Can you use up to 30 grams of Dillon in a Chinese herbal prescription?

No. 30 grams of Dilong in a pair of medicines is too much medicine, clinically its normal dosage is usually 5-10 grams, overuse may damage the body’s yang qi, triggering physical discomfort. Dilong is an antispasmodic (calming the wind, relieving spasm) medicine, with the efficacy of clearing away heat, calming the alarm, clearing the channels, calming the asthma, and inducing diuresis. It is used in treating high fever and dizziness, convulsions with epilepsy, joint paralysis, numbness of limbs, hemiplegia (inability to move one side of the limbs), coughing and wheezing with lung fever, and oedema and urinary incontinence. This product is salty and cold, easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, so be careful with those who have cold spleen and stomach. This product is salty and cold, go down into the kidneys, but also can clear the heat knot and facilitate the waterway, clinically its normal dosage is generally 5-10 grams, decoction can play a role in the efficacy of the drug. Chinese medicine usually use the partiality of the drug, in order to regulate the balance of human body functions, to help the body to restore health, in the appropriate therapeutic dosage, can achieve the purpose of treatment of disease, but not to cause damage to the body. However, 30 grams of Dilong in one dose is far more than the normal dosage of 5-10 grams, which may be too cold and injure the spleen yang, triggering abdominal pain, diarrhea, gastric pain, coldness, cold limbs and other discomforts. It is recommended to use the medicine under the guidance of a physician. If there is any discomfort, the medicine should be adjusted in time and medical treatment should be sought.