Astragalus has the efficacy of tonifying qi and promoting yang, fixing the surface to stop sweating, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, etc. It can be used to treat lung qi deficiency, spleen deficiency and qi deficiency, spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the daytime, aggravated by sweating with a little movement), and sores and ulcers that have been ulcerated for a long time and do not converge. There has been no research showing that astragalus can be used directly to treat high blood pressure.
Astragalus has good effects of tonifying spleen qi and benefiting the lungs, and can be used clinically to treat diarrhea and sagging internal organs caused by spleen qi deficiency, and coughing and wheezing for a long period of time, shortness of breath, and fatigue (mental exhaustion and physical weakness) caused by lung qi deficiency.
Astragalus has good effects of replenishing qi and astringing sweat, and can be used to treat spontaneous sweating and weakness caused by deficient wei qi (insufficient positive qi defending the human body’s muscle surface).
Astragalus has the efficacy of converging sores and promoting the growth of new flesh (to help sores heal faster and promote the growth of new flesh), and can also be used to treat localized skin sores caused by deficiency and toxicity that have not healed for a long time, and sores that are difficult to heal.
Astragalus single drug can not be used for the treatment of hypertension, hypertension is extremely complex etiology, can be attributed to Chinese medicine headache, dizziness and other categories, according to its clinical evidence of the use of appropriate Chinese medicine prescription, can not rely on single drug treatment.
Astragalus should be used correctly under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner. Astragalus should be used with caution in cases of solid symptoms, such as solid evil, stagnation of qi and dampness, food stagnation (indigestion of food and stagnation of food in the stomach), carbuncle and gangrene (a kind of venomous sores, which occurs in the surface of the body, the limbs, and the internal organs of the acute suppurative diseases), and solid symptoms, such as yin and yang deficiency (deficiency of yin fluid and hyperactive yang qi), such as the beginning or the collapse of the heat poison is still full of.