Musk can cause pregnant women to cause miscarriage, while a large amount of dendrobium may cause diarrhea, abdominal pain and so on.
Musk is pungent, warm in nature, belonging to heart and spleen meridians, with the effect of activating blood circulation and menstruation, subduing swelling and relieving pain, opening up and awakening the mind, applicable to fever and fainting, qi depressions and violent syncope, menstrual closure, obstructed labor and stillbirth, thoracic paralysis (chest tightness and pain), heart pain, paralysis and numbness, and swelling and pain of the throat. Musk has strong blood circulation and menstruation, internal or external use can lead to abortion, so pregnant women need to be prohibited from using.
Dendrobium has the effect of benefiting the stomach, nourishing the yin and clearing the heat, used for fever and fluid injury, gastric yin insufficiency (insufficient yin fluid in the stomach), dry mouth and thirst, less food and dry vomiting, or after the disease of the deficiency of heat does not go away, dark eyes, impotence and weakness of sinew and bone, etc.. Dendrobium is sweet in taste, slightly cold in nature, belonging to the stomach and kidney meridian, taking a large amount of it may cause abdominal pain, diarrhea and other discomforts, so patients with cold spleen and stomach need to be prohibited from taking it.
Musk and dendrobium both belong to traditional Chinese medicine, it is recommended that when patients have discomfort, go to the hospital in a timely manner, under the guidance of the Chinese medicine practitioner’s identification of medication, and not blindly used on their own, so as to avoid serious effects, causing harm to the body.