As a traditional Chinese medicine, Perilla leaf has the effects of relieving the epidermis and dispersing cold (removing cold from the surface of the muscles), moving qi and harmonizing the stomach. It should not be taken by those who are suffering from warm diseases (exogenous acute fevers with more rapid onset, more severe fever, and faster transmission, which tend to turn dry and injure the body fluid) and those who have qi deficiency. There is no evidence to suggest that perilla leaves alone can dispel dampness.
Perilla leaves are warm in nature, pungent in flavor, and are attributed to the lung and spleen meridians. It is mostly used in the treatment of people with wind-cold flu, cough, nausea, vomiting in pregnancy due to stagnation of Qi in the spleen and stomach, and fish and crab poisoning. This product because of its external can relieve the surface dispersal of cold, the internal can move qi and broaden the middle, so the wind-cold surface evidence and stagnation of qi, fullness in the chest and epigastrium, nausea and vomiting, more suitable, often with the qi and broaden the middle (regulating the qi of the spleen and stomach) of the products used together.
The taste of pungent can move, in order to broaden the middle to remove distension, and stomach to stop vomiting, and also has a certain amount of qi to stabilize the fetus, can be used to treat stagnant qi in the middle jiao of the chest and epigastric fullness, nausea and vomiting. Perilla can detoxify the poison of fish and crab, and can neutralize and detoxify abdominal pain and diarrhea caused by eating fish and crab poisoning. The adverse effects of this product are not known.
Individual Chinese medicine generally can not be used as a treatment plan, it is recommended to take under the guidance of a professional doctor to identify the evidence. Patients with physical discomfort should consult the hospital for early and standardized treatment.