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Rhizoma Polygonati is a medicinal herb used as a component of traditional Chinese medicine in treating COVID-19. What are the benefits of using Rhizoma Polygonati? It may help with spleen and stomach Qi deficiency with lassitude, fatigue, and loss of appetite. It may help with stomach Yin deficiency with a loss of appetite, loss of taste, dry mouth, dry stools, and abdominal distention due to Qi stagnation. It may help with lung Qi and Yin deficiency with a little sputum, dry cough, and cough due to consumption. It may help with kidney Yin and Jing deficiency with light-headedness, lower back pain, and weakness of the lower extremities. Contraindications Contraindicated for those with excessive dampness. Contraindicated for those with diarrhea due to cold. Shouldn’t be used…

Rhizoma Curculiginis, commonly known as Curculigo, Golden Eye-Grass Rhizome, and Common Curculigo Rhizome is a Chinese herb used in traditional Chinese medicine. What are the benefits of using Rhizoma Curculiginis? It tonifies the kidneys and strengthens Yang. It may help with spleen and kidney Yang deficiency, urinary incontinence, impotence, nocturnal emissions, and irregular menstruation. It may help with infertility from either a cold womb or cold essence. It expels cold and eliminates dampness. It strengthens the bones, lower back, knee pain, and sinews. Contraindications Contraindicated for those with Yin deficiency with heat signs. Contraindicated for those with excess heat signs. Contraindicated during pregnancy. Do not use it for a long time. Do not store it in…

Fructus Hordei Germinatus, commonly known as Barley Sprouts and Malt is a kind of herb germinating from barley. What are the benefits of using Fructus Hordei Germinatus? Reduces food stagnation, strengthens the stomach, and improves digestion: it helps to reduce food stagnation due to undigested starchy foods or grains and all types of fruit, poorly digested milk in infants, and food stagnation due to spleen Qi deficiency with weak digestion and anorexia. Inhibits lactation: in large doses, Fructus Hordei Germinatus can reduce milk flow and in small doses, it promotes milk flow. Facilitates the smooth flow of liver Qi: with a stifling sensation or distention in the epigastrium or ribs, belching, and anorexia Treating…

Ramulus Cinnamomi, commonly known as Cinnamon Twig and Cassia Twig is a traditional Chinese herb used to treat inflammation based on its purgative, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, and antineoplastic activities. What are the benefits of using Ramulus Cinnamomi? It may help to treat edema due to cold phlegm or Yang Qi deficiency with dizziness, urinary dysfunction, and palpitations. It may help to treat palpitations due to Yang obstruction in the chest due to deficiency or stagnation. It may help with upward movement of phlegm and thin mucus and disorderly descent of lung Qi with chest and back pain, shortness of breath, and palpitations. It is anti-inflammatory and therefore is superior in treating wind-heat and dampness or when itching is…

Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae, commonly known as Smooth Greenbriar Rhizome, Glabrous Greenbriar Rhizome, China Root, and Smilax is a Chinese herb that is used in that widely used for detoxication, relieving dampness and diuretic. What are the benefits of using Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae? It relieves toxicity and eliminates dampness. It may help to treat jaundice and joint pain. It may help to clear damp-heat from the skin (like recurrent ulcers or other hot skin lesions). It may help to promote normal urination (reduce burning, and painful urination). This herb may neutralize mercury poisoning. It is excellent for treating syphilis, especially in the secondary and tertiary stages. One source says that this herb…

Stemonae Radix is a Chinese herb that is used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as an antitussive and insecticidal remedy. What are the benefits of using Radix Stemonae for the skin and body? It moistens the lungs and stops coughing: Radix Stemonae may help with acute and chronic cough, asthma, and bronchitis. It expels parasites and kills lice: Radix Stemonae can be used topically for head and body lice or fleas, spider bites, as a wash for bacterial vaginosis, and as a nightly retained enema for pinworms. It can help with eczema: because of its anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties, Radix Stemonae has been used to treat eczema. Antioxidant and anti-tyrosinase activity: Radix…

Cortex Mouton, commonly known as Tree Peony Root Bark and Moutan Root Bark is a herbal medicine widely used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for the treatment of blood-heat and blood-stasis syndrome. What are the benefits of using Cortex Moutan? It may help to treat blood stasis with abdominal masses, amenorrhea, lumps or bruises due to trauma, menstrual cramping, and liver blood stagnation. It is used as an antispasmodic, analgesic, antiaggregatory, and antioxidative agent. Cortex Moutan has been shown to treat various disorders like diabetes, brain ischemia-reperfusion injury, inflammation, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, sepsis, HIV infection, and herpes simplex virus infection. There are also some reports showing the anitumor activity of Cortex…

Flos carthami is a herb that is commonly used in traditional Chinese herbal medicine. Clinically, the Flos carthami Injection has been used concomitantly with other Western drugs and may be used concomitantly with β-blockers to treat cerebrovascular and coronary heart diseases, in China. What are the benefits of Flos Carthami? It may help in the treatment of blood stasis, especially in women with gynecological problems such as amenorrhea, postpartum dizziness, abdominal pain, retained lochia, and abdominal masses. It may help with trauma, nonsuppurative sores, carbuncles, and dark, purplish erythema. This herb may induce labor. It might help to inhibit the growth of cancer cells. It may help with incomplete expression of…

Semen Persicae commonly known as the peach kernel is a herb that is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. What are the benefits of using Semen Persicae? It may help in treating abdominal pain, traumatic injury, menstrual disorders, flank pain, lung abscess, and intestinal abscess with fixed abdominal masses associated with blood stasis. It may help with constipation due to dry Intestines. It reduces hardness below the heart, eliminates sudden, stops coughing and upward rebellious Qi, violent hemorrhage, breaks up mobile and fixed abdominal masses, unblocks vessels, and stops pain. It expels blood heat, dryness, and itching, drains stagnant blood in the abdomen, and promotes the movement of congealed blood in the…

Rhizoma Chuanxiong is a Chinese herb that is commonly used in Traditional Chinese medicine. What are the benefits of using Rhizoma Chuanxiong? Invigorates the blood and promotes the movement of Qi: It helps to treat blood stasis, especially in gynecology with amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, difficult labor, or retained lochia. it promotes the movement of Qi and blood stagnation with pain and soreness in the chest, flanks, and hypochondria. It Expels Wind and alleviates pain: it may help with externally contracted wind with dizziness, headache, or painful obstruction. It is especially useful for headaches due to wind-heat, wind-cold, or blood deficiency. It may help to treat wind skin disorders. When Rhizoma Chuanxiong is used…