Sheng Di Huang, also known as dried Di Huang, is sweet, bitter and cold in nature, with the effect of clearing heat and cooling the blood, nourishing Yin and generating fluids, as a clearing and cooling medicine.

Cooked dihuang: sweet, slightly warm. Attributes to the liver and kidney meridians. Effects Nourishes the blood, nourishes the yin, and fills the marrow. <br><br> Both a cold and a warm, each other can avoid too cold and too hot, both nourishing yin and nourish the blood and nourish the blood, each other complementary. However, the nature of cooked products viscous, impede digestion, where the spleen and stomach weak, stagnant phlegm, epigastric distension and less food and loose stools should not be served.