The properties are sweet and slightly cold. Into the stomach, kidney meridian.

1.Nourishing the stomach and generating fluids is used in fever with fluid injury, thirst, dark tongue and moss, and is often used with Radix et Rhizoma Shengdi, Rhizoma Pinelliae, Maitake, etc.; it is used in thirst, easy to hunger and eat, dry mouth and drink, and is often used with Rhizoma Pinelliae, Radix et Rhizoma Serratiae, Maitake, etc., in the formula such as Dispelling Vexation and Nourishing the stomach soup; it is used in gastric inflammation with fire, rotting of the pharynx, restlessness, and thirst, and is often used with Radix et Rhizoma Shengdi, Rhizoma Rhinoceros horn, Gypsum, and Maitake.

2. Nourishing yin and clearing heat is used for heat disease and fluid injury, deficiency fever, slight thirst, spontaneous sweating, often used with Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Radix Bovis, Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati, etc.; used for yin deficiency of the liver and kidney, dimming of vision, dizziness and darkness of the eyes, often used with Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Lycium barbarum, Chrysanthemum, etc., prescription Dendrobium Night Glow Pill; used for deficiency of the liver and kidney, impotence of the muscles and bones, lumbar acidity, weakness of the feet, often used with Radix Polygonati Odorati, Papaver somniferum, Lycium Barbarum, etc.

The dosage is 6~15 grams, double the fresh product, into the soup should be decocted first. Fresh dendrobium is especially powerful in clearing heat and generating fluids, and dry dendrobium is worse, so it is better to use fresh dendrobium for heat injury to fluids and tongue redness and thirst; and it is better to use dry dendrobium for general deficiency of yin and thirst and tongue dryness.

According to the function of dendrobium to clear heat and nourish yin, although it can nourish the stomach and benefit the kidneys, but the clinical is to clear the stomach heat and nourish the stomach yin. Clearing heat but not too cold, nourishing yin but not on the side of nourishing, is its strength.

Dendrobium more varieties, the efficacy of slightly different, Sichuan dendrobium stomach fluid force is weak, suitable for heat evil injury to the fluid of the light disease; dendrobium clearing heat and nourishing yin role stronger; fresh dendrobium clearing heat and nourishing the effectiveness of the fluid, suitable for the fluid deficit of the heavier; Huoshan dendrobium nourishing yin nourishing fluid efficacy of the calm, suitable for the elderly weak gastric fluid insufficient and should not be too cold people.

The identification of drugs Dendrobium, smallpox pollen are able to promote the production of fluids to quench thirst and nourish yin and clear heat, beneficial to the stomach and lungs, so in the lungs and stomach yin deficiency is often compatible with the use of. However, Dendrobium can enter the kidney meridian, nourish the kidney and benefit the essence, and its treatment in the lungs, stomach and kidney; while smallpox pollen is partial to the lungs and stomach, and the power of generating fluids and quenching thirst is especially strong, and it can reduce phlegm and fire, expel pus, and reduce swelling.