What are the ten traditional Chinese medicinal herbs for replenishing qi and blood

1. Black goji berry

Black goji berry is a traditional Chinese medicine, a food ingredient, and also a tea. It is rich in anthocyanins and has many effects, including boosting immunity, delaying aging, tonifying the kidney and replenishing essence, preventing cancer, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, improving circulation, enriching the blood and calming the mind, improving sleep, and brightening the eyes.

2. Licorice

Traditional Chinese medicine holds that licorice is neutral in nature and sweet in taste. Its functions are to tonify the spleen and harmonize the middle, relieve acute pain, moisten the lungs and stop coughing, remove toxins, and harmonize all other medicines. It is suitable for conditions such as weakness of the spleen and stomach, pain in the stomach and abdomen, cough, palpitations, sores and toxic swellings, and poisoning.

3. Astragalus

Traditional Chinese medicine holds that "the spleen is the foundation of the acquired constitution." Li Gao, the representative figure of the spleen-and-stomach school, believed that astragalus "benefits original qi and tonifies the three burners," and Huang Gongxiu of the Qing Dynasty called astragalus "the best of all qi-tonifying medicines." Astragalus is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, and its main pharmacological action is "benefiting qi and securing the exterior." It can also "promote urination" and "draw out toxins and promote tissue regeneration." Whenever traditional Chinese medicine considers a condition to involve "qi deficiency," "insufficient qi and blood," or "sinking of middle qi," astragalus can be used.

Modern medicine even uses it for liver protection, diuresis, anti-aging, anti-stress, and lowering blood pressure. This also shows that this traditional Chinese medicine for replenishing qi and blood is a generalist that dares to treat any disease.

4. Notoginseng

Zhao Xuemin, a famous physician of the Qing Dynasty, said in his book Supplement to the Compendium of Materia Medica: "Ginseng is first for tonifying qi, and notoginseng is first for tonifying blood; their taste is the same and their effects are also equal," calling notoginseng "the most precious of traditional Chinese medicines." Modern research has found that the chemical composition, pharmacological effects, and clinical applications of notoginseng are similar to those of ginseng. Its total ginsenoside content exceeds that of ginseng. Notoginseng can dilate blood vessels, reduce vascular resistance, increase cardiac output, slow heart rate, and reduce myocardial oxygen consumption and capillary permeability. It has clear advantages over ginseng in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.

5. Angelica sinensis

Traditional Chinese medicine holds that angelica sinensis is sweet in taste and rich in nature; sweetness enters the spleen, and richness nourishes the blood, so it has the effect of tonifying blood. The Bencao Zheng records: "Angelica sinensis, its taste is sweet and heavy, so it is specifically able to tonify blood; its qi is light and pungent, so it can also move blood. Within tonification there is movement, and within movement there is tonification. It is truly the qi medicine among blood medicines, and the sacred medicine for tonifying blood." From this, the blood-tonifying effect of angelica sinensis can be seen.

6. Atractylodes macrocephala

Traditional Chinese medicine holds that atractylodes macrocephala is warm in nature and sweet and bitter in taste. Its functions are to tonify qi and strengthen the spleen, dry dampness and promote urination, stop sweating, and calm the fetus. It can be used for poor appetite and loose stools due to spleen qi deficiency, fatigue and shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating; phlegm-fluid retention and edema due to spleen deficiency causing impaired transportation and transformation and retention of water-dampness; and during pregnancy, spleen deficiency and weak qi, fetal restlessness, and swollen feet.

7. American ginseng

American ginseng, also called flower flag ginseng, is a wonderful tonic for clearing and replenishing. Anyone who wants to use ginseng but cannot tolerate its warmth can use it. American ginseng is sweet and slightly bitter in taste. Its functions are to tonify qi and nourish yin, clear fire, and promote fluid production. It is suitable for lung deficiency with consumptive cough, chronic cough, asthmatic cough, coughing blood, and lung atrophy with loss of voice. Taking 1-3 grams of this product, decocted in water as a tea substitute, has the effect of moistening the throat and improving the voice. Opera and singing performers often drink it, which benefits vocal health. American ginseng is also an excellent sports health product and can be taken by those who experience fatigue and weakness, dry mouth and thirst, and profuse sweating after strenuous activity.

8. Ginseng

Ginseng is a traditional Chinese medicine for replenishing qi and blood. Ginseng contains amino acids, multiple vitamins, saccharides, ginsenosides, ginseng acid, choline, and more. It has the effects of greatly tonifying original qi, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and regulating nutrition and nourishing the stomach. Because ginseng greatly tonifies original qi, it can often be used for shock and other conditions with weak breathing, cold limbs, weak pulse, and low blood pressure. In addition, because ginseng has a tonifying and strengthening effect, it can resist aging and is suitable for prolonged illness with body weakness, palpitations and uneasiness, spontaneous sweating and cold limbs, shortness of breath, collapse, heart failure, neurasthenia, and other conditions.

9. Pseudostellaria root

Traditional Chinese medicine holds that pseudostellaria root is neutral in nature and sweet and slightly bitter in taste. Its functions are to tonify the lungs and strengthen the spleen, and to benefit qi and promote fluid production. It can be used for poor appetite due to spleen qi deficiency, fatigue and emaciation in children; cough due to lung deficiency, spontaneous sweating and palpitations, thirst due to insufficient body fluids, and conditions such as dual deficiency of qi and yin after illness.

10. Codonopsis pilosula

Codonopsis pilosula is neutral in nature and sweet in taste. Its functions are to tonify the middle and benefit qi, and to promote fluid production and nourish blood. It is often used for fatigue and weakness due to qi deficiency, shortness of breath and palpitations, poor appetite and loose stools, thirst due to damage to both qi and fluids; sallow complexion and dizziness due to dual deficiency of qi and blood, as well as weakness after illness and malnutrition.

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