What are the effects of Zengye Decoction?
Zengye Decoction is a traditional Chinese medicine prescription with the efficacy of enhancing fluid production and nourishing dryness. It belongs to prescriptions that nourish yin and moisten dryness, mainly composed of Radix Scrophulariae, Radix Ophiopogonis, and Radix Rehmanniae Preparata.
In this prescription, Radix Scrophulariae serves as the principal herb. It is bitter and salty in taste, and cold in nature. It has the efficacy of clearing heat, nourishing yin, and promoting fluid production, which can activate kidney water to nourish intestinal dryness. Radix Rehmanniae Preparata serves as the deputy herb. It is sweet and bitter in taste, and cold in nature. It has the effects of clearing heat, nourishing yin, strengthening water, and promoting fluid production. Radix Ophiopogonis is sweet and cold in nature, serving as the adjuvant herb. It can nourish the lungs, enhance fluid production, promote fluid production, and nourish the intestines to moisturize dryness.
The combination of Radix Scrophulariae, Radix Ophiopogonis, and Radix Rehmanniae Preparata can clear heat by nourishing yin and enhancing fluid production, thereby moistening intestinal dryness. Therefore, Zengye Decoction can exert the efficacy of enhancing fluid production and nourishing dryness. It is commonly used to treat Yangming warm diseases, constipation due to fluid depletion and intestinal dryness, manifested as dry and hard feces, thirst, dry and red tongue, thin and rapid pulse (pulse becomes narrower and finer with an increased rate), or deep and weak pulse, etc.
The adverse reactions and contraindications of Zengye Decoction are not yet clear clinically, but it is known that patients allergic to the components of this medicine should be prohibited from taking it. For patients who meet the indications of this medicine, if they need to take this prescription, they should follow the professional doctor's advice for syndrome differentiation and standardized treatment. They should not take the medicine without authorization to avoid delaying the condition.
