The benefits of drinking Sheng Di Huang for women include clearing heat and cooling the blood (relieving blood heat by clearing heat), and nourishing yin and promoting the production of fluids. The effects of Sheng Di Huang do not discriminate between men and women; both men and women have the aforementioned effects.
Sheng Di Huang is a traditional Chinese medicine for the fresh or dried tuberous roots of Di Huang, a plant of the genus Di Huang in the family Xuan Shen family, which is sweet, bitter and cold in nature, and belongs to the heart, liver and kidney meridians. It has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, nourishing yin and generating fluids.
Sheng Di Huang is used in treating heat entering the camp and blood (the degree of invasion of heat into the body is deep and the symptoms are more serious), tongue-redness and thirst, macular epistaxis (vomiting blood, nosebleed), internal heat due to deficiency of yin, bone vapor and laborious heat, thirst due to injury of fluids, thirst due to internal heat (internal heat accompanied by symptoms of overeating and excessive drinking, and excessive urination), and constipation due to dryness of intestines and constipation.
The adverse effects of Radix et Rhizoma Dioscoreae are not known. It should be noted that Dihuang should not be combined with Chuanwu and Caowu; it is cold and stagnant in nature, and should not be used by people with spleen deficiency, dampness and stagnation, or with abdominal fullness and loose stools (thin and unformed feces).
If there is a need for medication, it should be used under the guidance of a doctor, and should not be used blindly, so as to avoid adverse consequences.