Acting on the heart
Astragalus membranaceus has cardiotonic effect, increasing the amplitude of cardiac contraction and output, especially for poisoned or tired hearts. Astragalus membranaceus has protective effect on lactate dehydrogenase and micro-damage produced by cultured rat myocardial cells under the condition of glucose deficiency and hypoxia. In myocardial cells cultured by Astragalus membranaceus, mitochondria and glycogen granules are rich in cytoplasm, and glycogen granules are the energy source of cells. Therefore, Astragalus membranaceus can enhance the function of myocardial cells by strengthening their energy metabolism. Astragalus polysaccharide can antagonize acute myocardial ischemia caused by posterior pituitary index, arrhythmia caused by barium chloride in rats and ventricular fibrillation caused by chloroform in mice.
Regulate blood pressure
Astragalus membranaceus has antihypertensive effect on many animals. The intragastric administration of Huangqi decoction can control the increase of blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats. The antihypertensive components of Astragalus membranaceus are γ -aminobutyric acid and astragaloside IV. When the blood pressure of animals drops to shock level, Astragalus membranaceus can make the blood pressure rise slightly and keep stable, which has a certain two-way regulation effect on blood pressure. Astragalus membranaceus can obviously reduce the resistance of cerebrovascular, peripheral blood vessels, coronary artery and superior mesenteric artery in anesthetized dogs, and it can dilate the blood vessels in these parts, but it can contract the renal blood vessels. The hypotensive effect of Astragalus membranaceus is mainly the result of directly dilating peripheral blood vessels and reducing peripheral resistance.
Beauty function
Astragalus membranaceus is a kind of warm traditional Chinese medicine, which has the functions of anti-aging and beautifying and promoting granulation. Astragalus membranaceus is deeply loved by ladies, and its 2 1 amino acids are all trace elements beneficial to the skin.
Astragalus membranaceus has curative effect on allergy, acne and red blood, and won the high-quality award of the Ministry of Light Industry. It is a traditional Chinese medicine component with little side effects. Prevent dry, rough, slack, wrinkled and dark yellow skin, make skin delicate, smooth and shiny, and delay skin aging. Refined processing, with deionized water and other raw materials, is a nutritious Chinese medicine skin cream.
Enhance immunity
Astragalus membranaceus is the most basic Chinese medicine used to improve the immunity of lung and respiratory system. It can be used for hyperhidrosis caused by hypoimmunity, benefiting qi and strengthening spleen, and improving spleen function and hypometabolism.
tonifying qi
Astragalus invigorating qi, such as dull speech, dull walking and pale face, are all manifestations of qi deficiency of spleen and lung. Astragalus membranaceus can invigorate qi, such as astragalus membranaceus for upper body qi deficiency and astragalus membranaceus for lower body qi deficiency.
Effects on cardiovascular system
Astragalus has the functions of reducing blood viscosity, reducing thrombosis, lowering blood pressure, protecting heart, regulating blood sugar in two directions, resisting free radical damage, resisting aging, resisting hypoxia, resisting tumor and enhancing immunity, and can be used for treating heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, etc. Astragalus membranaceus can also dilate blood vessels and improve the blood circulation and nutritional status of the skin, so it is effective for patients with chronic ulcers that have not healed for a long time. It can also eliminate proteinuria in patients with nephritis, protect the liver and prevent the decrease of hepatic glycogen.
Astragalus compatibility
Compatible with Radix Paeoniae Alba, Radix Glycyrrhizae, Ramulus Cinnamomi, Rhizoma Alpiniae Officinalis, maltose, etc. Can be used for treating deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach, chronic enteritis, gastritis, diarrhea, etc.
Compatible with Cimicifuga rhizome, Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch, Angelica sinensis, Ginseng Radix, Bupleuri Radix, etc. Can be used for treating visceral prolapse, proctoptosis, uterine prolapse, etc. Compatible with Poria, Semen Cuscutae, Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, etc. It is a good medicine for treating gynecology;
Compatible with Radix Saposhnikoviae, Herba Ephedrae, and wheat, it is a good medicine for treating cold due to superficial deficiency in the elderly and infirm.
Astragalus membranaceus has the effects of benefiting qi, diuresis and detumescence. It is used together with Poria, Coix seed and Stephania tetrandra, and is also a good medicine for treating acute and chronic gastritis.
Side effects of astragalus membranaceus
Common by-products of astragalus membranaceus
The most common side effects are rapid symptoms of "getting angry", such as blushing, upset, poor sleep or insomnia, sore throat, high blood pressure or dizziness, and even aggravating or reversing the disease.
Clinically, most people often use Astragalus Membranaceus alone or take a large amount of tonic at one time, which is a dangerous behavior that does not look for a disease or aggravate the condition. Under normal circumstances, the use of astragalus tonic should be gradually increased from less to more. While taking it, observe whether there are signs of getting angry or whether the original diseases on the body are aggravated or whether there are feelings of boredom and pain. Once it is available, it should be stopped or dispensed before use. If symptoms such as fatigue, hyperhidrosis or asthma are relieved, mental and physical strength are improved, and there are no such side effects, the dosage can be increased.
The safer way is to use Codonopsis pilosula first, and then add or switch to Astragalus after it is effective and has no side effects. When using Astragalus membranaceus, the dosage is gradually increased to achieve physical tolerance and no side effects. The safest way is to use formulas.
Three kinds of kidney deficiency, use Astragalus carefully.
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.
Performance 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. Manifestations of excessive toxic heat: There are various purulent infections, such as acne infection, pharyngeal infection and peritonitis. It is characterized by red face, 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.
Attention dose
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.
Edible method of Astragalus membranaceus
(1) administration method
Use Astragalus about 5 ~ 10g and boiled water 10 ~ 20 minutes every day for future generations to drink tea, which can be brewed repeatedly.
Take about 30 grams of Astragalus every day after decoction, or drink tea after decoction for future generations to eat. 30g of Astragalus membranaceus and 0g of Lycium barbarum15g are taken after decoction, which is more effective for people with weak qi and blood.
Take about 50 grams of Astragalus membranaceus, boil the soup, and cook rice or porridge with the boiled soup, which is also very beneficial.
Some people also like to put some astragalus in barbecue, roast chicken and roast duck to increase the nourishing effect, and the effect is also good.
(2) Common dietary methods
Astragalus membranaceus soaked in water
There is a folk saying that "Huangqi decoction is often used for disease prevention and health care", which means that Huangqi often soaks water as tea to drink, which has a good disease prevention and health care effect. Astragalus tea can tonify the middle energizer and replenish qi, and it is not greasy. It can improve qi deficiency and anemia, enhance physical fitness and prolong life. If the bear is brewed with Lycium barbarum, Codonopsis pilosula, Poria cocos and other medicinal materials, the effect will be better.
Astragalus and Lycium squab
Ingredients: Radix Astragali, Fructus Lycii each 30g, squab 1, cooking wine, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, ginger slices, chicken soup and chicken oil each appropriate amount.
How to eat:
Slaughter squab, unhairing, eviscerating, washing, blanching in boiling water for a while, taking out, washing and cutting into pieces, and putting into a stew pot.
Wash Astragalus membranaceus and Lycium barbarum separately and put them in a stew.
Put cooking wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, ginger slices and chicken soup into a stew pot, steam in a cage until the meat is cooked and rotten, take out the cage, pick out ginger and astragalus, and pour chicken oil on it.
Efficacy: It has the functions of invigorating qi, strengthening yang, strengthening exterior, stopping sweating, detoxicating and expelling wind. It is suitable for patients with weakness of middle qi, listlessness, excessive sweating and carbuncle ulcer.
Chenpizhou, Huang Qi
Ingredients: Astragalus membranaceus 30g, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae 3g, japonica rice 100g, and appropriate amount of brown sugar.
Edible method: Radix Astragali is decocted in water for 3 times, and the residue is removed to obtain juice. Cook the porridge with japonica rice, then cook the dried tangerine peel slightly and add sugar. Every day 1 time for 5 ~ 7 days.
Efficacy: Astragalus membranaceus is good at invigorating qi and consolidating exterior, which is the main medicine for invigorating spleen and qi, and also good at warming Yang Qi, which is a good product for promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, while tangerine peel can also regulate qi and middle energizer. After eating this porridge, you can treat postpartum lochia of qi deficiency type (lochia is red and thin, and sometimes you feel tired and dizzy).
Huangqi Zhugan Decoction
Ingredients: 500 grams of pig liver, 60 grams of astragalus, and a little refined salt.
How to eat:
Wash pig liver, wash Astragalus membranaceus, slice and wrap with gauze.
Put the casserole on the fire, add appropriate amount of water, add Astragalus bag and pork liver, and cook into soup. When cooked, remove Huangqibao, slice pork liver, add a little salt to taste, and you can eat Ganyin decoction.
Applicable people: postpartum women.
Stewed mutton with angelica and astragalus
Ingredients: 20 grams of Angelica sinensis, 30 grams of roasted Astragalus membranaceus, 250 grams of fresh mutton, salt, onion, ginger, garlic and dried tangerine peel.
How to eat:
(1) Wrap Angelica sinensis and Astragalus membranaceus in cloth, wash fresh mutton, and cut into 2cm square pieces for later use.
(2) Put the mutton block, the wrapped angelica and astragalus together in a casserole filled with 1500ml of clean water, boil it with strong fire, then slow fire, add appropriate amount of onion, ginger, garlic and dried tangerine peel, and cook for 40-60min.
(3) After the meat is rotten, add salt. Usage: Take it with meals every other day 1 time,1time can be used continuously.
Huangqi jujube tea
Materials: 3-5 pieces of Astragalus membranaceus and 3 pieces of red dates.
How to eat:
(1) After washing the red dates with warm water, remove the core (it will be a little hot and dry if you don't remove the core, and you can also remove the core if you are cold).
(2) Soak Radix Astragali and Fructus Jujubae in clear water for 20-30 minutes (the medicinal materials need to be soaked for 20-30 minutes to facilitate the separation of medicinal properties).
(3) Ignition, after boiling, turn to low heat and cook for more than 20 minutes (don't use an induction cooker, use an open flame).
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