【Prescription Name】
Yellow Qi Paste
【Ingredients】
20g Astragalus, 20g Fresh Reed Rhizome, 10g Gypsum, 6g Licorice, 10g Yam Powder, 30g Honey
【Method】
Boil the first four ingredients with water for 30 minutes, strain and collect 2 cups of the liquid. Add the Yam Powder and keep stirring continuously to prevent burning. Cook until it turns into a paste, then add honey and bring to a boil.
【Function】
Yellow Qi Paste is a nourishing and tonifying recipe. Take it three times a day. It helps clear heat, moisturize the lungs, tonify Qi, and nourish Yin.
【Indications】
Suitable for symptoms such as wheezing and coughing due to lung deficiency with heat, elderly weakness, long-term fever, palpitations and shortness of breath with exertion, aversion to wind and spontaneous sweating, poor appetite and fatigue.
【Tips for Making Yellow Qi Paste】
Use raw gypsum for consumption.
【Health Tips】
It can also be used for prevention in winter.
【Food Incompatibilities】
Astragalus: Incompatible with white fresh skin, but avoid Lactuca indica, avoid Wulingzhi and Fangfeng.
Licorice: Incompatible with Acorus calamus, but avoid Dajin, Yuanhua, Gansui, and seaweed.
Yam (dried): Incompatible with Gansui and Dajin, do not take with alkaline drugs.
Honey: The nutritional composition of honey is complex. When eaten with green onions, the organic acids and enzymes in honey will react with sulfur-containing amino acids in onions, producing harmful biochemical reactions or toxic substances, irritating the gastrointestinal tract and causing diarrhea.
【Precautions for Astragalus】
Avoid use in patients with excess heat and yang deficiency.
① "Avoid use in patients with turtle shell" - "Compendium of Materia Medica."
② "Use with Poria" - "Drug Combinations".
③ "Avoid white fresh skin" - "Rihua Zi Materia Medica".
④ "Avoid use in patients with excessive yang or excessive exterior pathogenic factors, and use less in patients with yin deficiency" - "Introduction to Medicine". "Avoid Fangfeng."
⑤ "Do not use in patients with chest stuffiness and gastrointestinal stagnation; avoid use in patients with excessive yang and yin deficiency; avoid use in patients with excessive upper heat and deficient lower heat; avoid use in patients with excessive anger and disharmony of liver qi; avoid use in patients with severe acne and excessive heat" - "Commentary on Compendium of Materia Medica".
