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What are the effects and functions of Shengmai Drink?
Shengmai Drink is a common traditional Chinese medicine decoction in daily life, with excellent heat-relieving effects. Therefore, many people especially like to drink some in summer to prevent heatstroke. In fact, Shengmai Drink has many other effects and functions, everyone should fully understand it!
1. From the composition of Shengmai Drink, ginseng contains ginsenosides, which can strengthen heart qi and replenish lung qi; Schisandra has astringent properties, which can prevent the exhaustion of vital energy; Ophiopogon contains sugars, which can nourish yin and clear heat. Therefore, Shengmai Drink can prevent heatstroke and preserve health in summer.
2. Shengmai Drink can also improve cardiac function, increase coronary blood flow, resist myocardial ischemia, adjust myocardial metabolism, and reduce oxygen consumption.
3. Shengmai Decoction can protect myocardial cells, improve microcirculation, resist shock, regulate blood pressure, resist arrhythmia, and anti-inflammatory.
4. Shengmai Drink can enhance immune function, improve blood rheology, improve liver function, resist mutation, and anticancer.
5. Shengmai Drink can be used for both qi and yin deficiency, palpitations, shortness of breath, weak pulse, and spontaneous sweating. It can be used to treat myocardial infarction, angina, shock, hypotension, arrhythmia, pulmonary heart disease, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, Keshan disease, and other conditions.
Precautions
Shengmai Drink can be taken for symptoms caused by yin deficiency of the heart, but it should not be taken for yang deficiency of the heart.
Shengmai Decoction is effective for dry cough with little phlegm, but it should be used with caution for weakness of the spleen and stomach, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal distension, and copious sputum cough.
Shengmai Drink can be used for palpitations and palpitations caused by hypotension, so patients with hypertension should take it under the guidance of a physician.
