The effects of Astragalus include benefiting Wei and consolidating the epidermis, supporting toxins and promoting muscle growth and wound healing, etc., while the effects of tonifying bone marrow include warming the spleen to stop diarrhea, tonifying the kidney and strengthening the yang.
Astragalus has the efficacy of benefiting Wei and consolidating the surface, supporting toxin and muscle growth, strengthening the spleen and tonifying the middle, elevating Yang and lifting the sunken organs (raising the Yang qi of the body in order to lift the sunken organs), and diuretic effect. This drug is mainly used for treating deficiency of qi and blood, qi deficiency and spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the day, aggravated by sweating with slight movement), spleen and lung qi deficiency, sores and ulcers that are difficult to ulcerate and putrefy or ulcerate for a long time and difficult to converge, and so on.
The use of Astragalus is forbidden for those with sores that are still full of heat and toxicity at the beginning or after ulceration, and for those who are full of solid evil on the surface.
The effects of Radix Astragali are warming the spleen to stop diarrhea, tonifying the kidney and strengthening the yang, consolidating semen and urine (consolidating semen and urine and preventing random leakage), and tonifying qi and calming asthma (astringing the qi to alleviate coughing and wheezing). This drug is mainly used in treating kidney deficiency with spermatorrhea, impotence, enuresis, frequent urination, kidney failure to contain Qi, asthma and cough with deficiency cold, spleen and kidney yang deficiency, and cold pain in waist and knees. The drug is contraindicated in people with Yin deficiency and internal heat.
Specific use of the drug should be under the guidance of a specialist, not unauthorized use of drugs to avoid adverse reactions.