No study has yet found that Salvia miltiorrhiza can promote gastrointestinal motility. There are two types of Salvia miltiorrhiza: Southern Salvia miltiorrhiza has the effects of nourishing yin and clearing the lungs (by nourishing the fluid in the lungs to get rid of lung-heat), benefiting the stomach and generating fluids (by replenishing the fluids in the stomach to nourish the stomach), resolving phlegm, and benefiting the vital energy.
Southern Radix Panax Ginseng is used in the treatment of lung-heat and dry cough, cough due to yin deficiency, dry cough with sticky phlegm, gastric yin deficiency (insufficient yin fluid in the stomach), scanty food and vomiting, deficiency of qi and yin, and vexation-heat (irritability and sultriness) with dry mouth.
Bei Sha Shen is used in the treatment of lung-heat and dry cough, laborious cough with phlegm and blood, deficiency of stomach yin, deficiency of fluids in the stomach, heat illness, dry throat and thirst.
Salvia miltiorrhiza should not be used with quassia.
Medical advice is required for taking the above medicines.