This product is the rhizome of the perennial herb Anemarrhena (Anemarrhena asphodeloides Bge.) of the Asparagus Root family (formerly classified as Lily Bulb family and Agaveceae). Mainly produced in Hebei, Shanxi and Northeast China. It can be excavated in spring and autumn, and the stems and fibrous roots are removed and dried to become hair Anemarrhena, and the skin is peeled off and dried to become Anemarrhena meat. Slices are used as medicine, used raw or boiled in salt water.

[Property]

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

[Efficacy]

clearing heat and purging fire, nourishing yin and moistening dryness.

1. For Rebing polydipsia. This product is sweet, cold and moist in nature. It is good at clearing the lungs and stomach qi. Used for warm febrile disease, syndrome/pattern of heat invading lung and stomach, high fever, polydipsia, heavy pulse and other syndrome/pattern of heat invading lung and stomach. Often used with Gypsum for mutual reinforcement, such as White Tiger Decoction.
2. Used for lung heat cough and yin deficiency dry cough. This product functions to clear lung fire, nourish yin and moistening lung. For lung heat cough with yellow and sticky phlegm, it is often used with Trichosanthis Fruit, Tendrilleaf Fritillary Bulb, Bile Arisaema; or Yin deficiency means dry cough, dry cough means less phlegm. Mostly used together with Fritillaria Bulb, such as Anemarrhena and Fritillaria Powder.
3. It is used for steaming bone fever and tidal fever. This product can nourish kidney yin, moisten kidney dryness and reduce steaming bone fever, so it has the effect of nourishing yin and reducing fire. It is used for yin deficiency with effulgent fire, steaming bone fever, tidal fever, night sweat, upset and other symptoms. It is often used together with Phelloendron Bark and mixed into yin-tonifying medicinal to strengthen nourishing yin and reducing The effect of fire, such as Anemarrhena, Phelloendron and Rehmannia Pill.
4. It is used for yin deficiency consumptive thirst and intestinal dryness constipation. This product has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, promoting fluid production to quench thirst. It is used to damage internal heat to fluid and thirst to induce consumptive thirst. It is often used with Snakegourd Root, Pueraria Root, etc., such as Jade Fluid Decoction. Used for constipation of intestinal dryness, often used with raw multiflorum, Chinese Angelica, Hemp Seed, and moistening intestines to relieve constipation.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Maintains consumptive thirst and heat, removes pathogenic qi, edema of limbs, water, and replenishes insufficient tonifying qi."
2. "Medicinal Methods": "Relief without roots. "The kidney fire is used to treat steaming bone fever, relieve the heat of consumptive disease, and nourish the yin of the source." Enriching yin, on the other hand, clears lung metal and purges fire, which is the second qi aspect medicine."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 6~12g. clearing heat and purging fire are suitable for raw use; nourishing yin and reducing fire are suitable for roasting with salt water.

This product is cold in nature and moist in nature, and has the disadvantage of smoothing the intestines, so people with spleen deficiency and loose stool should not use it.

[Modern Pharmacology]

The rhizome of this product contains a variety of steroidal saponins and a large amount of mucilage.

• Anemarrhena animal experiments have proven that it has obvious antipyretic, dispelling phlegm, diuretic and hypoglycemic effects;
• decoction has varying degrees of inhibitory effects on dysentery bacilli, pneumococci and other pathogenic bacteria.