Effects and side effects of Astragalus wine

As a traditional Chinese medicine, Astragalus can be used to treat various diseases. Many Chinese medicine practitioners often recommend that patients with edema drink Astragalus wine. In addition to reducing edema, Astragalus wine has many other benefits and side effects. The benefits include enhancing immunity, while the side effects include qi stagnation and dampness. Let's take a look at the benefits and side effects of Astragalus wine and the relevant methods of Astragalus wine.

The efficacy and side effects of Astragalus wine

The efficacy of Astragalus wine

Astragalus is sweet and warm in nature, and enters the lung and spleen meridians. It has the effects of solidifying sweat and stopping exterior symptoms, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, and detoxifying and promoting tissue regeneration. When Astragalus is combined with different medicinal materials to make wine for drinking, the effects are different. Common effects include tonifying the spleen and replenishing qi, enhancing immunity, anti-aging, invigorating qi and supporting energy, strengthening yang and benefiting essence, and astringing sweat and preventing sweating. It is often used to treat kidney yang deficiency, low back and knee pain, impotence, spermatorrhea, spleen and stomach weakness, qi deficiency and weakness, etc.

Side effects of Astragalus wine

Astragalus can be used to make wine, and its health benefits are obvious. However, you must be careful when making wine. Wine is hot in nature, which will increase the warming and dryness of Astragalus. Therefore, you must consult a doctor before use, take it under the guidance of a doctor based on your own needs, and avoid blindly taking the medicine.

Furthermore, people with qi stagnation and dampness obstruction, food stagnation, excessive external evil, the initial stage of carbuncle, or high fever after ulceration, as well as people with yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity, should avoid drinking wine soaked with Astragalus.

Astragalus wine recipe and method

Astragalus and Eucommia wine warms the yang and nourishes the kidney

Recipe: 30 grams each of Astragalus, cinnamon bark, processed Aconitum, Cornus officinalis, Photinia serrulata, and white Poria, 45 grams of Dioscorea ternata, Saposhnikovia divaricata, and Eucommia ulmoides, 60 grams each of Achyranthes bidentata, Dendrobium candidum, and Cistanche deserticola. 1500 ml of white wine.

Brewing method: Grind the first 12 herbs into coarse powder. Put it into a cloth bag, place it in a container, add white wine, seal it, soak it for 3-5 days, filter out the residue, and take 1-2 cups (15-30 ml) warm before each meal.

Efficacy: Warming yang and tonifying kidney, suitable for treating symptoms such as kidney yang deficiency, weak qi and fatigue, cold pain in waist and knees, impotence, and spermatorrhea.

Deer whip and astragalus wine for strengthening yang and improving sperm quality

Recipe: 50 grams of Astragalus, 1 deer whip, and 1000 ml of white wine.

Soaking method: Wash the deer penis, soak it in warm water, cut it open, remove the inner membrane, cut it into thin slices, put it into white wine together with astragalus, and soak it for 1 month. Drink 15-20 ml each morning and evening.

Efficacy: Strengthens yang and improves essence, strengthens the body and resists aging. It is suitable for cough, shortness of breath or breathlessness, impotence, low sperm count and infertility caused by insufficient kidney yang and deficiency of essence and blood.