Shashen, mainly distributed in the northeast and Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and other places, is the dried root of Verticillium or Shashen of the Eustoma family, with the effect of nourishing yin and clearing heat, moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm, benefiting the stomach and generating fluids, and also treating pain in the heart and spleen, headache, and leucorrhoea in women. It is mainly used for treating bronchitis, whooping cough, lung-heat cough, and yellowish sputum.

1. Moistening the lung

Salsify is sweet, moist and slightly cold, it can tonify lung yin, moisturize and nourish the dryness of the lungs, and can be used to treat yin deficiency cough, lung-heat cough, dry cough with little sputum, dry pharynx, as well as hoarseness or coughing up blood.

2. Clearing heat

Salsify is sweet and cold to nourish yin, and has the effect of clearing heat and generating fluids, which can be used to treat dry mouth and throat, constipation, less food and vomiting, and red tongue with little fluids.

3. Anti-cough and expectorant

Sand ginseng contains β-sitosterol and palmitoyl-β-sitosterol, which have the functions of cough suppressant, expectorant, asthma and anti-inflammatory, and can be used for the treatment of bronchitis, whooping cough, coughing and coughing of lung heat, and coughing with yellowish phlegm.

4. Benefiting the stomach and generating fluids

Sasanqua belongs to the stomach meridian, can nourish the yin and stomach, clearing the stomach heat, commonly used in the stomach yin deficiency and heat caused by the dry mouth and drinking, hunger, nausea, noma, the tongue coating light peeling or the tongue is red with little fluids or gastric epigastric hidden pain, dry nausea, the stomach noisy and other discomforts.

5. Regulating immunity

Sasanqua can improve cellular immunity and non-specific immunity, inhibit humoral immunity. It has the function of regulating immune balance