Consequences of long-term drinking of Isatis root

Taking Isatis root for a long time will definitely cause certain harm to your body. Although the toxic side effects are relatively small, all medicines are toxic. Taking it in excess will cause considerable hidden dangers and may even induce some complications. The most common complication is liver disease. More serious patients may also cause their blood pressure to drop, eventually leading to shock and coma.

Is drinking too much Isatis root harmful to people?

Isatis root is generally used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat colds, clear away heat and detoxify. The toxic side effects are generally small. Because it is an antidote, many people think it is non-toxic. However, if used in large doses for a long time, when the liver's detoxification ability decreases, it can cause cumulative poisoning and damage to the digestive and hematopoietic systems. Such as upper gastrointestinal bleeding, leukocytopenia, etc., this situation is more easily seen in pediatrics.

Because of imperfect liver function, insufficient detoxification enzymes, and difficult to control medication dosage, toxic side effects are likely to occur. Once it occurs, the medication should be stopped immediately and the patient should be rushed to the hospital. Secondly, people who are allergic to isatis root should also avoid using it. Most allergic reactions are caused by isatis root injection, and manifest as dizziness, blurred vision, shortness of breath, vomiting, palpitations, rash, and sometimes systemic erythema multiforme drug rash. In severe cases, blood pressure may drop and anaphylactic shock may occur. If rescue is not timely, it may be life-threatening.

"Isatis root is a traditional Chinese medicine. In daily life, common medicines containing isatis root, such as isatis root granules, are commonly used medicines for preventing and treating influenza and colds. Common aliases include indigo root, blue indigo root and big indigo root. It has the characteristics of bitterness and coldness, and has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and relieving sore throat. It is generally used to treat fever and sore throat, warm toxic spots, sore throat, big head plague, erysipelas and carbuncle. Children need to take it in a reduced dose as appropriate. Isatis root has very little toxic side effects, but if it is used for a long time and in large quantities, it will accumulate "drugs" and cause illness, leading to future troubles."

1. For the treatment of exogenous wind-heat or the initial stage of febrile disease, fever, headache and sore throat, it can be used alone or with other wind-heat dispersing drugs such as honeysuckle and schizonepeta. If wind-heat attacks the upper part of the body and the throat is swollen and sore, it is often used with Scrophularia, Puffball, and Arctium.

For the treatment of epidemic febrile diseases with rashes and rash, and dark purple tongue, it is often used together with raw rehmannia, lithospermum officinale, and scutellaria baicalensis, such as Shenxidan (Wenre Jingwei); if used to treat erysipelas, mumps, and big head plague, redness and swelling of the head and face, and sore throat, it is often used with Scrophularia ningpoensis, Forsythia suspensa, and Arctium lappa, such as Puji Xiaodu Yin (Dongyuan Shixiao Fang).