Although oral ulcers are not a serious illness, they are quite annoying. Once it starts, you can't eat this or that, and the pain is so intense that even drinking water hurts.
Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that everything that exists inside must exist outside!
This oral ulcer is caused by accumulated heat in the body. Where is the heat? Heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys can all generate heat, but the most important ones are the heart and spleen. We can take a peek at the location of the oral ulcer. As the name suggests, oral ulcers occur in the mouth, mainly on the tongue and lips, with the heart opening on the tongue and the spleen opening on the mouth. Therefore, it is most closely related to the heart and spleen.
For example, many people develop ulcers in their mouths when they feel nervous or anxious, which is known as excessive internal heat; Or perhaps I have been staying up late and working overtime recently, coupled with eating hotpot and barbecue. These fatty and sweet foods are piled up in my stomach and intestines, which are not easy to digest. Over time, they can also turn into heat and fire.
There is heat in the heart and spleen, in other words, there is a lump of fire in the chest. According to the principle of fire being hot, this fire needs to go up to the mouth and stop. If the fire is trapped inside and wants to erupt, there must be an outlet. Therefore, oral ulcers erupt like a volcano, gushing out. From this perspective, oral ulcers can also be seen as a self rescue behavior of the body. There is heat in the body that cannot circulate, and it actively creates a way to release heat, allowing the heat to pass through.
A friend often suffers from oral ulcers, sometimes even growing more than ten at a time. There are ulcer surfaces on his lips, tongue, and cheeks, big like mung beans and small like sesame seeds. When eating, a little force can cause severe pain in his mouth. Therefore, every time he eats, he can only sit in his seat and watch others enjoy delicious food there, occasionally grinning and enduring unbearable pain.
Is there a medicine that can quickly resolve oral ulcers?
Of course there is, it is the traditional Chinese medicine Puhuang!
Pu Huang, according to ancient medical books, can eliminate swelling on the tongue surface. According to legend, during a spring outing to admire flowers, Emperor Duzong of the Southern Song Dynasty suddenly had a swollen tongue that night due to a momentary desire for pleasure. He was unable to speak or eat. The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were extremely anxious and quickly summoned imperial physicians to study and diagnose methods. At this moment, a royal physician surnamed Cai proposed to grind half of Puhuang and half of dried ginger into fine powder and apply it to the swollen area. Emperor Song Duzong followed his instructions and it really healed quickly.
The medicine Puhuang has a therapeutic effect on almost any type of oral ulcer caused by any cause.
So, what is the principle of using Puhuang to treat oral ulcers?
Originally, this Puhuang has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood, promoting blood circulation, stopping bleeding, and astringing and nourishing muscles. Oral ulcers, with a depression in the middle of the ulcer surface, resembling a bit of rotten meat, and some may even bleed due to the presence of heat and toxins; Looking at the area around the ulcer, it will still swell up. Swelling is due to poor blood circulation. According to traditional Chinese medicine, if there is no blood circulation, it will cause pain. That's why the pain is severe.
Pu Huang is the dried pollen of cattail. While Pu Huang may be unfamiliar to many, when it comes to cattail, many people have seen it and even reminisced about their childhood. The leaves of the cattail are slender, like green swords, standing straight on the water's surface. The most impressive thing is that it also carries a small brown thick stick.
Typha grows in water and has a cooling effect, so Typha can clear heat and cool blood. This is the first point, and the second point is that Puhuang can promote blood circulation and stop bleeding, which can eliminate the blood stasis and swelling around the ulcer surface. Puhuang has a very powerful effect in promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding, and treating oral ulcers is just a small use of it.
There is a famous formula in the field of traditional Chinese medicine called "Faxiao San". That is to say, after suffering from illness, a person's face is full of worries and no longer shows a smile. It can help you find the lost smile.
This prescription only has two ingredients, one is Wu Ling Zhi and the other is Pu Huang. The two medicinal herbs are powdered and stored in a jar. For various types of blood stasis pain, the pain is like a needle prick. Every time you take a small spoonful and mix it with some yellow wine, as soon as you drink it, your blood will flow and the pain will stop. Alternatively, if you don't add Five Spirit Lipids, using only Pu Huang can also have this effect.
Furthermore, Pu Huang has the effect of astringing and regenerating muscles, which can quickly help ulcerated muscles grow back.
Isn't the combination of the three in harmony with oral ulcers?
The usage method is also very simple. Take 30g of raw Pu Huang, add a little warm water to make a paste, rinse your mouth with it, or directly apply the raw Pu Huang to the ulcer surface. The sore will recover quickly.
Today, based on the patrol of meridians and acupoints, I will teach you a treatment method for acupoints.
The circulation chart of the Foot Jue Yin Liver Meridian is closely related to the oral cavity, because the Foot Jue Yin Liver Meridian enters our oral cavity and circulates on the inner side of the mouth, so it is easy to encounter such problems when we are under high emotional pressure.
The more nervous a person is, the more likely their liver qi is to be strong, and the stronger their liver fire, the more likely they are to develop mouth sores on the inside of their mouth. Here, we will teach you how to find the corresponding acupoints.
The problem of excessive liver meridian fire requires finding the corresponding Shaoyang meridian. The liver governs Jueyin, and the Shaoyang meridian in the hands is the Shaoyang Sanjiao meridian, with its starting point called "Guanchong acupoint".
Guanchong acupoint is also easy to find. It is located at the end of the ring finger, at the corner of the nail root on the side of the little finger, vertically downward on the side of the nail, where the nail is buried in the skin at the nail root, and at the angle perpendicular to the side intersection.
When oral ulcers occur, the method of needling can be used. Use a disposable blood collection pen or blood glucose pen to aim at the Guan Chong acupoint, puncture and eject it (just like measuring blood sugar), and then squeeze out two or three drops of blood to help improve the symptoms of oral ulcers.
If you don't have such a blood collection pen at home, you can also use your nails to pinch and press the hole directly with force.
Puncturing blood at Guan Chong acupoint or pinching nails is a method of diarrhea.
When the liver fire in the human body is relatively strong, the liver is responsible for regulating and releasing qi, resulting in poor qi flow and some symptoms of blood stasis and heat. Stimulating the Guan Chong acupoint is used to release heat.
This heat is basically a manifestation of poor ventilation and heat in the head and face.
Ulcers grow in different locations and have different pathologies. Ulcers grow on the tongue, so what meridians can reach our tongue?
There is a saying: The tongue is the seed of the heart. The Hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian is closely related to the tongue. When we are anxious, restless, dreamy, and have a strong heart fire, we are prone to developing mouth sores on our tongue. At this time, we should look for acupoints corresponding to the Hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian. In fact, the hand less yin heart meridian originates from the heart.
But the ancients believed that:
The heart is the emperor, the official of the monarch. If the emperor wants to give orders, he cannot do it himself. He must rely on the outer guard of the heart. There is a layer of envelope outside the heart called the heart envelope, and the pericardium plays the role of the heart's main mind and main blood.
So when treating heart problems, we often choose the acupoints on the pericardium meridian as our first choice.
The Hand Jueyin Pericardial Meridian originates from the chest, connects to the heart, and terminates at the end of our middle finger, which is called the Zhongchong acupoint.
Zhongchong acupoint is also very easy to pick, it is about 0.1 inches away from the edge of our nails, which is as wide as chive leaves. Applying a little force to Zhongchong acupoint will be very painful and sour.
Still use a disposable prick or blood glucose pen to puncture the acupoint and squeeze out two or three drops of blood.
If the color of the bleeding caused by thrusting into the acupoint is very bright red, the person is often in a state of anxiety, restlessness, and strong heart fire. At this time, the front part of the tongue, especially the tip of the tongue, is very red. If there is a mouth ulcer, it is often easy to grow in the area of the tip of the tongue.
To relieve heart fire, one can use the method of stabbing and stabbing blood, or they can use the method of pinching and pressing:
Pinch the Zhongchong acupoint firmly with your thumb nails for a longer period of time, and you can frequently pinch both the left and right Zhongchong acupoints.
If you prick the blood, you may see the effect on one side alone. If you pinch and press, you need to pinch and press the middle punch points of both fingers for a longer period of time. Zhongchong acupoint is a well located at the end of the Hand Jueyin Pericardial Meridian, which has the function of purging heart fire.
Everyone knows that looking at the coating on the tongue can determine the changes in various organs of the body. When mouth sores grow on the tongue, they are easily located in two areas, one at the tip of the tongue. This is a sign of intense internal heat, with symptoms of worry, restlessness, and excessive dreaming.
In addition, there are long mouth sores on the edges of both tongues. At this location, long mouth sores not only need to be pricked at the Zhongchong acupoint, but also at the Guanchong acupoint. The Guanchong acupoint reflects liver problems, with strong liver fire.