Efficacy and effects of raw earth and contraindications

It is cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, enters the heart, liver and kidney meridian, has the effect of nourishing yin and generating fluid, clearing heat and cooling blood, and is suitable for patients with physical deficiency and blood heat, so what are the effects and contraindications of raw earth?

Clearing heat and cooling the Blood

It is sweet and bitter, cold in nature and enters the Blood, clearing heat in the Blood and cooling the Blood. It is used for high fever, thirst and red tongue in warm-heat diseases. It can be taken as a single decoction or directly pounded in raw form, about 10~30g each time.

Tonifying Yin deficiency

This quality is moist and liquid to nourish yin, and sweet and cold to produce fluid. It has the effect of nourishing yin, moistening dryness and generating body fluid. It is used in the late stage of mixed fever disease, where evil heat injures the law. It can be used with Zhi Mu and Di Bone Bark for treating Yin deficiency and internal heat, dampness and bone vapor. If used with Artemisia annua, Turtle shell and Zhi Mu, it can treat late stage of warming disease, residual heat is not yet exhausted, yin and fluids have been wounded, and the evil is in the yin part of the body, with symptoms of night heat and early coolness, red tongue and number of veins.

Nourishing Yin to relieve cough

Raw earth nourishes yin and clears heat. It is often used to treat dry mouth and thirst, dizziness and dizziness due to deficiency of yin and fire, as prescribed in Liu Mu Di Huang Wan. It is also used in the treatment of thirst disorders due to heat and injury to the body.

Sedative

Shengdi has a significant inhibitory effect on the central nervous system. It can inhibit the autonomic activity of mice, synergize the hypnotic effect of subthreshold dose of barbiturate, and antagonize the excitatory effect of anandamide curry on mice, and in clinical practice, it can significantly improve insomnia and relieve the symptoms of hypertension in hypertensive patients.

Enhance rabbit epidemic power

Raw Dioscorea significantly improves the immune function of the body, enhances antibody production of B lymphocytes, increases the content of hemolysin in serum, enhances humoral immune function, and has also stimulated the conversion of T lymphocytes into sensitized lymphoid cells, enhances delayed metabolic reaction, and can enhance immunity.

Hemostatic

This product has the effect of stopping bleeding by cooling the blood, and can be used for various bleeding of blood heat. It is used to treat blood fever and vomiting of blood, and is often used with fresh lotus leaf and lateral cypress leaf, such as Si Sheng Jiu. Used to treat blood in the stool, often used together with Diyu. Used to treat blood gushing and blood in urine, often combined with Xiaoxi and Puhuang, such as Xiaoxi drink. Used to pick up blood-heat and leakage or postpartum bleeding and disturbance of heart and mind, with Yi Mu Cao.

Treating constipation

Shengdi is also very effective in treating febrile constipation. If treating fever and injury to yin, irritable thirst and excessive drinking, it is often used with maitong and sage. For the treatment of yin deficiency and internal heat of thirst, it can be used with yam, huangmin and shanrongying. For the treatment of warm disease and fluid injury, intestinal dryness and constipation, it can be used with Xuan Shen and Mai Dong.

Modern research on raw earth

Modern medical research shows that raw earth contains Diosbulbin, mannitol, glucose, amino acids, iron, and vitamin A. Therefore, it has anti-inflammatory, detoxifying, antibacterial, diuretic, hypoglycemic, antiradical, and anti-allergic effects, and also has some regulatory effects on the cardiovascular system.

Raw earth contraindications

1. Raw earth is a cold herb, therefore, it is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, and it is not suitable for people who have a deficient cold constitution, which may cause symptoms such as poor appetite, bloating, loose stools, weakness, phlegm, and light mouth. Some people show allergic reactions to raw earth and experience discomfort after using it, such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, dizziness, fatigue, palpitations, etc., which will subside on their own after stopping use for a few days.