Rehmannia glutinosa is a kind of heat-clearing and fire-relieving medicine, and its efficacy varies with different combinations, so it should be used in combination with the patient’s condition, and choose the appropriate medicines, commonly used medicines are maitake, mulberry leaves, scutellaria baicalensis, zhebeimu, piper betel, Coix lacryma, dongguaoren, peach kernels, chrysanthemums, bitter almonds, leucaena leucocephala, and carthamus tinctorius.
Rehmannia glutinosa has the efficacy of clearing heat and diarrhea, generating fluids to quench thirst, removing vexation, stopping vomiting, and inducing diuresis. It can be used for fever with vexation and thirst, coughing due to lung heat, spitting of pus in lung carbuncle, vomiting and rattling due to gastric heat, and astringent pain due to feverish drenching (burning stinging and pain during urination, accompanied by frequent urination and urgent urination, and discomfort from pulling on the lower abdomen). Its adverse effects are not clear, the spleen and stomach cold people should not be taken.
This product is not as powerful as Gypsum and Zhimu in clearing heat and diarrhea, but clearing heat does not hinder the stomach, and generating fluids does not love evil. It is suitable for heat illnesses that injure fluids, irritable heat (irritability and sultriness) and thirst. It is often taken with maitake, pear, water chestnut, lotus root juice.
This product into the lung meridian, can make the lung qi clear and clean, then the heat cough since the removal, if the treatment of wind-heat lung cough, often with mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, bitter almonds, etc., the treatment of evil heat congestion of the lungs of cough phlegm thick, often with Scutellaria baicalensis, zhebeimu, piper betel, etc.. Because it is light and transparent, it can dispel phlegm and expel pus, and is often used with Coix Seed, Donggua Ren and Peach Kernel for those who vomit foul-smelling pus and phlegm in lung carbuncle.
It is also often used in combination with Bai Mao Root and Psyllium Husk to treat hot, astringent pain and short, red urine (urine that is small in volume and dark yellow in color).
If you need to use Rehmannia glutinosa, please do so under the guidance of a professional physician to identify the symptoms.