Whether to take American ginseng during dialysis should be decided according to the patient’s own physical condition, such as the patient should not take American ginseng when suffering from cold or fever, it is recommended to consult the doctor first, and carry out the corresponding treatment under the guidance of the professional doctor’s diagnosis and do not take the medicine privately.
Dialysis refers to a treatment method to make the components of body fluids to be discharged out of the body, which is commonly used in the treatment of acute or chronic renal failure, accumulation of drugs or other poisons in the body, and is mostly considered in Chinese medicine as oedema, renal wind, lumbago, drowning, retention of urine (urinary dribbling or urinary incontinence), and so on.
Radix Panax Ginseng is sweet, slightly bitter and cool in nature, belonging to the heart, lung and kidney meridians, with the effects of tonifying qi, nourishing yin, clearing heat and generating fluids.
Radix Panax Ginseng is often used clinically for treating body heatiness caused by deficiency of qi and yin, mental fatigue, coughing and asthma, coughing up phlegm, blood in phlegm, internal heat and thirst (internal heatiness accompanied by symptoms such as eating more, drinking more and urinating more), as well as self-consciousness of dryness of the mouth and dryness of the throat, etc. It is not recommended to combine it with quassia. American ginseng should not be used with quassia; it should not be taken by patients with cold and fever.
If dialysis patients have the above indications, they can take American ginseng under the guidance of doctor. Do not self-medicate.