Analysis:
Xuan Shen other names: Chong Tai Gui Zang Zheng Ma Deer Intestine Duan Xuan Tai Xian Xiang Yu Ma Fu Cao Black Ginseng Wild Fat Flax Yuan Shen
Main components: contains alkaloids, sugars, sterols, amino acids (for L a asparagine and so on), fatty acids (oleic acid, linoleic acid, stearic acid and so on), traces of volatile oils, Carotene, etc. Preliminary analysis of the root contains genistein, phytosterols, fats, sugars, l-asparagine, trace volatile oils and a kind of alkaloids.
Properties: the root is cylindrical, slightly thick in the middle or thick and thin, some slightly curved, 6-20cm long, 1-3cm in diameter, gray-yellow or gray exhaustion color, with irregular longitudinal grooves, transverse lenticels, and sparse transverse cracks and fibrous root scars. The texture is solid, not easy to break, the section is black, slightly glossy. It has a peculiar caramel-like odor, sweet, slightly bitter and salty taste.
Functions and Indications: Treating fever, thirst, spotting, bone vapor and labor heat, sleeplessness at night, spontaneous sweating and night sweating, constipation, epistaxis, vomiting and hematemesis, sore throat, carbuncle and scrofula.1. Clearing Heat and Cooling Blood: This product is cold in nature, and it can clear the heat of the camp and the blood, and is used in the treatment of warm and feverish diseases in which heat enters into the camp and the blood, and it is often used together with Radix et Rhizoma Dendriticae and Dampy to treat warm and feverish diseases such as clearing the camp and the blood. 2. It can be used in the treatment of fever, throat swelling, eye redness, sores, gangrene, etc. 4. soften and disperse the knot This taste of salty can soften and dissipate the knot, treating the lump caused by phlegm-fire-heat, prescription such as elimination of scrofula.
Use and dosage: internal: decoction, 3 ~ 5 money; or into the pill, scattered. Externally: pounded or crushed to apply.
Adverse reactions and attention: 1. Xuan Shen has very low toxicity, no poisoning, allergy reports, is a safe use of traditional Chinese medicine. 2. This product is cold, clinical application of Xuan Shen need to pay attention to the care of yang qi. However, tumor patients with long duration of disease and weak physique, especially in the late stage, have suffered great injury to vital energy, and it is improper to use ginseng alone. Bitter cold will hurt the positive, and the disease will become more serious if the resistance to the evil is weak. At this time, we should add warm tonic medicine to check its coldness and support the positive energy.
Other: Dampness in the spleen and stomach and loose stools in spleen deficiency are not recommended.