Women are allowed to drink Huang Jing if the indications for its use occur during menstruation.
Huang Jing is the name of the traditional Chinese medicine for the dried rhizome of the plant Dian Huang Jing, Huang Jing, or Huang Jing with many flowers, which is flat in nature, sweet in taste, and belongs to the spleen, lung, and kidney meridians. It is effective in strengthening the spleen and kidney, tonifying qi and nourishing yin, and moisturizing the lungs.
Clinically, it is mainly used for treating tiredness and fatigue, deficiency of spleen and stomach qi, deficiency of stomach yin (insufficient yin fluid in the stomach), poor appetite and dry mouth, coughing and coughing up blood with exertion, insufficiency of essence and blood, soreness and weakness of waist and knees due to deficiency of kidneys, premature whitening of beard and hair, tinnitus in the ears and darkness in the eyes, and internal heatiness and thirstiness (internal fever accompanied by the symptom of overeating, excessive drinking, excessive urination, etc), and so on. The adverse effects and contraindications of Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati are not yet clear.
From the point of view of the efficacy and contraindications of Huang Jing, patients, such as the indications of Huang Jing, manifested as kidney deficiency, lumbar and knee soreness and weakness, coughing and coughing up blood, tiredness and weakness, etc., then during menstruation is allowed to drink Huang Jing.
It is recommended that patients who experience discomfort during menstruation go to the hospital in time, follow the doctor’s instructions, do not blindly use their own medication, to avoid causing adverse consequences.