The Chinese medicine Pueraria Mirifica is effective in reducing fever, transmitting rashes, generating fluids and quenching thirst, and is used as a primary treatment for superficial fever, transmitting numbness diagnosis, and thirst in febrile illnesses.
Pueraria Mirifica is the dried root of Pueraria Mirifica, family Leguminosae. It is cool in nature, sweet and pungent in flavor; it belongs to the spleen and stomach meridians. Used in raw form, it has the efficacy of detoxifying (relieving evil qi on the surface of the skin), transmitting rashes, relieving fever, generating fluids and quenching thirst (promoting the production of fluids to alleviate thirst), and used in simmered form, it has the efficacy of elevating yang and stopping diarrhea (elevating yang qi to treat diarrhea).
It is often used in treating fever, headache, thirst, measles, hot dysentery and diarrhea, hemiplegia, chest paralysis (chest pain), heartache, and so on.
The adverse reactions and contraindications of Pueraria Mirifica are not clear. However, it is not suitable for everyone, and is contraindicated in people with heavy deficiency cold, and used with caution in people with stomach cold and vomiting. It is advisable to reduce the dosage when used together with hypoglycemic drugs and cerebral vasodilators. Do not eat cold food during the use of drugs.
If you need to take Pueraria Mirifica, please get a prescription from a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, do not buy it on your own to avoid affecting your health.