylodes macrocephala+Poria cocos: Elevate temperament, reduce turbidity and yin. With each rise and fall, the wheels of the spleen and stomach rotate
Stretching Grass+White Mustard Seed: Stretching Grass can remove all pus, flesh, phlegm, and swelling inside the body. White Mustard Seed is known as the "stubborn phlegm that can be searched". Even the most stubborn phlegm dampness, it will make one feel intimidated
Coix seed+Platycodon grandiflorus: Coix seed can clear heat and dampness, relieve pus and reduce swelling, and can also strengthen the spleen. Platycodon grandiflorus can lead medicine upwards and better remove eye bags
Traditional Chinese medicine is very flexible in treating diseases. Unlike Western medicine, where all patients take the same medicine and have different symptoms, the medicine is the same. Anyone with a little medical knowledge knows that this cannot cure the disease.
In recent years of clinical practice, I have keenly felt that the vast majority of people do not believe in traditional Chinese medicine. Therefore, I insist on publishing articles during the intervals of treating diseases. This is not to encourage people to seek treatment from traditional Chinese medicine, but to provide patients with an additional choice and way out when treating diseases.