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81. Brucea Javanica
After chewing, it bursts like a pearl, with a sharp bitterness that quickly spreads, very intense, with a slight numbing sensation in the mouth.
When soaked in water, it smells like barley tea. The first sip also tastes like barley tea, then a bitterness similar to Coptis quickly emerges, slowly fading away. The aftertaste is barley tea plus a bitterness similar to Coptis—the bitterness of Brucea Javanica adapts, and from the third sip onwards, you almost can’t taste the bitterness, with the barley tea flavor becoming more pronounced.
Having worked in oncology for three years and prescribed countless boxes of Brucea Javanica capsules, seeing it again still feels very familiar.
It is a typical heat-clearing and detoxifying herb that clears inflammation and turbid toxins in the lungs, stomach, and liver, especially the liver. For conservative treatment of hepatitis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer, you can try using 30 grams of Brucea Javanica + 30 grams of Dianthus (Lysimachia) + 15 grams of Licorice.
82. Dianthus (Lysimachia)
The water brewed from it tastes mainly sour and sweet, with bitterness as a secondary note and a noticeable sweet aftertaste.
Dianthus nourishes the liver and can be used to treat elevated liver enzymes such as those in autoimmune hepatitis.
If you want to treat liver cancer, it pairs perfectly with Brucea Javanica: Brucea Javanica makes the initial attack to eliminate the invaders, and Dianthus soothes and stabilizes afterward.
Many doctors prefer using large formulas when treating tumors. Personally, I think in the early supporting phase, it’s indeed possible to treat the patient like treating an ordinary illness, step by step, with several large formulas containing 12-20 herbs to first nourish the Qi and blood of the five viscera and six bowels.
But in the late decisive phase, it is necessary to heavily use one or two “toxic herbs,” taking a light and direct approach, going straight to the lesion and clearing thoroughly.
It sounds easy, but when someone’s disease has progressed to “malignant tumors have become a trend,” it’s either due to accumulated external injuries causing severe stagnation and obstruction of meridians, or due to long-term wrong habits and mental exhaustion. Such patients have too much “downward potential energy” inside. Many times, doctors can only watch as they exhaust their last bit of energy and re-enter the cycle of life and death.
83. Sphenoclea Herbal Tea (Weilingcai)
A very pleasant tea drink, clear and mellow, with a slight minty coolness.
Half nourishing, half turbidity-removing. It hits the head within seconds, clears and benefits the head, enters the brain, mainly affecting the gallbladder meridian and bladder meridian areas.
The energy density is not large, so the dosage needs to be increased to 60 grams when used.
By now, everyone trying these herbs should be able to feel what the pulse diagnosis class mentioned about “herbs fighting each other.”
For example, just now, after drinking Dianthus, the liver felt fresh; but after drinking Sphenoclea, the liver quickly became uncomfortable, replaced by a cool sensation in the head.
So in practical prescription, generally these two herbs can only be chosen one or the other; otherwise, the patient’s “Qi” will be at a loss.
Students who haven’t attended the pulse diagnosis class may feel it’s strange— isn’t it a pulse diagnosis class? Why is it talking about herbs?
It is called a pulse diagnosis class, but as the lectures continue, the content expands significantly, ultimately roughly covering “Chinese Internal Medicine.”
Actually, it should be taught this way. The so-called “large formula pulse, small formula pulse,” formulas and pulses are originally inseparable.