Astragalus, the ancient recipe called “Huang Qi”, Li Shizhen in the “Compendium of Materia Medica” explained as: “Qi, long also, Huang Qi yellow color, for the long tonic, so the name, now commonly known as Huang Qi.” Astragalus is one of the important tonic medicine, whether ancient prescriptions or clinical use today, many places have its use, and, the effect is often immediate. There is a classic medical case for thousands of years to truly reflect the efficacy of astragalus. Astragalus and the story of Empress Dowager Liu During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Xu Yinzong was an official under the King of Southern Chen Xin Cai, Empress Dowager Liu suddenly suffered a stroke and could not speak, the pulse was sunken and mouth silent, could not take medicine. Consult all the famous doctors for treatment have no effect. Seeing the condition worsened day by day, the new Cai Wang is anxious, proficient in medicine Xu Yinzong said: “can not be drug, it is appropriate to steam the soup, medicine into the coup, weeks can be disease” so with astragalus, wind two medicines boiled soup several drachms, put under the bed of Empress Dowager Liu, the juice diffused, smoke around. Sure enough, Empress Dowager Liu was able to speak that night, and after a period of conditioning, Empress Dowager Liu recovered as before. Later evaluation: Fang Feng can make Astragalus, Astragalus has Fang Feng its function is more and more, is fearful of each other and make also. People’s mouth is connected to the earth, nose is connected to the sky. The mouth to nourish Yin, nose to nourish Yang. The day is clear, so the nose is not tangible and invisible; the earth is turbid, so the mouth is tangible and invisible. Empress Dowager Liu’s disease does not say, if the tangible soup, slow less than the matter; now cast to two things, soup gas full room, then the mouth and nose both suffer. Not the wise man through the gods, can not return to life. Astragalus sources and effects [Source] is the dried root of the legume Astragalus mongolica or Astragalus membranaceus. Origin】Dang Shen is mainly produced in Shanxi, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and other provinces and regions. Taste】Sweet, slightly warm. It belongs to the lung and spleen meridians. Efficacy】Strengthens the spleen, tonifies the middle, lifts the yang and lifts the sunken, benefits the guard and consolidates the table, diuresis, and helps to promote toxicity and produce muscle. Astragalus is taken “Compendium of Materia Medica”: Astragalus is sweet, warm and pure Yang, its use has five: tonic all deficiencies, one; benefit the vital energy, two; strengthen the spleen and stomach, three; go to the muscle heat, four; drain pus and stop bleeding, blood, internal support Yin gangrene, for the sore family holy medicine, five. Therefore, astragalus has a wide range of applications: 1, spleen qi deficiency evidence. For the tonic to benefit the qi important medicine, can rise Yang lift trapped, long and treatment of spleen deficiency in the spleen qi trapped long diarrhea prolapse, visceral prolapse. Often used with ginseng, Chai Hu and Sheng Ma. 2. Deficiency of lung qi. Can tonify lung qi, often used with aster, dong Hua, almond. 3, evidence of Qi deficiency and spontaneous sweating. It can nourish the Qi of the spleen and lung, and benefit the guard and fix the surface, often used with oyster and ephedra root. 4, deficiency of qi and blood, sores difficult to ulcerate and difficult to rot, or ulcerated for a long time difficult to converge. 5, paralysis, post-stroke sequelae. In addition, people often think that “astragalus is a tonic, tonic harmless, more is better, sickness cure, no disease strengthen the body”. In fact, as long as the medicine has contraindications, astragalus is no exception. Astragalus contraindications 1, hot flashes, night sweats, red cheekbones, five heartburn, hemoptysis, emaciation and other “Yin deficiency Yang hyper”; 2, fever, red face, gas, cough, phlegm and asthma, chest fullness and other “table”; 3, body lumps and hard knots, swelling, abdominal pain and other “evil”, 4. those with constipation, deep red urine, thick or white or yellow tongue coating, etc.; 5. those with pustular sores or ulcerated pustules, with fever or local redness, swelling and burning, etc. “The person who has pustular sores or pustular ulcers with fever or localized redness and swelling.