Sheng Di Huang has the efficacy of clearing heat and cooling blood (relieving blood heat by clearing heat), nourishing yin and promoting the production of body fluid, etc. It is mainly used in the treatment of warm poisonous spots (spots and plaques appearing on the skin due to warm and hot poisonous evils invading the human body) caused by heat entering into the camp and blood (the heat evils invade the human body to a deep extent and the symptoms are more serious), vomiting and epistaxis and other conditions.
Sheng Di Huang (生地黄), which is cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, enters the heart, liver and kidney meridians. It is mainly used in the clinical treatment of spots, vomiting of blood, thirst and irritation of the tongue, constipation due to fluid injury, fever due to yin deficiency, and tidal fever due to bone vaporization (a burst of heat, with the feeling that the heat is penetrating from inside the bone to the outside) caused by the entry of heat into the camps of the blood.
It is mainly used in decoctions for internal use, but when used to treat conditions such as heatiness and yin deficiency, it can be taken in the form of freshly squeezed juice.
The adverse effects of Radix et Rhizoma Dioscoreae is not known, but it is contraindicated for those who are allergic to this drug.
It should be taken under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be used on its own blindly, so as not to cause delay in the treatment of the disease.