Chasteberry can nourish the liver and kidneys, improve eyesight and darken hair, while Cistanche tonifies kidney and yang, benefits essence and blood, moistens the intestines and laxatives. The formula combining the two can nourish the liver and kidneys, and nourish yin and yang.
Chasteberry is sweet, bitter and cool in nature, and belongs to the liver and kidney meridians. It has the effect of nourishing the liver and kidney, brightening the eyes and making hair black, and can be used for conditions such as deficiency of liver and kidney yin (deficiency of yin in the liver and kidneys), dizziness, tinnitus, lumbar and knee soreness, premature whitening of the beard and hair, darkness of the eyes, and tidal fever of the bones (a burst of heat that is felt to be penetrating from the inside of the bones to the outside).
Cistanchis is sweet, salty and warm in nature. It belongs to the kidney and large intestine meridians, and has the effects of tonifying kidney yang, benefiting essence and blood, moistening the intestines and relaxing the bowels. It is used in conditions such as kidney yang insufficiency (lack of yang in the kidneys), deficiency of essence and blood, impotence, impotence, soreness in the waist and knees, weakness in the tendons and bones and dryness and constipation in the intestines.
Combined, they can strengthen the effect of nourishing the liver and kidney, one cool and one warm, one tonifying the yin and one tonifying the yang, and the two medicines can harmonize with each other.
Contraindications and adverse reactions to chasteberry are not clear. Cistanche is contraindicated in people with yin deficiency (deficiency of yin and essence in the body, resulting in hyperactive deficiency fire), loose stools (thin and unformed feces) and diarrhea, and Cistanche should be used with caution in people with solid gastrointestinal and stomach heat, and constipation due to heat knot, the adverse effects of this drug are not clear.
The adverse effects of the drug are not known. The drug should be used under the guidance of a doctor, and it is not recommended to take the drug arbitrarily to avoid discomfort.