The herbal effects of Xuan Shen are to clear heat and cool the blood (to relieve blood heat by clearing heat), nourish yin and reduce fire (to nourish yin essence and lower fire), and detoxify and disperse knots, and work to treat diseases caused by yin deficiency and fire-heat, heat and toxin internal obstruction.
Xuan Shen is the dried root of Xuan Shen, family Xuan Shen. It is slightly cold in nature, sweet, bitter and salty in taste, and belongs to the lung, stomach and kidney meridians.
It is mainly used in the treatment of heat illnesses and yin injury, red tongue, irritable thirst, warm-heat spots (warm-heat poisonous evil invading the human body resulting in skin spots, plaques), constipation caused by injury to the body fluid, bone vapor and laborious fever, cough, eye redness, sore throat, scrofula (mainly refers to the cervical lymph node nodules), carbuncle, swelling, sores and poison and other diseases.
There is no exact record of the adverse effects of Xuan Shen, according to its flavor, it is contraindicated for those who have deficiency of spleen and stomach (spleen and stomach weak and cold), and those who have deficiency of spleen and constipation. According to the “Eighteen Antidotes”, XuanShen should not be used together with quassia.
If you need to use Radix Panax Ginseng, it is recommended to choose the medicine under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, and not to use it blindly, so as not to affect the efficacy of the medicine.