Maitake can be taken during menstruation if indications exist, but it should be used in accordance with medical advice. Maitong has the efficacy of nourishing yin and generating fluids, moisturizing the lung and clearing the heart.
Maitong, sweet and slightly bitter in flavor, is slightly cold in nature. It belongs to the heart, lung and stomach meridians. It can be used for dry cough, cough with deficiency of yin, laryngeal paralysis (pharyngeal redness, swelling and pain, or dryness, foreign body sensation, or pharyngeal itching and discomfort, dysphagia), sore throat, fluid injury and thirst, internal heat and thirst (internal fever accompanied by symptoms such as overeating, drinking, and urinating), heartburn and insomnia, intestinal paralysis, constipation and so on.
Ophiopogon cures yin deficiency cough, dryness injury to the lungs, lung yin insufficiency of dry throat and mouth, dry cough without phlegm, often with sasanqua, etc.; treatment of yin deficiency lung heat, coughing, or even hemoptysis, often with asparagus; treatment of lung carbuncle coughing saliva, spitting pus such as gruel, often with Platycodon grandiflorum, licorice.
In addition, it is often used with ginseng and schizandra for the treatment of lung and stomach yin injury, heart qi insufficiency, fatigue, thirst and sweating, choking and coughing with little phlegm, shortness of breath and spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the daytime, aggravated by sweating with a little movement), and dryness of mouth and pharynx.
It is recommended to use the drug as prescribed by the doctor.