What are the side effects of the traditional Chinese medicine Anemarrhena?

The medicinal value of the traditional Chinese medicine Anemarrhena asphodeloides is relatively high, and it can also help us treat lung heat cough, or yin deficiency and dry cough, but we need to pay attention to its possible side effects, especially for people with kidney deficiency or weak pulse.

1. Although Zhimu has the effect of treating lung heat , cough or Yin deficiency and dry cough, medical books also say: "It can nourish kidney water, purge rootless fire evil, eliminate edema, and is a diuretic adjuvant. It can relieve the pain below the navel in the initial stage of diarrhea.

It can cure long-term malaria with severe fever. It can also treat cough caused by bone steaming, fatigue fever, and virtual fire drying up the lungs, or cough caused by phlegm in the lungs. This is the original medicine of the foot Shaoyin meridian, but it also enters the foot Yangming meridian and the hand Taiyin meridian. It should not be used if the kidney qi is exhausted, there is no fire symptom and the pulse on the radial side is weak.

Second, "This means that Zhimu is a cold and moist herb. Even though it has a laxative effect, it is not suitable for patients with spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness. It will not relieve constipation but cause diarrhea. Therefore, patients with loose stools should not take it. Not only that, any patient with cold cough in the lungs, weak kidney qi, weak radial pulse and no fire syndrome will increase the side effects after taking it, which will hurt the body more.

3. In addition, "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" said: "If the external symptoms have not been eliminated, diarrhea, dysentery and dryness and thirst are not allowed to take it." This means that if people with spleen and stomach deficiency and heat take Zhimu, they will have diarrhea and a decreased appetite, which will make the patient even weaker. Therefore, patients with spleen and stomach deficiency need to follow the following points when taking Anemarrhena:

1. Understand the therapeutic effects of Anemarrhena asphodeloides and the contraindications of taking it;

2. Patients who use Zhimu to clear away heat and purge fire, nourish yin and moisten dryness should use the herb raw, while patients who use it to reduce kidney fire should use it after frying it in salt water;

3. Do not use iron utensils to boil or place the medicinal materials;

4. For patients with fever and fever who have constant sweating, thirst, and a strong pulse, they can take it together with gypsum and introduce licorice to reduce internal heat;

5. Patients with persistent cough can take it together with Fritillaria and Lemongrass;

6. For patients with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, it can be taken together with Huangbai to relieve kidney fire.