Side effects and contraindications of Xanthium sibiricum

At present, there are no significant side effects during the use process. If it is for some special patients, such as pregnant women, the elderly, children, or breastfeeding women, they must go to the hospital to consult a doctor and take the medicine under the doctor's guidance. In addition, when taking the medicine, it must be taken after meals, and patients with gastrointestinal yin deficiency and internal heat should take the medicine with caution.

It can dispel wind, clear lung heat, clear nasal passages, and relieve headaches. It can be used for dysentery caused by wind-cold and wind-heat. For example, it can be used to treat acute and chronic rhinitis or sinusitis, as well as seasonal allergic rhinitis.

Xanthium sibiricum is a common Chinese medicinal material. It tastes slightly bitter and sweet, is warm in nature, is toxic, and belongs to the lung meridian. It is also called old Xanthium sibiricum, Taoist Head Number, and Cibaluo. Xanthium sibiricum is mainly used to treat rheumatism, cold arthralgia, carbuncle, limb cramps and pain, epilepsy and other symptoms. Because Xanthium sibiricum has certain toxic side effects, taking too much may cause side effects. Some patients may experience symptoms of mild poisoning, such as dizziness, headache, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, etc. In more serious cases, other psychiatric symptoms may also appear, such as anxiety, impaired consciousness, etc.

Xanthium sibiricum is the dried, perfect, involucral fruit of the Xanthium sibiricum plant of the Asteraceae family. It tastes slightly bitter, is warm in nature and is toxic. Its function is to dispel cold and dampness, and it is mainly used to treat headaches, body aches, and limb cramps caused by rheumatism. It is often combined with Notopterygium wilfordii, Clematis chinensis, and Glechoma longituba. The second is to clear the nasal passages, which can treat various rhinitis and excessive runny nose, such as sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, etc., and are often combined with gardenia, white peony, asarum and other medicines. The third is to eliminate parasites, eliminate knots and relieve itching, and treat various types of ringworm, scabies, rubella, prurigo, etc. which are mainly caused by itching. Xanthium sibiricum is toxic and should not be used in excess. Xanthium sibiricum should not be used for headaches and body pains caused by deficiency of both Qi and blood.