Terms of prescription science. It is the basic principle of prescription compatibility. "Su Wen. On Balance: "The main illness is the monarch, the auxiliary monarch is the minister, and the minister should make it." "You have a minister and two ministers, and the system is small. You, two ministers, three assistants and five assistants are also in the system. The monarch, the minister, the three assistants and the system are also big. "
According to their functions in the prescription, the drugs that make up the prescription can be divided into monarch, minister, adjuvant and envoy, which are called monarch, minister, assistant and envoy.
Jun is a drug that plays a major therapeutic role in the prescription of main symptoms. Minister refers to the drugs that assist the monarch to treat the main syndrome or treat the main syndrome at the same time. Adjuvant drugs refer to drugs that cooperate with monarch and minister drugs to treat two syndromes, or inhibit the toxicity of monarch and minister drugs, or play an anti-adjuvant role.
Refers to drugs that direct drugs to the focus or reconcile drugs. Take Mahuang decoction in treating exterior syndrome of typhoid as an example. Mahuang decoction is the monarch drug, cassia twig is the minister drug, almond is the adjuvant drug, and licorice is the adjuvant drug.
On one hand, monarch drugs are essential, and minister, assistant and envoy drugs can be configured or deleted as appropriate.
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A prescription is a combination of several kinds and dozens of medicinal materials, which embodies the spirit of treating diseases. Then it must not be that a few drugs with similar effects are piled up casually, regardless of weight; However, according to the requirements of the rule of law, there is a master and a second, and there is a proprietary combination. This is a good prescription. The primary and secondary here, Chinese medicine is vivid, that is, monarch, minister and assistant.