Pueraria Root (Ge Gen) offers multiple therapeutic effects, including relieving the exterior and reducing fever, generating fluids to quench thirst, and raising yang to stop diarrhea. Details are as follows:
- Relieving the Exterior and Reducing Fever
Pueraria Root is sweet and pungent in flavor with a slightly cool nature, possessing a light, ascending, and dispersing effect. When used under medical guidance, it can induce sweating to release the exterior, relieve muscle tension, and reduce fever, providing supportive relief for fever associated with exterior syndromes. - Generating Fluids to Quench Thirst
With its sweet and cool properties, Pueraria Root enters the Spleen and Stomach channels. When prescribed by a physician, it can regulate the spleen’s fluid metabolism, generating fluids to quench thirst. It is effective in alleviating thirst caused by heat diseases or yin deficiency with wasting-thirst (diabetes-like conditions). - Raising Yang to Stop Diarrhea
Pueraria Root promotes the ascent of clear yang. Under medical supervision, it can elevate the spleen and stomach’s clear yang qi, clear accumulated heat in the intestines, and exert a yang-raising and diarrhea-stopping effect.
The method of using Pueraria Root varies depending on the condition being treated. Patients should follow a physician’s guidance, avoiding self-adjustment of dosage or administration methods to prevent compromising treatment efficacy.
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