Dendrobium, Ophiopogon and Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng taken together are used to treat symptoms of deficiency of qi and yin, deficiency of yin in the lungs and stomach, injury to the body fluid in heat illness, dry throat and thirst.
1. Dendrobium: It has the effect of benefiting the stomach and generating fluids, nourishing yin and clearing heat. It is used for treating heat illness, dry mouth and thirst, deficiency of stomach yin (deficiency of yin fluid in the stomach), deficiency of deficiency heat after illness, deficiency of kidney yin, darkness and uncertainty of the eyes, impotence and weakness of the muscles and bones, deficiency of yin and fire. Warm-heat disease early, wet temperature (feeling dampness and heat caused by warm disease) disease fluid is not injured should not be taken.
2. Ophiopogon: It has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, benefiting the stomach and generating fluids, clearing the heart and removing vexation. It can be used for dry and dry cough of lung, prolonged cough with yin deficiency, sore throat and mute voice, insufficient yin of stomach, thirst with fluid injury, deficiency of yin of heart, insomnia with heartburn, constipation with dryness of intestines, etc. It is slightly cold in nature.
The nature of the drug is slightly cold, so it is not recommended for those who have loose stools in spleen deficiency, phlegm in the lungs and stomach (pathological products of impaired metabolism of water), dampness and wind-cold cough.
3. American ginseng: It has the effect of tonifying qi and nourishing yin, clearing heat and generating fluids. It can be used for qi and yin injuries, lung qi deficiency and lung yin deficiency, heat diseases with qi deficiency and fluid injury, dry mouth and pharynx. This medicine is cool in nature, and is contraindicated in cases of yang deficiency, cold and dampness obstruction (cold and dampness blocking the spleen and stomach in the central part of the body), and qi depressing and transforming into fire. It should not be used with veratrum.
It can be seen that the effect of Dendrobium, Maitake and Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng used together is to benefit qi and nourish yin, clearing heat and promoting the production of fluids, and is used for the treatment of qi and yin deficiency, deficiency of lung and stomach yin, injury to fluids from heat illnesses, and dryness of the pharynx and thirst, among other symptoms.
Chinese medicine should be used under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be used blindly on its own, so as not to cause adverse reactions.