Supplementing qi but not lifting it, promoting fluid production but not helping dampness, strengthening body resistance but not loving evil, and tonifying deficiency without severity, which is used for some diseases that really need tonic but are not suitable for using ginseng. Therefore, it is a tonic medicine suitable for all ages. Pseudostellaria heterophylla is mainly used for treating spleen and stomach weakness, loss of appetite, listlessness, deficiency of both qi and yin, cough due to lung deficiency with little dry expectoration, palpitation, spontaneous sweating and shortness of breath, as well as internal heat and thirst due to qi deficiency and body fluid injury in the late stage of epidemic febrile disease, or neurasthenia, palpitation and insomnia, dizziness and amnesia, and summer fever in children, and can improve human immune function and improve human heart function.
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Pseudostellaria heterophylla is from Materia Medica Congxin. "Pseudostellaria heterophylla is as thin as a ginseng strip, short and firm, but it has a reed pattern, and its strength is not inferior to that of Dashen." ? Pseudostellaria heterophylla is slender spindle-shaped or elongated, slightly curved, with a length of 3-10 cm and a diameter of 0.2-0.6 cm. The surface is yellowish-white, smooth, with slight longitudinal wrinkles and fibrous root marks in the depression. Others believe that it is named because of its small shape.
References:
People's Daily Online-Why does Radix Pseudostellariae tonify spleen and qi?