Hai Feng Teng can be used as a traditional Chinese medicine decoction for internal use, and there is no clear contraindication to the use of medicine.
The source of Hai Feng Teng is the dried vine stem of Piperaceae plant, which is pungent, bitter and mildly warm in nature; it belongs to the liver meridian and has the efficacy of dispelling wind-dampness, clearing the meridians and collaterals and relieving paralysis and pain, which can be used for treating wind-cold-dampness paralysis, pain in the limbs and joints, muscular constriction and contracture (persistent muscular tension and rigidity), unfavorable flexion and stretching as well as injuries from beating and stasis, bruise pain and swelling and other diseases.
Its adverse effects and contraindications are not clear, but Hai Feng Teng for the treatment of the above conditions, but also in the physician under the guidance of the identification of other Chinese herbs decoction for internal use, such as Qiang Wu, Duhuo, Panax ginseng, safflower, etc., can also be into the poultice formula for external use, do not recommend blindly use their own Chinese herbs, so as to avoid medicines are not the right delay in the condition.