【Nature and flavor】Sour, sweet, warm in nature.
 [return through meridians] Returns to the lung, heart and kidney meridians.
 [Effects] Astringent, replenishing Qi and promoting salivation, nourishing the kidneys and calming the mind.
 [Indications] It is used for long-term cough and asthma, nocturnal emission and spermatorrhea, enuresis and frequent urination, long-term diarrhea, spontaneous sweating and night sweats, thirst due to loss of body fluid, internal heat and thirst, palpitations and insomnia.
 【Medical records】
 "Ben Jing": It is used to invigorate Qi, treat cough and shortness of breath, treat fatigue and weakness, replenish deficiency, strengthen Yin, and improve male essence.
 "Bielu": Nourishes the five internal organs, eliminates heat, and builds yin muscles.
 "Bencao Mengquan": For wind-cold and cough, the five southern flavors are the best; for weakness, fatigue, and injury, the five northern flavors are the best.
 "Bencao Tongxuan" says: It consolidates essence and restrains sweat.
 "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): Improves eyesight, warms the water organs, treats wind, relieves gas, helps digestion, treats cholera and cramps, treats stranguria and cold air, eliminates edema, relieves nausea, relieves abdominal distension, quenches thirst, eliminates restlessness and heat, detoxifies alcohol, and strengthens muscles and bones.
 【Predecessors release medicine】
 "Ben Cao Jing Shu" says: Schisandra chinensis is good for invigorating qi. Lungs are in charge of all qi, sourness can be used to absorb qi, and it can nourish the lungs, so it can invigorate qi. It is good for cough, reverse breathing, and shortness of breath. If qi is weak, it will be blocked and not return to the origin. Sourness can absorb it, and return qi to the origin, so cough, reverse breathing and shortness of breath will be eliminated. It can cure weight loss caused by overwork, replenish deficiency, strengthen yin, and benefit male essence.
 "Bencao Bielu" nourishes the five internal organs, removes heat, and regenerates the muscles in the yin. Schisandra chinensis is specifically used to nourish the kidney, and also nourishes the five internal organs. The kidney stores essence, and when the essence is abundant, the yin is strong. When the essence is restrained, the true qi returns to the origin, and the dantian is warm, the water and grain are fermented, the dregs are steamed and transformed into essence, then the essence is produced naturally, and when the essence is produced, the yin grows, so it is the treatment for the above-mentioned diseases.
 "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: Schisandra chinensis, "Shennong's Materia Medica" says it is warm, but nowadays it often causes deficiency heat, especially in children. "Yao Xing Lun" says it can remove heat, and "Rihuazi Materia Medica" says it can warm the water organs and remove irritability and heat. Later generations are confused by this. Now that it is used to treat lung deficiency and cold, it is no longer used to remove irritability and heat. It is also used as a tonic. It is used as medicine raw without removing the seeds.
 "Annotation on Treatise on Febrile Diseases": "Huangdi Neijing" says that if the lungs want to contract, eat sour food to contract them. The sourness of peony and Schisandra chinensis can contract the adverse qi and calm the lungs.