CN103919871B - A kind of Chinese medicine composition treating gout - Google Patents

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CN103919871B
CN103919871B CN201410107063.7A CN201410107063A CN103919871B CN 103919871 B CN103919871 B CN 103919871B CN 201410107063 A CN201410107063 A CN 201410107063A CN 103919871 B CN103919871 B CN 103919871B
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The present invention relates to technical field of Chinese medicines, it is an object of the invention to according to the traditional Chinese medical science understanding mechanism to gout, a kind of Chinese medicine composition treating gout is provided, it is to be formed by the raw material Chinese medicine composition of following weight: 10 parts of Radix Paeoniae Rubra of 56 parts of Radix Angelicae Sinensis of 68 parts of Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii Preparatas of 10 12 parts of Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei of 10 12 parts of Radix Achyranthis Bidentataes of 8 12 parts of Radix Clematidis of 8 10 portions of Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae of 8 12 parts of Radix Saposhnikoviaes of Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, 10 12 parts of Scolopendras of 12 parts of Rhizoma Cibotii 1, the traditional Chinese medicine composite that the present invention provides is easy to get, good effect, have no side effect, take through hundreds of remaining example patient with gout, reach more than 92% through having added up effective percentage.

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A kind of Chinese medicine composition treating gout
Technical field
The present invention relates to technical field of Chinese medicines, specifically refer to a kind of Chinese medicine composition treating gout.
Background technology
Gout is that urate crystal deposits the pathological changes caused, and can involve foot, the most often involve Metatarsophalangeal joint, cause urgency Property inflammatory reaction synovitis.
Gout is that purine metabolic disturbance causes uric acid to synthesize the metabolic disease increased and cause.During renal dysfunction due to The uric acid clearance decline of kidney also can cause uric acid level to rise.Uric acid in blood plasma reaches saturated, causes monosodium urate to be tied Crystalline substance is deposited on around distal joint relative in the tissue lacking blood vessel.The appearance of this crystallization may result in simple joint or multi-joint Acute inflammation synovitis.Gout is the most common in male, and big toe is modal affected area, 50%~70% first attack Betide this.The patient with gout of 90% can occur Metatarsophalangeal joint to get involved in its certain period in life.Other may be got involved Foot area have dorsal portion, heel and ankle.In addition to involving joint, uric acid crystal can also be deposited on subcutaneous, quilt It is referred to as tophus.
Acute gout arthritis should use rest, lifting affected limb, wear hard sole footwear, dew toe postoperative footwear to alleviate disease Shape.Drug therapy includes heavy dose of NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug) or colchicine.When there is chronic gout tuberosity, can be to there being symptom Position row cleaning or deposit are removed.
Severe joint caused by gout and pseudogout destroys, and treatment is with Metatarsophalangeal joint degenerative osteoarthritis Or thumb is stiff.
General joint debridement art, implanted arthroplasty and arthrodesis be all process in, severe destruction of joint Rationally select.
But the most faster treatment gout is to have problem to be solved.
Summary of the invention
It is an object of the invention to according to the traditional Chinese medical science understanding mechanism to gout one disease, it is provided that a kind of Chinese drug-treated group treating gout Compound, can improve and cure gout symptom the most very well.
The technical solution used in the present invention is: a kind of Chinese medicine composition treating gout, and it is by following weight Raw material Chinese medicine composition form: Radix Angelicae Pubescentis 8-12 part, Radix Saposhnikoviae 8-10 part, Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae 8-12 part, Radix Clematidis 10-12 part, Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae 10-12 Part, Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei 6-8 part, Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii Preparata 5-6 part, Radix Angelicae Sinensis 10 parts, Radix Paeoniae Rubra 12 parts, Rhizoma Cibotii 10-12 part, Scolopendra 1.
A kind of Chinese medicine composition treating gout, it is to be formed by the raw material Chinese medicine composition of following preferential weight: Radix Angelicae Pubescentis 10 parts, Radix Saposhnikoviae 9 parts, Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae 10 parts, Radix Clematidis 11 parts, Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae 11 parts, Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei 7 parts, Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii Preparata 5 parts, Radix Angelicae Sinensis 10 parts, red Chinese herbaceous peony 12 parts, Rhizoma Cibotii 11 parts, Scolopendra 1.
The instructions of taking of Chinese medicine composition provided by the present invention is: mixed by the raw material Chinese medicine of above-mentioned weight After, according to the method for traditional fried Chinese medicine, every pair takes its medicine juice 100ml, sooner or later takes for twice, within 7th, is a course for the treatment of.
Each raw material Chinese medicine in above-mentioned Chinese medicine composition is the most on the books in Chinese medicine voluminous dictionary.
Radix Angelicae Pubescentis has another name called Zhu Gaer, Fa Luohai, white Rhizoma Et Radix Notopterygii, Heracleum millefolium Diels, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae (Radix Heraclei Scabridi), disturbs Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, medical material Ji Yuan: plant for Umbelliferae The root of the white bright Radix Angelicae Pubescentis of thing, acrid in the mouth;Bitter;Warm in nature, cure mainly scattered wind cough-relieving;Removing damp and stopping pain.
Radix Saposhnikoviae, is the name of a kind of medicinal herbs, belongs to perennial herb, high 30-80cm, and root is sturdy, and elongated cylindrical has branch, Yellowish laurel color, root ramps up, the most isometric with stem, has thin rib, main product in Heilungkiang, Sichuan, the ground such as Inner Mongol, Gui Jing: wing Guang warp;Lung meridian;Spleen channel;Liver Channel, effect: expelling pathogenic wind from the body surface, removing dampness to relieve pain, spasmolytic, antipruritic, cure mainly: affection of exogenous wind-cold;Headache general pain; Rheumatic arthralgia;Joint is ached;Stomachache is had loose bowels;Discharging fresh blood stool;Tetanus;Rubella pruritus;Skin infection is from the beginning of, nature and flavor: acrid in the mouth;Sweet;Property Tepor.
Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae: acrid in the mouth, hardship, property is put down.Return stomach, liver, gallbladder meridian, there is the function of wind-damp dispelling, clearing away damp-heat, stopping numbness pain.
Radix Clematidis belongs to medicinal plants, and its rhizome is used as medicine, and has expelling wind and removing dampness, effect of removing obstruction in the collateral to relieve pain.For rheumatism numbness Bitterly, numb limbs and tense tendons, muscle arteries and veins contracture, joint stuffiness, bone is choked with sobs the diseases such as larynx.In modern clinic is put into practice, its new purposes is continuous It is found, such as treatment cholelithiasis, calcanean spur, talalgia, the esophageal carcinoma etc., but it is noted that deficiency of qi and blood and pregnant in medication The careful clothes of woman.Medical material Ji Yuan source is more, and the contained Radix Clematidis such as " Kaibao Bencao ", " Bencao Tujing ", herbal for Relief of Famines, for Radix Scrophulariae Section plant;The Radix Clematidis that " the southern regions of the Yunnan Province book on Chinese herbal medicine " is contained, is feverfew, and use now mostly be " China's book on Chinese herbal medicine " contained Ranunculaceae Plant Radix Clematidis, Clematis hexapetala etc..
Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae is the plant of Amaranthaceae Achyranthes, is grown on height above sea level 200 meters to 1, and the area of 750 meters is frequently grown hillside woods Under, cure mainly: soreness of waist and knee joint;Flaccidity and weakness of the lower limbs;Amenorrhea due to stagnation of blood;Gout;Puerperal abdominal pain due to blood stasis;Lump in the abdomen;Retention of placenta;Pyretic stranguria;Stranguria with blood; Traumatic injury;Carbuncle malignant boil;Laryngopharynx swelling and pain.
Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei is being collectively referred to as of the perennial plant of multiple Polygonaceae Rheum, is also the title of Chinese crude drug, in CHINESE REGION In document, the todaiwo,rhizoma often that " Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei " refers to, Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei is the pathogenic fire purging medicine that the traditional Chinese medical science is conventional, modern medicine effect to Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei Carry out pharmacological research with effect, and analyzed Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei and have pathogenic fire purging relieving constipation at the application of aspect of curing the disease, the primary efficacy of Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei Deng, it is mainly used to lowering blood pressure and blood fat etc., in China, Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei is mainly made medicinal, but in Europe and the Middle East, their Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei is past Toward the Rheum kind referring to that other several works are edible, stem is red.Gas delicate fragrance, bitter in the mouth and micro-puckery, that chews sticks to one's teeth, and has sand feeling, the autumn End the stem and leaf withered or secondary spring excavates before germinateing, and removes radicula, scrapes off crust, valve cutting or section, and rope is worn bunchiness and is dried or convection drying.
Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii Preparata, this product drafts a document the Preparation process product of crow, and " Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii Preparata " be exactly the Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii through concocting, though toxicity not life Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii is big, when choosing more it is noted that do not obscure mutually with Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii, nature and flavor: pungent, bitter, and heat;Poisonous, GUIXIN, liver,kidney,spleen warp, dispel Wind dehumidifies, antalgic.
It is public that Scolopendra makees again Wu, also known as Scolopendra, centipede worm, maggot, Gekko Swinhonis, is a kind of venomous, terrestrial of grazing eclipse Arthropod, Compendium of Material Medica says: " Scolopendra, southwest has it everywhere, and the spring goes out hibernation, successively has a foot, double must qi tails." usual health The longest, and have many to step, amplification on Canon of Materia Medica claims: " Scolopendra backlight blackish green, pure gold, Huang under abdomen " Scolopendra and Serpentis, scorpion, wall Tiger, Bufo siccus also claim " five poisonous creatures: scorpion, viper, centipede, house lizard, toad ", and it is the first to occupy the five poisonous creatures: scorpion, viper, centipede, house lizard, toad, and pharmaceutical practice (1) relieves internal heat anticancer, for the long-pending poison of carcinoma: (2) endogenous wind stopping solution Convulsion, for wind disease convulsion pain: (3) are moved back inflammation and controlled skin ulcer, for the swollen skin infection of inflammation: (4) Scolopendra is steep in wine and can control traumatic injury, causes the stasis of blood for traumatic injury Blood does not breaks, swells and ache, and wipes it with Scolopendra wine, can quickly subside a swelling, pain relieving, skin infection and innominate toxic swelling is also had good result simultaneously.
Radix Angelicae Sinensis, call dry return, horse hair Radix Angelicae Sinensis, the Qin which, horse hair is returned, cloud is returned, western Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Min Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Angelicae Sinensis body, Contain Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Angelicae Gigatis herbaceos perennial, at distribution in China in Gansu, Yunnan, Sichuan, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Hunan, Hubei, expensive The ground such as state, all there is cultivation various places, and the root of Radix Angelicae Sinensis can be used as medicine, and are one of the most frequently used Chinese medicine.
Radix Paeoniae Rubra has another name called mountain Radix Paeoniae, Paeonia obovata Maxim., and this product is ranunculaceae plant Radix Paeoniae or the dry root of river Radix Paeoniae Rubra, spring, Qiu Erji Excavating, remove rhizome, fibrous root and silt, dry, nature and flavor are bitter, are slightly cold.Returning Liver Channel, function clearing away heat and cooling blood, eliminating stasis to stop pain, for temperature Poison sends out speckle, hematemesis and epistaxis, conjunctival congestion and swelling pain, hypochondriac pain due to stagnation of liverQI, amenorrhea dysmenorrhea, lump in the abdomen stomachache, injury from falling down, carbuncle skin infection.
Rhizoma Cibotii, is the medicine for rheumatism in Chinese medicine, the dry rhizome of Dicksoniaceae plant Rhizoma Cibotii, main product in Fujian, four The ground such as river, Yunnan, Guangxi.The whole year all can gather, to gather most preferably to winter in the fall, bitter, sweet, temperature, returns liver, kidney channel, dispels the wind Wet, invigorating the liver and kidney, strong waist knee joint.
The pharmacology of the present invention is thought: gout one disease, each raw material herbal medicine efficacy in Chinese medicine composition provided by the present invention Play altogether, expelling wind and dampness, removing obstruction in the collateral to relieve pain, gout one disease is had good curative effect.
The present invention has no side effect, good drug efficacy, and gout symptom can be allowed to be completely eliminated, and uric acid can be allowed to drop to normally Value.
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Below in conjunction with embodiment, the present invention is described in further details, but is not limitation of the present invention.
Embodiment 1: a kind of Chinese medicine composition treating gout, it is to be formed by the raw material Chinese medicine composition of following weight: solely Live 8g Radix Saposhnikoviae 8g Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae 8g Radix Clematidis 10g Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae 10g Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei 6g Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii Preparata 5g Radix Angelicae Sinensis 10g Radix Paeoniae Rubra 12g Rhizoma Cibotii 10g Scolopendra 1.
Embodiment 2 one kinds treats the Chinese medicine composition of gout, and it is to be formed by the raw material Chinese medicine composition of following weight: Radix Angelicae Pubescentis 12g Radix Saposhnikoviae 10g Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae 12g Radix Clematidis 12g Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae 12g Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei 8g Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii Preparata 6g Radix Angelicae Sinensis 10g Radix Paeoniae Rubra 12g Rhizoma Cibotii 12g Scolopendra 1.
Embodiment 3 one kinds treats the Chinese medicine composition of gout, and it is to be formed by the raw material Chinese medicine composition of following weight: Radix Angelicae Pubescentis 10g Radix Saposhnikoviae 9g Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae 10g Radix Clematidis 11g Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae 11g Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei 7g Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii Preparata 5g Radix Angelicae Sinensis 10g Radix Paeoniae Rubra 12g Rhizoma Cibotii 11g Scolopendra 1.
Embodiment 4: the effect of the present invention is described in further details below in conjunction with case.
Case 1 Zhu, man, 41 years old, front right of taking medicine knee joint red and swollen heat pain, uric acid raised 629, and during walking, right knee joint closes Joint pain is more very;After taking medicine of the present invention, every day one is secondary, and after serveing on 15 pairs, the right gonalgia substantially alleviates, and uric acid is reduced to Behind 482, then 15 pairs of taking medicine, check uric acid is reduced to normally, and gout symptom is completely eliminated.
Case 25 so-and-so, man, 39 years old, front right of taking medicine ankle joint red and swollen heat pain, walking more very, uric acid raise 479;Clothes are originally After invention medicine, every day one is secondary, and after serveing on 20 pairs, uric acid check reduces to 380, reduces to normal range, and gout symptom is wholly absent.
Case 3 Lu so-and-so, man, 35 years old, front left of taking medicine ankle joint red and swollen heat pain, uric acid raise 517, left knee joint during walking Pain is more very;After taking medicine of the present invention, every day one is secondary, and after serveing on 25 pairs, the left gonalgia substantially alleviates, and uric acid reduces to 327, Gout symptom is completely eliminated.
Case 4 Qin, man, 32 years old, front right of taking medicine knee joint red and swollen heat pain, uric acid raised 453, right knee joint pain during walking Pain is more very;After taking medicine of the present invention, every day one is secondary, and after serveing on 15 pairs, the right gonalgia substantially alleviates, and uric acid is reduced to normally 320, gout symptom is completely eliminated.
Case 5 Lee so-and-so, man, 48 years old, double knee joint pain before taking medicine, uric acid raise 491, during walking, pain is more very;Clothes After medicine of the present invention, every day one is secondary, and after serveing on 20 pairs, uric acid reduces to normal 373, and check uric acid is reduced to normally, and gout symptom is complete Full elimination.

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1. the Chinese medicine composition treating gout, it is characterised in that be to be formed by the raw material Chinese medicine composition of following weight: Radix Angelicae Pubescentis 8g, Radix Saposhnikoviae 8g, Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae 8g, Radix Clematidis 10g, Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae 10g, Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei 6g, Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii Preparata 5g, Radix Angelicae Sinensis 10g, Radix Paeoniae Rubra 12g, Rhizoma Cibotii 10g, Scolopendra 1.
2. the Chinese medicine composition treating gout, it is characterised in that be to be formed by the raw material Chinese medicine composition of following weight: Radix Angelicae Pubescentis 12g, Radix Saposhnikoviae 10g, Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae 12g, Radix Clematidis 12g, Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae 12g, Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei 8g, Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii Preparata 6g, Radix Angelicae Sinensis 10g, Radix Paeoniae Rubra 12g, Rhizoma Cibotii 12g, Scolopendra 1.
3. the Chinese medicine composition treating gout, it is characterised in that be to be formed by the raw material Chinese medicine composition of following weight: Radix Angelicae Pubescentis 10g, Radix Saposhnikoviae 9g, Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae 10g, Radix Clematidis 11g, Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae 11g, Radix Et Rhizoma Rhei 7g, Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii Preparata 5g, Radix Angelicae Sinensis 10g, Radix Paeoniae Rubra 12g, Rhizoma Cibotii 11g, Scolopendra 1.
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