The adverse reactions and contraindications of Five Fingers Hairy Peach are not clear, while people with liver and kidney yin deficiency should be cautious of using Tu Fu Ling.
1. Five-fingered hairy peach is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, for the root of Ficus schizophora, a plant of the mulberry family. Five-fingered walnut is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and enters the spleen, lung and liver meridians, with the effects of strengthening the spleen and tonifying the lungs, promoting qi and diuresis, and relaxing the tendons and activating the collaterals.
It is commonly used in the treatment of spleen deficiency and edema, poor appetite and weakness, consumption and cough, night sweating (abnormal sweating after going to sleep and stopping sweating after waking up), hypoglossia, postpartum lactation, rheumatism and paralysis, edema, cirrhosis of the liver and ascites, and bruises and injuries. Its adverse reactions and contraindications are not clear.
2. The Chinese herbal medicine Poria cocos is the dried rhizome of Sarsaparilla glabra of the lily family, with sweet and light flavor, flat nature, and attributed to the liver and stomach meridians. Poria cocos has the efficacy of detoxification, dehumidification, and joint facilitation, and is usually used for the contracture of limbs, tendon and bone pain caused by syphilis and mercury poisoning; damp-heat gonorrhea, dyspareunia, carbuncles and swellings, scrofula (mainly refers to cervical lymph node nodule tuberculosis), and scabies.
Note that people with deficiency of yin in the liver and kidney should be cautious in taking the medicine; avoid drinking tea when taking the medicine.
If you need to take five-fingered hairy peach and Tu Fu Ling, you need to recognize the evidence, should be used under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, do not blindly use your own medication, so as not to cause discomfort.