Can you take American ginseng for kidney yang deficiency?

Patients with kidney yang deficiency are not recommended to consume American ginseng because of its bitter-sweet and slightly cold nature, so if people with kidney yang deficiency take it, it may further damage the body’s yang energy due to its cold nature, thus aggravating the symptoms of kidney yang deficiency. Therefore, the specific treatment of kidney yang deficiency is mainly based on warming the kidney yang, you can use warming drugs to regulate, such as the commonly used Chinese medicine Guihundihuangwan, Jinkui Kidney Qi Pill, Right Return Pill, etc. You can also use the Chinese herbal medicine Baji Tian, Epimedium, Bupleurum, Fructus Cistanches and other drugs to regulate. In addition, you can also use food with warm nature for dietary therapy, such as ginger, leek, chestnuts, walnuts, etc., can also play the role of warming kidney yang, for kidney yang deficiency, cold, cold hands and feet, lumbar pain, frequent urination, urinary urgency, frequent nocturnal urination and other symptoms also have a certain role in regulating.