The effects of Rhodiola rosea include benefiting qi and activating blood circulation, clearing the veins and calming asthma. It is used in the treatment of qi deficiency and blood stasis, chest paralysis and heart pain, hemiplegia in stroke, and tiredness and asthma.
Rhodiola rosea is the dried root and rhizome of Rhodiola grandiflora of the Sedum family. Its flavor is sweet, bitter, and its medicinal properties are flat, and it belongs to lung and heart meridians. It has a good effect of benefiting the qi and restoring the pulse, and is often used in the treatment of qi deficiency resulting in shortness of breath, frequent fatigue and weakness, chest paralysis and heart pain, stroke and hemiplegia and other diseases. Rhodiola rosea also has the effect of calming asthma, treatment of cough and asthma for a long time, palpitation, shortness of breath.
If it is used to treat the sequelae of stroke, hemiplegia (one side of the limb cannot move freely), hemiplegia, which belongs to qi deficiency and blood stasis, it can be used together with Astragalus, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong and Dilong. For lung deficiency and asthma, it is often used together with ginseng, astragalus and schizandra.
Drugs should be used under the guidance of a physician, do not self-medicate.