English name RADIXOPHIOPOGONIS

Source This product is the dried root tuber of Ophiopogon japonicus (Thunb) ker-gavl. of Liliaceae. Digging in summer, cleaning, repeated exposure and stacking until 70% to 80% dry, removing fibrous roots and drying.

Characteristics This product is spindle-shaped, slightly pointed at both ends, with a length of1.5 ~ 3 cm and a diameter of 0.3 ~ 0.6 cm. The surface is yellowish white or light yellow, with fine longitudinal stripes. Flexible, yellow-white cross-section, translucent, small column. The gas is slightly fragrant, sweet and slightly bitter.

Processing to remove impurities, cleaning, moistening thoroughly, flattening, and drying.

Sexual taste and meridian tropism are sweet, slightly bitter and slightly cold. Heart, lung and stomach meridian.

Functions and indications: nourishing yin, promoting fluid production, moistening lung and clearing heart. It can be used for treating lung dryness, dry cough, cough due to consumptive tuberculosis, body fluid injury, thirst, vexation and insomnia, thirst due to internal heat, constipation due to intestinal dryness, and diphtheria.

Nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, moistening lung and relieving cough: used for fluid deficiency of lung and stomach yin deficiency, less thirst, dry cough and hemoptysis; Heart-yin deficiency, palpitation and palpitation, and body fluid injury caused by heat in the late stage of fever. Combined with Radix Adenophorae and Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae, it can treat dry cough due to lung yin deficiency.

Usage and dosage 6 ~12g.

It is advisable to avoid diarrhea due to spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, and people with phlegm, dampness and turbidity in the stomach and sudden cold and cough are forbidden to take it.

Store in a cool and dry place to prevent moisture.

Remind you: Ophiopogon japonicus, a Chinese herbal medicine, comes from the Internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before using it.