The pharmacopoeia does not record seven times the herb, five times the seeds have astringent lung (astringent lung qi) to reduce fire, astringent diarrhea (astringent intestines to alleviate diarrhea by enhancing the intestinal astringency), astringent dampness and astringent sores (to reduce dampness invasion, to promote the healing of sores), astringent sweating, haemostasis, and other efficacies.
Wu Bei Zi is cold in nature, sour and astringent in taste, attributed to the lung meridian, large intestine meridian, kidney meridian, has the effect of collecting dampness and astringent sores, astringent intestinal astringency to stop diarrhea, astringency of the lungs to lower the fire, stopping bleeding, and astringent sweating.
Five times the seeds are mainly used for the treatment of lung deficiency cough, chronic diarrhea and dysentery, thirst, traumatic bleeding, skin wet rot, lung heat and phlegm cough, spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the daytime, sweating is aggravated by the slightest movement) night sweating (sweating abnormally after going to sleep, waking up sweating stops), blood in the stool hemorrhoid, carbuncle, swelling and sores, can be into the pills for internal use, but also can be used externally.
The adverse effects of this product is not clear, damp-heat dysentery (dysentery caused by damp-heat evil) is prohibited. If you need to use the drug is recommended to be used under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner to identify the evidence, unauthorized use of drugs may cause adverse consequences.