Stone olive, also known as stone cactus, has no precisely documented side effects.
Stone olive is sweet, slightly bitter, cool in nature, and belongs to the lung and kidney meridians. It has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs (nourishing the lungs by replenishing the lung fluid), clearing heat and removing toxins (clearing heat and toxicity and evil qi from the body), inducing diuresis, eliminating blood stasis, and is used as a main treatment for coughing with heat in the lungs, coughing up blood, spitting up blood, vertigo, headache, swelling and pain in the throat, headache of wind-dampness, and leucorrhea, and other symptoms. The adverse reactions and contraindications of stone olive are not clear.
Stone olive belongs to the cool Chinese medicine, if you do not follow the doctor’s instructions to take the medicine correctly, resulting in a large number of stone olive, for people with cold spleen and stomach (spleen and stomach weak cold) to take may hurt the spleen and stomach, causing spleen and stomach discomfort, nausea, vomiting and other uncomfortable symptoms.
Therefore, this Chinese medicine should be purchased and taken under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner after identification.