Yuanzhi belongs to a kind of Chinese medicine, which can be directly brewed and drunk.
Yuanzhi mainly has the effects of tranquilizing the mind and benefiting the intellect (stabilizing the mind and promoting intellectual development), transporting the heart and kidneys (the fire of the heart descends and the water of the kidneys rises to control each other), expelling phlegm, and subduing swelling.
In clinical practice, Yuan Zhi is mostly used to treat forgetfulness, epilepsy, convulsions, insomnia, dreaminess, palpitations (rapid heartbeat, often accompanied by panic), and dysphoria (violent heartbeat, panic and restlessness).
Yuan Zhi can also improve laryngeal paralysis (red, swollen and painful throat, or dryness, foreign body sensation, or itchy discomfort in the throat and difficulty in swallowing), cough with excessive phlegm, carbuncle (a poisonous sore, acute purulent disease occurring on the body surface, limbs, and internal organs) sores, and swollen and painful breasts.
Generally, it can be decocted and taken internally, and can also be soaked in wine or put into pills. It can also be infused into water for drinking, but not as a substitute for medication to treat diseases.
Appropriate amount for external use. It is suitable to be used in scorched form to dissolve phlegm and relieve cough. It should be used with caution for those with gastric ulcer or gastritis, and for those with solid heat or phlegm fire.
Patients are advised to take Yuan Zhi in a reasonable way according to their own needs and under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, and can directly brew water for drinking. If it is used in the treatment of diseases, it is necessary to follow the doctor’s instructions to choose the way to use the medicine.