It is best to crush Schisandra chinensis before decocting, and its efficacy is more obvious. As Pu Fuzhou, a famous old Chinese medicine practitioner, said: "Anyone who uses Schisandra chinensis will be mashed, and all the five flavors are there." You can take a proper amount and put it in boiling water for brewing.

The fruit of Schisandra chinensis has five flavors and five elements, which can balance the five internal organs-heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney.

Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis is sweet in taste and warm in nature, and has the effects of tonifying kidney, calming the heart, invigorating qi, promoting fluid production, consolidating exterior surface and stopping sweating. It is often used for symptoms such as deficiency of lung and kidney, asthma, thirst due to internal heat, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, palpitation and insomnia, dreaminess and amnesia.

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Side effects: Oral administration of crude drug 13 ~ 18g can cause hiccups, acid regurgitation, stomach burning, intestinal purring, drowsiness, and occasional allergic reactions.

Toxic reactions include: fever, headache, fatigue, dry mouth, feeling strange, nausea, vomiting, urticaria and so on. Oral administration of Schisandra chinensis ether extract to healthy people is equivalent to taking crude drug 13 ~ 18g, which may cause hiccups, acid regurgitation, heartburn, intestinal growling and drowsiness. Toxic reactions include: fever, headache, fatigue, dry mouth, feeling strange, nausea, vomiting, urticaria and so on.

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