Don’t take Chinese patent medicines that replenish qi and nourish blood randomly~

Replenishing Qi and nourishing blood is a compulsory course for women. If women lack Qi and blood, their complexion will become worse. If this continues for a long time, it may lead to other diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history in our country. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that many medicinal materials are related to replenishing qi and blood for women. So what are they?

1. Ginseng

Nature and flavor: sweet, slightly bitter, neutral. It enters the spleen, lung and heart meridians.

Nutritional ingredients: Contains ginsenoside II, ginsenoic acid, volatile oil, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, etc. Carbohydrates, bile alkaloids, niacin.

Medicinal effects: Greatly replenishes vital energy, nourishes the spleen and lungs, calms the mind and improves intelligence, and promotes the production of body fluids and quenches thirst. It can strengthen the excitatory process of the cerebral cortex, while also strengthening the inhibition process, thereby improving the efficiency of mental work. It can enhance the body's resistance to harmful stimuli, improve anti-fatigue ability, and has the effects of strengthening the heart and promoting hematopoietic function. It also promotes gonadal function. It is used for symptoms such as collapse, heart failure, shortness of breath, wheezing, spontaneous sweating and cold limbs, palpitations, chronic illness and physical weakness, and neurasthenia.

2. Angelica

Nature and flavor: sweet, spicy, warm. Heart, liver, and spleen meridians.

Nutritional ingredients: Contains volatile oil, sucrose, vitamin B12, vitamin A substances, palmitic acid, stearic acid, unsaturated oleic acid, linoleic acid, p-sitol, etc.

Medicinal effects: Nourishes blood and blood, regulates menstruation and relieves pain, moisturizes and lubricates the intestines. It has the effects of regulating uterine contraction, protecting the liver, calming the nerves, resisting vitamin E deficiency and having antibacterial effects. It is used for irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, abdominal pain, metrorrhagia, blood deficiency headache, dizziness, dry intestines and constipation.

3. Polygonum multiflorum

Nature and flavor: sweet, bitter, astringent, slightly warm. It enters the liver, heart and kidney meridians.

Nutritional ingredients: Contains ketones (mainly chrysophanol, rhein, rhein), lecithin, starch, crude fiber, etc.

Medicinal effects: Prepared Polygonum multiflorum can nourish the liver, improve essence and blood, and blacken hair. It can lower serum cholesterol and alleviate the formation of atherosclerosis. Lecithin has the effect of strengthening nerves, has a laxative effect, and has an adrenal cortex hormone-like effect. It has an inhibitory effect on human tuberculosis and Shigella flexneri. Used for dizziness, tinnitus, premature graying of hair, weak waist and knees, numbness of limbs, and high blood lipids to treat stupidity. Polygonum multiflorum can detoxify, promote bowel movements, and is used for constipation, etc.

4. Ophiopogon japonicus

Nature and flavor: sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold. Enters the lung, stomach and heart meridians.

Nutritional ingredients: Contains various body soaps, serum, glucose, vitamin A-like substances, and p-glutamic acid.

Medicinal effects: nourishes yin and moistens the lungs, clears the heart and relieves restlessness, benefits the stomach and produces body fluids, has antitussive and expectorant, cardiotonic and diuretic effects. It is used for symptoms such as dry cough due to lung dryness, vomiting blood, hemoptysis, lung spasm, lung pain, fatigue and fever, damage to body fluid due to febrile disease, and constipation.

5. Northern and Southern Ginseng

Nature and flavor: sweet, slightly cold. It enters the lung and kidney meridians.

Nutritional ingredients: Contains Adenophora saponin, starch, etc.

Medicinal effects: nourishes yin and clears the lungs, removes phlegm and relieves cough, has expectorant, cardiotonic and anti-fungal effects. It is used for symptoms such as dry cough due to lung heat, chronic cough due to deficiency and fatigue, dry throat and sore throat due to yin damage, etc.