Can Astragalus and Cassia Seed be taken together?

Astragalus has a mild nature, but it has a good therapeutic effect on lung function and regulating the spleen and stomach. Although Cassia seed tastes slightly bitter, it can nourish the liver and kidneys and regulate intestinal function. In addition to these common Chinese medicines, there are many other Chinese herbal medicines that can be used to match and combine, which have a good effect on the body. So whether Astragalus and Cassia seed can be soaked in water together to drink is an issue worthy of people's attention.

Wolfberry: sweet in taste, neutral in nature, slightly cold, enters the liver and kidney meridians.

Astragalus: sweet in taste, warm in nature. Return to the lung and spleen meridians

Honeysuckle: sweet in nature, cold in taste. Enters the lung, heart, and stomach meridians

Cassia seed: tastes slightly bitter and sweet, neutral in nature, slightly cool; enters the liver, kidney, and large intestine meridians.

Drink warm drinks together, not cold drinks together. Either drink Astragalus and Cassia seed together; or drink wolfberry and honeysuckle together.

[Nature and flavor and meridians] Slightly warm in nature, sweet in taste. It enters the spleen meridian and lung meridian.

[Effects and functions] Tonify Qi and consolidate the exterior, promote diuresis, expel toxins and pus, and promote tissue regeneration. It is a Qi-tonifying medicine, which is a subcategory of tonic medicine.

[Clinical application] The dosage is 9 to 30 grams. It is used to treat shortness of breath, palpitations, fatigue, collapse, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, edema due to physical weakness, chronic nephritis, long-term diarrhea, rectal prolapse, uterine prolapse, carbuncle that is difficult to ulcerate, sores that do not heal for a long time, childhood bronchial asthma, chronic hepatitis B, chronic nephritis and viral myocarditis. It is best to use it roasted to replenish qi, while it is best to use it raw to stop sweating, promote diuresis, expel toxins, discharge pus and promote tissue regeneration.

[Pharmacological Research] It promotes nucleic acid metabolism, enhances hematopoietic function, improves myocardial function and fights myocardial infarction; it has antioxidant, antiviral, anticancer effects, improves renal function and renal tissue pathological changes, etc. The decoction has the effects of regulating immunity, anti-aging and anti-stress. Toxicity: LDso of decoction is (40±5) g/kg.

[Chemical composition] It mainly contains astragaloside I, astragaloside, isoflavone glucoside, isoflavone, isoastragaloside I, isoastragaloside II, triterpenoid saponins, flavonoids and polysaccharides.

[Contraindications] It is forbidden to take this medicine if the patient has excessive exterior evil, dampness blocking qi stagnation, gastrointestinal stagnation, yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity, or if the patient is in the early stage of carbuncle or has excessive heat and toxicity after ulceration.

[Prescription] ① Treat spontaneous sweating due to deficiency of the exterior: 30 grams of Saposhnikovia divaricata, 60 grams each of Astragalus membranaceus (roasted with honey) and Atractylodes macrocephala. Take 9 grams each time, add 1.5 hours of water, add a jujube, boil until 70% done, remove the residue, and take it hot after meals: ("Yi Fang Lei Ju" quoted "Jiu Yuan Fang" Yu Ping Feng San)

②For treating qi deficiency and yang weakness, constant sweating, and limb fatigue: Astragalus (remove the stem and roast with honey) and Aconitum (blasted, remove the skin and navel) in equal parts. Take 12 grams each time, add two cups of water and ginger slices, boil until 80% done, remove the residue, and drink warm before meals at any time. (Qifu Decoction from Yan's Jisheng Prescription)

③Treatment of vomiting blood: 7.5 grams of Astragalus and 15 grams of Purple-backed Duckweed. For the end. Take 3 grams each time, with ginger and honey water. (The Record of the Holy Spirit)

④Treat intestinal wind and bloody diarrhea: Astragalus and Coptis chinensis in equal parts. Grind into powder and make into balls as big as mung beans. Take 30 pills each time, with rice water. (Family Heirloom)

⑤To treat hematuria, sand stranguria and unbearable pain: take equal parts of Astragalus and ginseng. Grind it into powder. Take a large radish, cut it into four or five slices about the thickness of a finger, add 60 grams of honey, roast it until cooked but not burnt, and grind it into powder. Eat at any time and take with salt soup. (Yongleiqianfang)