Product Description
Medicinal parts
Dried tuberous root.
Taste
Sweet, bitter, cold in nature.
General meridian
It belongs to the lung and kidney meridians.
Effects
Nourishing Yin and moistening dryness, clearing the lung and generating body fluid.
Function
Main Treatment
For dry cough of the lung, coughing with sticky phlegm, soreness of the waist and knees, dampness and fever of the bones, internal heat and thirst, fever and thirst, dry throat and thirst, dryness and constipation of the intestines.
Related Compounding
1,Treating blood deficiency and lung dryness, skin splitting and coughing pus and blood in lung impotence: Wash the freshly dug asparagus, remove the heart and skin, pound it finely, extract the juice and simmer it in a casserole to make a paste, and take one or two spoonfuls of it with warm wine in empty heart. (The Medical Journal) Tianmen Dong Paste)
2, treatment of dry heat in the lung and stomach, phlegm and astringent cough: asparagus (remove the heart), maitake (remove the heart) and other points. The above two flavors boil paste, refining white honey to collect, from time to time containing heat swallowed. (Zhang's Medical General "two winter paste)
3,Treating cough of lung impotence, spitting saliva, warm heart. Thirsty pharynx is not dry: raw asparagus pounded to get a liter of juice, a bucket of wine, a liter of syrup, aster quadruple, people copper vessel on the soup decoction until you can pill. Take a pill as big as an apricot seed, three times a day. (Post Elbow Formula)
7,Dosage
6-12g.
8,Gathering and processing
Harvest in autumn and winter, wash, remove the stem base and fibrous roots, boil or steam in boiling water until the heart, remove the outer skin while hot, wash and dry.
9,Physiological characteristics
Climbing plant. Roots in the middle or near the end of the fusiform expansion, the expanded part of 3-5 cm long, 1-2 cm thick. Stems smooth, often curved or twisted, up to 1-2 m long, branches angled or narrowly winged. Leafy branches usually in clusters of 3, flattened or slightly sharply trigonous due to keeled midrib, slightly falcate, 0.5-8 cm long, ca. 1-2 mm wide; scalelike leaves on stems extend basally as stiff spines 2.5-3.5 mm long, spines on branches shorter or inconspicuous. Flowers usually each of 2 axillary, light green; pedicels 2-6 mm long, joints generally at middle, sometimes variable in position; male flowers: perianth 2.5-3 mm long; filaments not adnate to perianth segments; female flowers similar in size to male flowers. Berries 6-7 mm in diameter, red when ripe, with 1 seed. Fl. May-June, fr. August-October.
10. Growing environment
It is distributed from the southern part of Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces to the eastern, south-central, and southwestern provinces. It grows on mountain slopes, roadsides, under sparse forests, valleys or wastelands at altitudes below 1750 m. It is also found in Korea, Japan, and Laos. It is also found in Korea, Japan, Laos and Vietnam.
11,Physical properties of herbs
Long fusiform, slightly curved, 5 to 18 cm long, 0.5 to 2 cm in diameter, yellowish white to yellowish brown, translucent, smooth or with longitudinal wrinkles of varying depths, occasionally with remnants of grayish brown outer skin. The texture is hard or soft, sticky, horny-like in section, yellowish white in the middle column. Slight odor, sweet and slightly bitter taste.
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