Side effects of Ligustrum lucidum

Medicine is very common in life. Different medicines have different effects on the treatment of diseases. Therefore, when choosing medicines, you should be careful not to do it arbitrarily, especially when you don’t understand your own disease. You can’t use medicines at will. This will not help your health. Ligustrum lucidum is a medicine for treating many diseases. What are the side effects of Ligustrum lucidum?

What are the side effects of Ligustrum lucidum? Many people don’t know much about it. Any medicine has its advantages and disadvantages, so when choosing it, you must be careful and not use it casually, otherwise it will cause great harm to your health.

Side effects of Ligustrum lucidum:

1. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and kidney yang deficiency should not take this medicine.

2. People with spleen and stomach deficiency, cold diarrhea and yang deficiency should not take it.

3. "Bencao Jingshu": It should be mixed with spleen and stomach protective medicines and warming herbs such as red pepper. Otherwise, there may be risks of abdominal pain and diarrhea.

The role and efficacy of Ligustrum lucidum

1. Ligustrum lucidum is used to treat neurasthenia: Ligustrum lucidum, Channa intestine and Morus alba each 50 cents to 1 tael. Decoction in water. Or soak 2 catties of Ligustrum lucidum fruit in 2 catties of rice wine and take it daily in appropriate amount. (Commonly used herbal medicines among Zhejiang folks)

2. Refractory insomnia: 30g of Ligustrum lucidum fruit, 15g of Ziziphus jujuba seed, 10g of Echinochloa ciliata seed, 5g of Schisandra chinensis fruit, 4g of amber powder (soaked). Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, once in the afternoon and once in the evening. It can be taken continuously for 5 to 7 days.

3. Ligustrum lucidum fruit treats wind-heat red eyes: No matter how much holly seeds are, mash the juice and boil it into a paste. Store it in a clean bottle, bury it in the ground for seven days, and use it as a paste for eye drops. ("Emergency Prescription")

4. Ligustrum lucidum is used to treat kidney dryness and heat, stranguria and painful urination, weakness in the waist and legs, and long-term lower abdominal distension: 4 qian of Ligustrum lucidum, 6 qian of Rehmannia glutinosa, 6 qian of tortoise shell, 2 qian each of Angelica sinensis, Poria cocos, Dendrobium candidum, Pollen, Polygonum multiflorum, Achyranthes bidentata, and Plantago seed, and 3 large clams. Decoction in water. (Nuzhen Decoction from "Yichun Shengyi")

5. Ligustrum lucidum nourishes the kidney and yin. Take Ligustrum lucidum fruit, remove the stems and leaves, soak them in wine for a day and a night, peel off the skin, dry them in the sun, grind them into powder, and wait until the morning lotus grass emerges, pick a few stones, mash the juice and boil it into a thick paste, then make the powder into balls as big as walnuts. Take 100 pills every night, with wine. After more than ten days, the old man's physical strength increased and he no longer had to get up at night. It can also change white hair to black, strengthen the waist and knees, and raise Yin energy. Another recipe: Use Ligustrum lucidum fruits harvested in early winter and dried in the shade, soak them in wine for one day, steam them thoroughly and dry them in the sun, and take one pound and four ounces; use ten ounces of Eclipta prostrata harvested and dried in the shade in summer; use ten ounces of mulberry fruits harvested in late spring and dried in the shade. Grind the three ingredients into powder, add refined honey and make into pills as big as walnuts. Take seven or eight Zhi pills each time, with light salt water. If the mulberries are picked in May and the lotus is picked in August, you can directly mash the juice and mix the medicine without adding honey.

Through the above introduction, we have some understanding of the side effects of Ligustrum lucidum, so when choosing it, we must also be careful not to use it casually, otherwise it will cause great harm to human health. Moreover, how to use it must also be in accordance with the regulations, so that it will be of great help in the treatment of human diseases.