AW: ban xia

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I don´t think that you are beeing overly cautious with your opinion. We

should never forget, that we are dealing with very powerful medical

substances. In the case of ren shen I have seen several patients who have

experienced a severe worsening of their high blood pressure problems or

their migraine by taking ren shen because they believed, that something as

good and expensive as ren shen must be helpful for everything... This if of

course no surprise for someone who knows the powerful pharmacological

effects of ren shen.

Even more this applies to ban xia which is, as we know, a toxic substance

and therefore usually combined with ginger, either in its raw or dried form,

to break its toxicity (even though this is not the case in all classical

formulas).

Ban xia is also a very warm substance that should not be consumed by someone

who is suffering from warm or hot phlegm problems, without at the same time

compensating this aspect, by adding cooling or yin supplying substances as

for example in ban xia xie xin tang.

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Von: Todd

Gesendet: Samstag, 17. Februar 2001 23:21

An: cha

Betreff: ban xia

 

 

I was having a debate with a colleague about the use of ban xia. Ban

xia is one of my favorite herbs for phlegm and damp in both hot and cold

conditions. It is of course one of the chief ingredients in the tonic

formula liu jun zi tang. I feel that banxia is a strong medicinal

substance and should be used medicinally only. So I argued that liu

junzi tang was appropriate to treat symptomatic conditions of qi xu

damp, but not to be used indefinitely for spleen xu patients. What I am

referring to is more like kitchen medicine, where someone might take ren

shen and sheng jiang in congee every day for a year. While sheng jiang

and even chen pi are food, banxia is decidedly not and I did not think

it should be consumed like a food in this way. Am I being overly

cautious or is this correct?

 

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