Women who take Sha Shen as prescribed by their doctors have the benefits of nourishing Yin and clearing the lungs (getting rid of lung heat by nourishing the fluid in the lungs), benefiting the stomach and generating fluids (nourishing the stomach by replenishing the fluids in the stomach), resolving phlegm, and benefiting the qi. Sha Shen (沙参), slightly cold in nature and sweet in flavor, belongs to the Lung and Stomach meridians. It is used in treating lung-heat and dry cough, cough due to yin deficiency, dry cough with sticky phlegm, deficiency of gastric yin (insufficient yin fluid in the stomach), scanty food and vomiting, deficiency of qi and yin, vexation and heat (irritability and sultriness), and dryness of the mouth. For the treatment of yin deficiency, cough, epistaxis (vomiting blood, nosebleed), it can be combined with maitake, lily of the valley, Radix et Rhizoma Shengdi, etc. For the treatment of dryness-heat injury to the lungs, coughing and wheezing, coughing and blood, it can be combined with bei sasanqua, maitake, apricot kernel, cimicifuga, etc., to moisten and purify the lungs. Adverse effects of Salvia divinorum have not been precisely recorded. According to the record of “Eighteen Antidotes”, Salvia divinorum cannot be used with quatrefoil. According to “The Classic of the Materia Medica”, “There is no solid heat in the internal organs, and the person who coughs with lung deficiency and coldness should not take it”, therefore, Sha Shen is forbidden to be used for coughing with wind-cold. If you need to use salvia, it is recommended to go to the hospital, in the professional Chinese medicine practitioner after a clear identification of choice, not blindly buy drugs, so as to avoid the drug is not the right evidence, affecting the efficacy of treatment.