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drug nameAsparagus Root
aliasTiandong
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[Variety Source]

This product is the root tuber of Asparagus Root (Asparagus cochinchinensis (Lour.) Mer r.), a perennial climbing herbaceous plant of the Lily Bulb family. Mainly produced in Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi and other places. Excavate it in autumn and winter, wash it, remove the stem base and fibrous roots, boil or steam it in boiling water until the core is penetrated, remove the outer skin while it is hot, wash it and dry it. Cut into thin slices and use raw.

[Property]

sweet and bitter, cold. act on lung and kidney channels.

[Efficacy]

Nourishing yin and moistening dryness, clearing fire and promoting body fluids.

[Indications]

  1. It is used for dry cough or hemoptysis caused by yin deficiency lung heat. It can enrich yin and clearing the lung. To treat dryness-heat cough, it is often used with Ophiopogon Tuber, Coastal Glehnia Root, Tendrilleaf Fritillary Bulb and the like; to treat hemoptysis, Or dry cough with sticky phlegm and blood in the phlegm, often used with Ophiopogon Tuber, Tendrilleaf Fritillary Bulb, Unprocessed Rehmannia Root Yellow, Donkey-hide Gelatin Same as.
  2. It is used for kidney yin deficiency, tidal fever night sweat, seminal emission, internal heat consumptive thirst, intestinal constipation due to yin deficiency with effulgent fire. It can nourish kidney yin, clear and reduce deficiency fire, produce fluid to moisten dryness. To treat kidney deficiency, tidal fever seminal emission, etc., it is often used with Prepared Rehmannia Root Huang, Anemarrhena, Phelloendron Bark, etc. To treat internal heat consumptive thirst, or Rebing damage to fluid thirst, it is often used with Ginseng, Unprocessed Rehmannia Root Huang, etc., add Wenbing Tiaobian Sancai Decoction; treats intestinal constipation caused by heat damage to fluid. It can be used with Unprocessed Rehmannia Root Huang, Scrophularia Root and other combinations of medicinals.

[Documentation]

  1. Yaoxing Lun: "lung qi means coughing, shortness of breath, lung atrophy means carbuncle and vomiting pus, removes heat, clears kidney qi, and relieves consumptive thirst."
  2. Bencao Huiyan: "Asparagus Root, moisturizing and enriching yin, is also a medicine for reducing fire and clearing the lungs. It regulates lung and kidney fire-dryness and causes diseases. For example, lung heat leaves scorch, causing flaccidity, carbuncle, hematemesis cough, Polydipsia is referred to as lower consumptive thirst and steaming bone fever, which are all symptoms that are necessary."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take 10-15g.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains Asparagus Root, myxoidin, β-sterol, 5-methoxymethylfurfural and a variety of amino acids. It has antitussive and dispelling phlegm effects; it is effective for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia and acute myeloid leukemia. The dehydrogenase in patients with nuclear cell leukemia has a certain effect and has anti-tumor activity; it has an inhibitory effect on a variety of bacteria.

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