Red ginseng can replenish qi and consolidate hair loss, etc.; maitake can nourish yin and clear the heart, etc.
Red ginseng is the dried root and rhizome of the cultivated ginseng of the plant of the family of Wujiaceae after being steamed. It can greatly replenish vital energy, restore the pulse and consolidate desiccation (restoring normal pulse, preventing and controlling deficiency and desiccation), and benefit qi and blood ingestion (preventing bleeding by means of replenishing qi). It is used in treating deficiency, cold limbs and weak pulse, failure of qi to take in blood, and bleeding in the case of metrorrhagia (excessive menstrual flow or dribbling).
Maitong is the dried tuberous root of Maitong, family Liliaceae. It can nourish yin, promote fluid production, moisten the lung and clear the heart. It is used for lung dryness and dry cough, yin deficiency and consumptive cough, paralysis of the throat (pharyngeal redness, swelling and pain, or dryness, foreign body sensation, or pharyngeal itching and discomfort, dysphagia), sore throat, thirst due to injury of the body fluid, internal heat and thirst (internal fever accompanied by symptoms such as overeating and excessive drinking and urination), heartburn and insomnia, and constipation due to dryness of the intestines.
Patients are advised to use the medicine under the guidance of a doctor.