Green atractylodes has a wide range of medical applications. In simple terms, it can promote protein synthesis and effectively lower blood sugar, and it can also treat bloating and gas. In addition, it has other effects and benefits such as improving digestion, diuresis, anti-cancer, expectorant, hypnotic, and antibacterial effects. However, when using green atractylodes, one must pay attention to its side effects.
【Suitable Population for Green Atractylodes】
People with yin deficiency and internal heat or bleeding should not take it, and those with qi deficiency and excessive sweating should use it with caution.
【Food Therapy Effects of Green Atractylodes】
Green atractylodes has a pungent and bitter taste and a warm nature. It belongs to the spleen and stomach meridians. It has a strong drying and dispersing effect and can both raise and lower. It has the functions of drying dampness and invigorating the spleen, dispelling filth and turbidity, expelling wind and dispersing cold, and improving eyesight. It is mainly used to treat dampness obstructing the spleen and stomach, abdominal distention, nausea, diarrhea, leucorrhea, epidemic diseases, malaria, cholera, rheumatism, cold and damp bi syndrome, foot qi, atrophy, and night blindness.
【Food Incompatibility with Green Atractylodes】
Green atractylodes should not be used with coriander or garlic.
【Preparation Guide for Green Atractylodes】
1. Green atractylodes can be combined with magnolia bark, tangerine peel, and licorice to dry dampness, regulate the spleen, and promote digestion. If the spleen is damp and turbid, with diarrhea and reduced urination, it can be used with magnolia bark, poria, and alisma to strengthen the spleen, dry dampness, increase urination, and promote bowel movements. For the treatment of children with cholera and diarrhea, it can be used with ginseng and papaya. If the spleen has accumulated dampness for a long time and caused a craving for alcohol, pain in the side, decreased appetite, and sour taste, it can be used alone as powder or made into pills with jujube flesh to dry dampness, invigorate the spleen, and transform phlegm and dampness.
2. For those who have symptoms of headache, body pain, and no sweating, similar to typhoid fever, with an epidemic nature, it can be combined with notopterygium, siler, and angelica dahurica. For those who have symptoms of cold and heat, abdominal distention, and are affected by mountain miasma, it can be used with scutellaria, bupleurum, and notopterygium. For those who have symptoms of intermittent fever due to seasonal malaria, it can be combined with magnolia bark, areca nut, and cyathula officinalis. For those who have symptoms of cholera and vomiting due to summer and autumn dampness, it can be combined with patchouli, pinellia, and magnolia bark.
3. For those who are affected by wind-cold and dampness and have symptoms of no sweating, headache, neck stiffness, and body aches, it can be combined with notopterygium, ledebouriella, chuanxiong, and angelica dahurica.
4. For the treatment of improving eyesight, it can be decocted with pig liver or sheep liver.
