First, the differences in medicinal properties
Astragalus membranaceus is a kind of medicinal material for invigorating qi and nourishing yuan. Flat nature, sweet taste, spleen and lung meridians entered. Has the effects of protecting health, strengthening exterior, stopping sweating, promoting diuresis, removing sores and promoting granulation.
Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi is a medicinal material for clearing heat and purging fire. It tastes bitter and cold, enters the heart, lungs, gallbladder and spleen, and has the effects of purging fire and detoxifying, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage.
Second, the differences between components.
Astragalus mainly contains glycosides, polysaccharides, flavonoids, amino acids, trace elements, coumarin, trace folic acid, betaine, monocrotaline, dimethyl dihydroisoflavone and so on.
Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi mainly contains baicalein, baicalin, wogonin, wogonin, β-sitosterol, baicalein, benzoic acid and other components, and the stems and leaves contain baicalein glycoside.
Third, the difference between efficacy and function.
1. Efficacy of Astragalus membranaceus
Astragalus membranaceus is sweet in taste and warm in nature, which is a medicine for invigorating qi. Astragalus mainly tonifies the qi of spleen, stomach and lung. Astragalus has the function of improving human immunity, and it is a good medicine to supplement human qi and blood and eliminate abscess inflammation. Astragalus has a good therapeutic effect on people with this symptom, such as qi deficiency, fatigue and hyperhidrosis. Astragalus membranaceus can not only lower blood pressure, but also be used to treat patients with hypotension. Patients with low blood pressure should use astragalus more, while patients with high blood pressure should use less.
2. The efficacy of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi
Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi has the functions of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, purging fire and detoxicating, and is mainly used for treating the fire of upper jiao and large intestine meridian, clearing lung and large intestine meridian, and has a strong hemostatic effect; He is also good at treating epidemic febrile disease with heat entering qi and nourishing blood, lung-heat cough and asthma, damp-heat, summer-heat dampness, damp-heat stagnation, damp-heat stranguria, hemorrhoids, fistula and bloody stool. It can also protect the fetus and treat fetal fever and fetal movement.