As a traditional Chinese medicine “Yu Li Ren” into medicine, and almonds in the medicinal properties, efficacy, main treatment, contraindications, etc. There are differences.
1. Different medicinal properties: Yu Li Ren pungent, bitter, sweet, flat, into the spleen, large intestine, small intestine. Almond flavor bitter, warm, toxic, into the lungs, large intestine.
2. Efficacy and main different: Yu Li Ren has moist and dry slippery intestines, under the gas, diuresis and other effects, can be used to treat the Jin withered intestinal dryness, food stagnation (food indigestion and accumulation in the stomach) stagnation, abdominal distension, constipation, edema, foot fungus, urinary incontinence (urinary incontinence) and other diseases.
Almond has expectorant cough, asthma, laxative effect; the main treatment of external cough, wheezing, laryngeal paralysis (pharyngeal redness, swelling and pain, or dryness, foreign body sensation, or pharyngeal itching discomfort, dysphagia), intestinal dryness and constipation and other diseases.
3. Contraindications are different: Pregnant women should be cautious of using Yu Li Ren. Yin deficiency cough and loose stools should not take almonds; in addition, overdose of bitter almonds, poisoning can occur, manifested as vertigo, sudden fainting, palpitations, headache, nausea and vomiting, etc., need to timely detoxification treatment.
Almonds and almonds are two different drugs, it is recommended to use under the guidance of a doctor, do not take on their own.