How much Dendrobium should be taken at one time?

In fact, there are many Chinese medicinal materials around us that can play a role in health care. Take wolfberry for example, it is the most commonly used health product. For example, men can drink wolfberry tea in daily life, which can not only drive away the coldness in the body, but more importantly, it can also play a role in nourishing the kidneys. Dendrobium is also a commonly used Chinese herbal medicine. So how much Dendrobium should be used at one time?

Dosage of Dendrobium

When soaking Dendrobium in water, you must pay attention to the dosage. If you put too much Dendrobium at one time and cause overdose, it will cause serious consequences such as Dendrobium poisoning. Generally speaking, for healthy people and sub-healthy people, the daily intake of fresh products can be controlled at 10g to 20g; the amount of dry products should be controlled at 3g to 5g. When there is no measuring scale, we can estimate the amount of Dendrobium by quantity. Under normal circumstances, each person should use one fresh strip per day, and no more than 5 pieces should be soaked in water each time. The weight of Yunnan Dendrobium officinale is between 0.8g and 1.2g. The earring Dendrobium from Anhui and Zhejiang is slightly smaller, about 0.5g per piece.

The new edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia records the dosage of Dendrobium as follows:

【Nature and flavor and meridians】Sweet, slightly cold. It enters the stomach and kidney meridians.

【Function and indications】Nourishes the stomach and produces body fluid, nourishes yin and clears away heat. It is used for damage to body fluid due to febrile disease, dry mouth and thirst, insufficient stomach yin, loss of appetite and dry retching, persistent deficiency heat after illness, yin deficiency and excessive fire, bone steaming and fatigue fever, blurred vision, and weakness of tendons and bones.

[Usage and Dosage] 6-12g; fresh product 15-30g.

Taboos of Dendrobium

1. Dendrobium can restrain evil spirits, so that they cannot be dispersed out of the body. Therefore, if the body suffers from a disease of a warm nature, it is forbidden to take too much Dendrobium, otherwise it will be detrimental to the body's recovery.

2. Dendrobium candidum also has a certain moisturizing effect, so if you have a damp and hot constitution, it is best not to soak Dendrobium candidum in water to drink.

3. Incompatible with Dendrobium: radish, mung bean, honeysuckle, dandelion, houttuynia cordata, croton, rhubarb, hemp seed and Glauber's salt, etc.

4. Contraindications: People in the early stages of a cold, people with a cold constitution, pregnant women, and infants.