People with severe symptoms of evil should not use Radix Pseudostellariae. Abundance of external evils mainly refers to exogenous evils, such as a cold, feeling wind-cold evils, severe evils, and high fever, which mostly refers to superficial excesses of wind-cold.
Patients with high blood pressure, nephritis, and gastritis should not eat too much.
It should not be used together with hellebore.
Extended information:
Pseudostellariae Radix Pseudostellariae has the effects of replenishing qi, strengthening the spleen, producing body fluid and moistening the lungs. It is often used to treat spleen deficiency, physical fatigue, loss of appetite, weakness after illness, insufficient Qi and Yin, spontaneous sweating, daydream, and dry cough due to dryness of the lungs.
It is often used for people with weak spleen and insufficient stomach yin who eat less and are tired. It can benefit the spleen and nourish stomach yin. It is often used with Chinese yam and dendrobium.
Reference materials:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Pseudostellariae
Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine-Pseudostellariae
People's Health Network-Why Pseudostellariae Supplements Is spleen replenishing qi a light tonic?