Huang Qi Astragalus Root - Chinese Herbal Medicine

• Nausea with possible vomitting from combination of damp with liver qi stagnation causing rebellious qi.
• Dizziness, migraines, and vertigo from damp and liver wind rising.
• Heavy or oppressed sensation of the chest.

This formula should not be used to treat dizziness or vertigo due to liver yang rising patterns.

• Fatigue, weakness, with pale complexion due to chronic qi and blood deficiency.
• Hemiplegia, slurred speech or involuntary muscle control due to blockage of the channels and collaterals.

Do not use for patients with liver wind or severe yin deficiency.

• Coldness of the limbs, borborygmus with loose stools or diarrhea due to spleen yang deficiency.
• Spontaneous or easy sweating, general fatigue, changes in appetite due to spleen qi deficiency.
• Pale complexion and preference for warm food or drinks due to spleen yang and qi deficiency.
• Shortness of breath and noticable lack of desire to speak may present if both spleen and stomach qi are weak.
• This formula is also commonly used for prolasped organs.

• Use with caution for yin deficient patients.

• High fever with aversion to cold.
• Thick phlemg that may be both in sinus and chest.
• Vertigo or dizziness that is caused by excess heat.
• Rashes, carbuncles, and other types of skin disorders that are caused by heat.
• Constipation and scanty or dark urine.

• Contraindicated for pregnancy.
• Use with caution for patients presenting with loose stools or diarrhea.

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• Irritibility or easily prone to outburts or anger.
• Liver disease such as hepatitis, cirrhosis, fatty liver.
• Jaundice - yellowing of the skin, brittle nails, pale complexion.

• Ovoid foods and drugs that tax the liver such as coffee, alcohol, fried foods, etc.
• Use with caution during pregnancy.

• The formula is used to tonify both the spleen and heart which can be damaged from excessive overthinking, compulsions, etc. along with poor dietary habits and stressful lifestyle.  
• Anxiety, phobias, palpitations, insomnia, dream disturbed sleep, poor appetite, pallid complexion.
• In women spleen and heart deficiencies may lead to prolonged periods with little flow or early periods, heavier with pale blood.

• A combination of jia wei xiao yao wan and gui pi wan - similar effects but with more spleen qi and blood tonification.
• A range of stress related issues - essentially mixes of stagnation with underlying deficiencies.
• Potential uses with immune / idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and other bruising/bleeding issues with appropriate diagnostic factors.

• Wind-cold-damp bi syndromes in qi deficient patients - joint pain possibly with heaviness of the limbs that generally improves with movement.  Rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, gouty arthritis.  With wind-cold-damp patterns other inflammatory conditions such as fibromyalgia.
• Atrophy from qi and blood stagnation - stroke recovery.

• Fatigue, lethargy, sensation of feeling heavy or cold.
• Low appetite, bloating, borborygmus, loose bowels.
• Impotence, infertility, low libedo.
• Insomnia, night sweats, vivid dreams, nightmares.

• Please note that there are two formulas with the same name but slightly different compositions.  One is from Wang's Wen Re Jing Wei and tonifies the yin more strongly, the other (which is the one discussed here) is from Li's Pi Wei Lun (Discussion of the Spleen and Stomach) and tonifies the spleen more strongly.  Both have similar usages but are not directly interchangeable.  
• Clears summerheat and dries dampness - summer colds and flus, heatstroke - fever, fatigue, excessive sweating with loose stools and heaviness in the body.
• Along with respiratory infections in the right cases certain types of asthma may be appropriate for this formula.
• Dampheat related inflammatory condtions such as Colitis are approprirate with the right underlying factors.
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with symptoms of spleen deficiency and heat.
• Wtih the right underlying factors the range of perimenopausal symptoms may be appropriate - low libido, fatigue, water retention, fibroids, heavy cycles.  Where this appear with spleen qi deficiency signs and kidney weakness, this formula may be appropriate.

• Tonifies both qi and blood and nourishes the heart and calms the spirit - generally used for weakness from longer term or deep diseases such as cancer and for a host of other conditions affecting a broad range of the body and psyche such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and autoimmune conditions such as Lupus, Scleroderma, MCTD.
• Anemia.
• May be used alone or in conjunction with a formula such as yu ping feng wan to enhance immunity - particularly in patients with frequent colds and flus.
• Raynaud's condition in addition to the other connective tissue issues listed above.
• Micturition syncope, nephritis, cancers of the genitourinary tract.
• Male infertility, possibly with Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan, for sperm volume and motility issues.
• Along with other immune benefits, hepatitis C.
• Lung cancer.

• Use with caution or seek an alternative in deficiency cases with very pronounced sensations of coldness.  Part of this is due to the relatively neutral (i.e. non warming) aspects of this formula.

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• Stiffness, pain, and/or tightness of the neck.

• Irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, excessive uterine bleeding or spotting between cycles. 
• Infertility, history of miscarriage. 

• Use with caution with patients that present with heat signs.

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• Arthritis from damp heat in Chinese Medicine terms.
• Knee issues with kidney and liver systems involvement.
• Lower body pain and/or inflammation - hips, knees, ankles, toes especially when the pain moves around due to interior wind.
• Connective tissue disorders.

• Frequent colds, flus, chronic bronchitis - general low immunity to common infections.
• Spontaneous sweating, aversion to wind and/or cold.
• With appropriate diagnosis may be used to treat acute facial paralysis/Bell's Palsy.

• Use with caution with patients presenting with yin deficiency.
• Do not use for spontaneous sweating due to an exterior syndrome - only for sweating due to wei qi deficiency.

• Xiao Ke (wasting and thirsting syndrome), qi and yin deficiencies of the kidney and spleen most commonly seen in the advanced forms of diabetes type II - excessive thirst, excessive urination, strong hunger symptoms, weight loss.
• Cloudy urine especially with detectable sweet scent.