Chinese medicine considers Astragalus propinquus as a yang tonic.The root is used in herbal tea or soup. The plant strengthens energy, increases the number of stem cells to combat infections, Heals wounds, chronic respiratory infections, inflammation, helps fight cancer. The Astragalus are plants of the family Fabaceae belonging to the genus Astragalus (which seems to have been replaced by the genus Astragalus, which includes about 200 species of thorny shrubs of the family Fabaceae. This new genre was established in 1983 by the German botanist Dieter Podlech, Botanical Garden of Munich. Twenty of these species produce tragacanth gum).
