Aster (scientific name: Aster tataricus), also known as green aster, purple qian, green ox tongue flower (local name in Hebei), mountain cabbage, donkey plywood, donkey ear plant, soul-returning grass, soul-returning grass , pigtail, is a plant of the genus Aster in the Asteraceae family.
Aster is a perennial herb with a plant height of up to 1.8 meters. Most of the fibrous roots are clustered; the oblong basal leaves are large and fall off when they bloom in autumn. The stem leaves are narrow and alternate, and the upper leaves are linear.
The flower heads are densely grown on the top of the stems. The tongue-shaped flower baskets on the edges are lavender, and the central tubular flower is yellow with a single petal. The flowering period is from July to September, and the fruiting period is from September to October. The flowers are beautiful and elegant.
Aster is distributed in North Korea, Russia, Japan and Gansu, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Jilin, Shaanxi, southern China, Inner Mongolia and other places in mainland China. It grows at an altitude of 400 meters to 2,000 meters. It mostly grows in wetlands on shady slopes of low mountains, low mountain grasslands, mountaintops and swamps. It has been artificially introduced and cultivated.
The flower language of aster flowers is memories and sincere love.
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Aster tastes slightly bitter and pungent. It is warm in nature and mainly enters the lung meridian.
Aster is one of the commonly used traditional Chinese medicines. The roots and rhizomes are dried in the sun and then sliced ??and used raw or roasted in honey. It is pungent, sweet, bitter and warm in nature and returns to the lung meridian. Moisten the lungs and lower the qi, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough. It is used for asthma and cough with excessive phlegm, chronic cough, and hemoptysis due to fatigue. It is also used in prescriptions such as Zhisou Powder.
Modern research has confirmed that aster can inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Shigella dysenteriae, Typhimurium, Pseudomonas and Proteus Vibrio [2].
The main function of aster is to resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Although it is warm in nature, it can treat yin deficiency and lung heat, chronic cough due to lung deficiency, unpleasant phlegm, blood in the phlegm, cough and qi inversion, etc. Because it is pungent and can dissipate heat along with it, it is a sub-category. The method of governance.
Because the lungs will be deficient if you cough for a long time, and if you are deficient, you will be susceptible to external cold evil. Aster can be used to warm and treat cold, but it cannot be used exclusively or excessively. It is usually combined with some cold and cool medicines such as mulberry. Only by combining the skin, hundreds of parts, etc., will there be no bias.
Aster belongs to the blood-dispersing medicine in the lungs. It can be dispersed for coughing with blood, vomiting due to exhaustion, etc. It is an important medicine for treating bloody phlegm. Aster has pungent and dispersing properties, and when it enters the blood, it purges the blood qi. Therefore, it is not easy to use for dry coughs caused by lung and kidney qi and blood deficiency.
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