People with superficial deficiency and spontaneous sweating (frequent natural sweating due to weakness of the muscular surface), and people with headaches due to Yin deficiency should not take Jingwu.
Jingwu is the above-ground part of the plant Jingwu, family Labiatae, which is slightly warm in nature and pungent in flavor. Thuja has the effects of dispersing wind from the surface of the body, eliminating rashes and sores (promoting the penetration of rashes to the outside and eliminating skin sores), and stopping bleeding.
With its calm and peaceful nature, Jingwu can be widely used for external surface symptoms (mainly manifested as respiratory symptoms after feeling external evils), regardless of wind-cold, wind-heat or cold-heat inconspicuous people. It can also be used for impenetrable measles, itchy rubella, sores and ulcers with superficial symptoms. Stir-fried charcoal of Jingwu can stop bleeding, and can be used to treat vomiting blood, epistaxis, and metrorrhagia (excessive menstrual flow or dribbling).
The adverse effects of Jingwu are not clear at present. The nature of Jingwu is warm, so those with surface deficiency and spontaneous sweating, and those with yin deficiency and headache should not take Jingwu.
Jiao Wei should be applied according to the doctor’s prescription, and should not be taken on its own to avoid adverse consequences.