Polygonum multiflorum, I believe you are no stranger to this precious traditional Chinese medicine. Polygonum multiflorum has many functions. It can be used to treat many kinds of diseases. It can also replenish qi and nourish blood. Because its medicine is mild, it is often used to replace ginseng. Do you know the side effects of Polygonum multiflorum? If you want to know, just follow Xiaobian and read down.
Prepared Polygonum multiflorum
The side effects of Polygonum multiflorum can be divided into two kinds: raw use and preparation. Raw use is unprocessed Polygonum multiflorum, and preparation is processed Polygonum multiflorum. The toxicity of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb is minimized through special processing technology, and the side effects are not big for ordinary people. The side effect is unprocessed raw Polygonum multiflorum.
Raw Polygonum multiflorum has certain toxic and side effects. The toxic and side effects are mainly because Polygonum multiflorum contains toxic components anthraquinones. If it is taken in excess for a long time, the result is like taking rhein, chrysophanol, emodin, emodin methyl ether, etc. if the dosage is too large, it will stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, resulting in bowel ringing, nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting and other diseases, which are bound to produce toxicity, Diarrhea is common.
Polygonum multiflorum with the wrong food materials will cause physical discomfort after consumption. Whether it is raw Polygonum multiflorum or prepared Polygonum multiflorum, remember not to suffer with the following foods: onion, garlic, pork, scaleless fish, dizziness and other symptoms may occur. In severe cases, paroxysmal tonic spasms, restlessness, convulsions, and even respiratory paralysis may occur.
Excessive use of Polygonum multiflorum will cause damage to the stomach. In the mouse experiment of Polygonum multiflorum, long-term gavage of Polygonum multiflorum Decoction concentrate can significantly increase the weight of adrenal gland in mice. Polygonum multiflorum also has the function similar to adrenal cortex. For mice with bilateral adrenal glands removed, it can significantly improve their stress ability and reduce the mortality of mice caused by freezing. Radix Polygoni Multiflori can promote the accumulation of liver glycogen in norepinephrine starved mice.
Contraindications: those with loose stool and wet phlegm should take it carefully; Avoid iron.
How to use raw Polygonum multiflorum dialectically? Whether raw Polygonum multiflorum should be used or prepared should be used dialectically according to the characteristics of different symptoms and symptoms.
Raw Polygonum multiflorum without processing has the effects of detoxification, moistening intestines and defecation;
Processed Radix Polygoni Multiflori has the effects of tonifying liver and kidney, benefiting essence and blood, black beard and hair, strengthening muscles and bones, removing turbidity and reducing fat. It is mainly used for blood deficiency and yellowing, dizzy tinnitus, early white beard and hair, sore waist and knees, limb numbness, metrorrhagia and leakage, hyperlipidemia, etc.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that medicine is divided into three poisons. How to control "poisons" involves many links, such as drug collection, processing, compatibility, dosage, treatment time and so on. This is not explained clearly by simple pharmacological analysis. It is obviously not rigorous to judge the right and wrong of Polygonum multiflorum only by pharmacological analysis.
The Institute of traditional Chinese medicine of the Chinese Academy of traditional Chinese medicine also believes that it is not arbitrary to say that Polygonum multiflorum hurts the liver. Adverse drug reactions are also related to dose and medication time. If Chinese medicine is taken in excess or for too long, it may lead to adverse effects. People often think that it doesn't matter to take more tonic drugs for a long time. Because of this, Polygonum multiflorum is often taken in excess and for a long time. As a result, some liver detection indexes are abnormal.
From the adverse reactions reported so far, most of those involved in the use of compound preparations containing Polygonum multiflorum or single prescription of Polygonum multiflorum are related to excessive medication and long medication time, or some do not use drugs according to the principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment.
Very few people may also have some degree of abnormal liver indexes within the normal dosage and time range. These people often belong to super sensitive people, and some will have adverse reactions to a variety of drugs or foods.