1, people with yin deficiency
People with yin deficiency often have hand, foot and heart fever,
Dry mouth and throat, hot flashes and night sweats, red tongue without coating, hot flashes and night sweats, thready pulse, and soreness of waist and knees. Astragalus membranaceus is warm and sweet. Eating it will help people with yin deficiency, and it is easy to hurt yin and move blood, which is not good for health. If patients with yin deficiency must use Astragalus membranaceus, it is best to use it with herbs that nourish yin, such as Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Radix Ophiopogonis, Radix Asparagi and Radix Scrophulariae.
2. Hot and humid people
Dampness and heat can easily lead to bitter mouth and yellow and greasy tongue coating. In this case, if you take Astragalus membranaceus, it will easily lead to stagnation of pathogenic factors, leading to aggravation of the disease. If you must eat Astragalus membranaceus, you must use drugs for clearing away heat and dampness, such as Coptidis Rhizoma, Huang Cen and Herba Artemisiae Scopariae.
3. People with colds
You can't eat astragalus with a cold. Eating astragalus can help the body resist the invasion of foreign pathogens. However, if the body has already felt the foreign evil, and then eat Astragalus membranaceus, it will leave the disease in the body, and there is no way to vent it, which will make the cold worse.
4. Women in the third trimester
Women in the third trimester can't eat astragalus. Astragalus has the effects of strengthening bones and muscles, benefiting qi, strengthening exterior and enriching blood, and plays a synergistic nourishing role. Eating Astragalus membranaceus in the third trimester can easily lead to fetal overgrowth, lead to overdue pregnancy and cause dystocia.
5. People who are hot and poisonous.
The exuberant toxic heat is manifested as various purulent and lovely spots, such as dry throat, sore throat, bitter taste, red complexion, red lips and red tongue, and yellow and dry tongue coating. This kind of people eat astragalus, which is easy to suppress evil spirits and produce toxic and side effects, so it is not suitable for eating. If you must eat Astragalus membranaceus, you must be compatible with heat-clearing and detoxicating drugs, such as Gardenia, Coptis chinensis, rhubarb, Patrinia, etc.
6. Why can't it be used?
(1) Use Astragalus carefully for three kinds of kidney deficiency.
Nephropathy belongs to yin deficiency, and the use of Astragalus membranaceus in patients with excessive damp-heat and toxic heat will generally produce side effects and should be banned. Because Astragalus membranaceus is sweet and slightly warm, taking it by patients with yin deficiency will help heat, and it is easy to hurt yin and promote blood circulation; Patients with damp-heat and excessive heat toxicity are prone to stagnation of pathogenic factors and aggravate their condition. If you must take astragalus, you must use it in combination.
(2) the manifestation of yin deficiency
Fever of hands and feet, dry mouth and throat, low back pain, hot flashes and night sweats, insomnia and dreaminess, red tongue without coating, and rapid pulse. The manifestations of damp heat: bitter taste, dry mouth, yellow greasy tongue coating, etc. The manifestations of excessive toxic heat: there are various purulent and lovely infections, such as acne infection, pharyngeal infection, peritonitis and so on. It is characterized by flushing, dry throat, sore throat, bitter and dry mouth, red lips, yellow and dry tongue coating and slippery pulse.
When patients with yin deficiency use Astragalus membranaceus, it must be compatible with nourishing yin drugs, such as Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Radix Scrophulariae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Radix Asparagi, Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati, etc. Damp-heat patients must be compatible with damp-heat clearing drugs, such as Coptidis Rhizoma, Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Scutellariae Radix, etc. Those with excessive heat toxicity must be combined with heat-clearing and detoxicating drugs, such as Coptidis Rhizoma, Gardenia Fructus, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, Patrinia, etc.
(3) Pay attention to the dosage
Astragalus membranaceus can aggravate the symptoms of excessive internal heat and antiperspirant, so it is not suitable for those with initial exogenous diseases, anhidrosis, indigestion, hyperactivity of yang due to yin deficiency and excessive heat toxicity. Patients should not increase the dosage of Astragalus membranaceus without authorization, otherwise the probability of adverse reactions such as hypertension will increase obviously. Therefore, astragalus must have a certain degree of tea drinking.
7. Efficacy of Astragalus membranaceus
(1) Yiqi Shengyang
For proctoptosis, uterine prolapse, metrorrhagia, dizziness and fatigue caused by qi deficiency, it is often used with Cimicifuga rhizome and Bupleurum root.
(2) Strengthening exterior and astringing perspiration
It is mostly used for spontaneous sweating caused by physical deficiency. If the exogenous wind is cold, the superficial qi is not firm, and sweating is not stopped, long-term treatment with Astragalus membranaceus, Atractylodes macrocephala and Saposhnikovia divaricata has obvious effects.
(3) supporting sores and discharging pus
Astragalus membranaceus can also be used to produce sores and expel pus, and it has a good granulation effect when combined with honeysuckle and other traditional Chinese medicines.
(4) diuresis and detumescence
It is used for puffiness caused by yang deficiency. It is often used with Ji Fang, Poria and Atractylodes macrocephala.