What are the side effects of Astragalus on the kidneys?

The traditional Chinese medicine Astragalus can be used to treat many kinds of men's diseases, but it should not be consumed in excess. After all, all medicine is toxic and it will definitely cause some side effects to your body, especially to your kidneys. So you must pay attention to it. In addition, it may also cause some symptoms of dampness and heat, which should not be taken lightly.

1. First of all, according to the seasons of the year, most ordinary people cannot eat astragalus in spring. Because everything grows in spring, it is the season of growth and development, and the human body needs to be promoted. Eating astragalus is not very suitable.

Secondly, from the perspective of physical health, it is usually not advisable to eat Astragalus during a cold or menstruation. Again, in terms of physical constitution, Astragalus is suitable for people with weak qi and damp spleen. People with this kind of physical constitution are often bloated, and their abdominal and whole body muscles are relatively soft. So, it is not suitable for some people with thin bodies to eat it.

2. For patients with kidney disease caused by yin deficiency, dampness, heat, and heat toxicity, the use of Astragalus will generally cause toxic side effects and should be prohibited. Because Astragalus is sweet and slightly warm in nature, taking it will cause heat in patients with Yin deficiency, which can easily damage Yin and cause bleeding; while taking it will easily cause evil to stagnate in patients with damp heat and excessive heat toxicity, making their condition worse.

3. Symptoms of Yin deficiency: hot palms and soles, dry mouth and throat, back pain, hot flashes and night sweats, insomnia and nightmares, red tongue without coating, and thin and rapid pulse.

4. Symptoms of damp-heat: bitter taste in the mouth, dry mouth, yellow and greasy tongue coating, etc. Symptoms of severe heat toxicity: various purulent infections, such as acne infection, pharyngeal infection, peritonitis, etc., manifested as flushed face, red throat, dry throat, sore throat, bitter and dry mouth, red lips and tongue, yellow and dry tongue coating, slippery and rapid pulse, etc.

5. When patients with Yin deficiency use Astragalus, it must be used in combination with Yin-nourishing medicines, such as Raw Rehmannia, Cooked Rehmannia, Scrophularia, Ophiopogon, Asparagus, Polygonatum, etc. Patients with damp-heat must be treated with drugs that clear damp-heat, such as Coptis chinensis, Artemisia capillaris, Scutellaria baicalensis, etc. Patients with severe heat and toxicity must be treated with heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs, such as Coptis chinensis, Gardenia jasminoides, Rhubarb, and Patrinia salsa.

1. Enhance immune function

Astragalus can enhance the phagocytic function of the reticuloendothelial system, significantly increase the number of white blood cells and multinuclear leukocytes, and significantly increase the phagocytic percentage and phagocytic index of macrophages, and has a promoting effect on both humoral immunity and cellular immunity. After normal people take it, plasma IgM and IgE increase significantly, and the whole herb has the best effect. Astragalus can promote the formation of serum hemolysin, enhance the hemolytic ability of plaque-forming cells, and has obvious carbon particle clearance effect and the effect of increasing spleen weight.