Key points:,

1. Performance, efficacy and application of Radix Adenophorae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis and Carapax Trionycis;

Adenophora adenophora: Adenophora adenophora can be divided into Radix Glehniae and Radix Glehniae. Radix Glehniae is slightly bitter in taste and slightly cold in nature, and it mainly enters the lung and stomach meridians. Efficacy: nourishing yin and clearing lung, benefiting stomach and promoting fluid production. Radix Glehniae can nourish the yin of lung and stomach, clear away heat and promote fluid production. It can be used for dry cough due to lung heat due to lung yin deficiency, dry cough with little phlegm, or chronic cough due to fatigue, dry throat and hoarse voice; Symptoms such as thirst, dry throat, red tongue and scanty body fluid, noisy epigastric cavity, retching and dull pain caused by stomach yin deficiency or heat injury. Radix Adenophorae: Efficacy of nourishing yin and clearing lung, resolving phlegm and benefiting qi. Adenophora adenophora is sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature, and it belongs to lung and stomach meridians. Adenophora adenophora can also clear away the dryness and heat of the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough, and benefit qi, nourish the stomach and produce fluid. Dry cough due to lung yin deficiency, with less phlegm and sticky sputum, which is not easy to cough up; Stomach fluid deficiency, dry throat and mouth, red tongue and lack of fluid, or people who eat less and are not hungry can all be applied.

Ophiopogon japonicus: sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold. Main meridian of heart, lung and stomach. Ophiopogon japonicus is a commonly used medicine for heart, lung and stomach meridians, whether it is yin deficiency with heat or warm disease with pathogenic injury and yin. Efficacy: nourishing yin and moistening lung, benefiting stomach and promoting fluid production, clearing heart and removing annoyance. It is often used for thirst, dry throat and dry stool due to stomach yin deficiency or heat injury, and is often combined with Polygonatum odoratum, Adenophora adenophora, Scrophularia and Radix Rehmanniae. Deficiency of lung yin and dry cough with less phlegm or sticky phlegm are often combined with Ejiao and Almond. It is often combined with Radix Rehmanniae, Semen Ziziphi Spinosae and Rhizoma Coptidis for insomnia due to yin deficiency and heat, or heat pathogen disturbing the heart, dysphoria due to body heat and dry tongue.

Tortoise shell: sweet and salty, cold in nature, and belongs to liver, kidney and heart meridian. Efficacy: nourishing yin and suppressing yang, tonifying kidney and strengthening bones, consolidating menstruation and stopping bleeding, nourishing blood and nourishing heart. This product can not only nourish the yin of liver and kidney to relieve internal heat, but also subdue liver yang to calm internal wind, so it is an important medicine for nourishing yin and subduing yang. Night sweat due to bone steaming due to internal heat due to yin deficiency, dizziness due to yang hyperactivity due to yin deficiency, and hand and foot peristalsis due to wind-driven due to yin deficiency are commonly used, and they are often combined with Radix Rehmanniae, Concha Ostreae and Carapax Trionycis. This product can not only benefit kidney and strengthen bones, but also enrich blood and nourish yin. It is also necessary for weakness of waist and knees due to kidney deficiency, incompatibility of fontanel in children, and delayed teeth. It is often combined with Radix Rehmanniae Preparata and Achyranthes bidentata. This product can not only nourish kidney yin to consolidate chong ren, but also clear heat and stop bleeding. It is very effective for metrorrhagia and menorrhagia due to yin deficiency and blood heat, and it is often combined with Huang Bai and Xiang Fu. This product can nourish blood and tonify heart. It can be used for palpitation, insomnia and forgetfulness due to guilty conscience. It is often combined with Longgu and Polygala.

Carapax Trionycis: salty in taste and cold in nature. The main meridian belongs to liver and kidney. Efficacy: nourishing yin and suppressing yang, softening and resolving hard mass. This product is good at nourishing yin and clearing away heat, suppressing yang and calming wind. It is important for treating night fever due to yin deficiency, early cooling or bone steaming due to fatigue, dizziness due to yin deficiency and hyperactivity of yang, and endogenous wind movement due to fever. It is often combined with Artemisia annua, Gentiana macrophylla and Anemarrhena asphodeloides. It can also soften hard mass and disperse hard mass, and is often used for syndromes such as abdominal mass accumulation and malaria mother. It is often combined with Bupleurum, Cortex Moutan and Eupolyphaga Seu Steleophaga.

2. Efficacy and indications of Asparagus, Dendrobium, Polygonatum odoratum, Lily and Lycium barbarum:

Asparagus: It can nourish yin and moisten dryness, clear fire and promote fluid production. Indications: dry cough due to yin deficiency and lung heat or cough due to fatigue and hemoptysis; It can nourish kidney yin, clear away deficiency fire, promote fluid production and moisten dryness, so it also treats hot flashes, night sweats, nocturnal emission, thirst quenching due to internal heat, intestinal dryness and constipation due to deficiency of kidney yin.

Dendrobium: it can nourish yin and clear away heat, benefit the stomach and produce fluid. Indications: fever impairing body fluid, low fever and polydipsia, dry mouth and swallowing, and less red tongue coating; This product is also good at nourishing stomach yin and producing body fluid, so it can treat syndromes such as deficiency of stomach yin, thirst, dry throat, anorexia, nausea, noisy epigastric cavity, dull or burning pain, light tongue and little fur. This product can also tonify kidney, nourish liver, improve eyesight and strengthen bones and muscles, so it can also be used to treat kidney deficiency, blurred vision, kidney deficiency, flaccidity, weakness of waist and feet.

Polygonatum odoratum: it can nourish yin and moisten dryness, promote fluid production and quench thirst. Indications: dry cough with little phlegm due to yin deficiency and lung dryness; This product can also benefit the stomach, promote fluid production and quench thirst, so it is also used to treat fever, body fluid injury, restlessness, thirst and thirst. This product is good at nourishing yin without loving evil, so it can also be used for wind-heat syndrome caused by exogenous pathogenic factors due to yin deficiency.

Lily: It can nourish yin, moisten lung, relieve cough, clear heart and soothe the nerves. Indications: dry and hot cough due to lung yin deficiency, chronic cough due to fatigue, blood in phlegm, etc. It can also clear the heart and soothe the nerves. It can be used for syndromes of fever with residual heat, asthenia, restlessness, palpitation, insomnia and dreaminess. It is often combined with Anemarrhena asphodeloides and Rehmannia glutinosa to enhance the effects of nourishing yin, clearing the heart and calming the nerves.

Lycium barbarum L.: It can tonify liver and kidney and improve eyesight. Indications: nocturnal emission due to kidney deficiency, yin deficiency of liver and kidney, blurred vision and thirst.

3. Efficacy of Polygonatum sibiricum, Eclipta prostrata and Ligustrum lucidum:

Polygonatum sibiricum: It can nourish kidney and moisten lung, and tonify spleen and qi.

Eclipta prostrata: it can nourish the yin of liver and kidney, cool blood and stop bleeding.

Ligustrum lucidum: It can tonify the yin of liver and kidney, and the black beard can improve eyesight.

4. Use of Dendrobium, Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis and Carapax Trionycis:

Dendrobium: It is advisable to fry the decoction first.

Tortoise shell: It is advisable to fry the decoction first.

Carapax Trionycis: The decoction should be decocted first. Nourishing yin and subduing yang should be used in health, and softening and resolving hard masses should be used in vinegar.

5. Use of Adenophora adenophora, Dendrobium, Tortoise Shell and Trionyx sinensis:

Adenophora adenophora: Avoid taking for deficiency-cold syndrome. Anti-veratrum.

Dendrobium: Dendrobium can love evil, so that evil can not be reached, so warm diseases should not be used early; This product can also help damp, so it should not be used if the damp temperature has not yet turned into dryness.

Tortoise shell: people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not take it. Pregnant women should use it with caution.

Carapax Trionycis: Deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach, which is forbidden for loose stool and pregnant women.

6. Nansha participates in the performance functions of Radix Glehniae, Radix Ophiopogonis and Radix Asparagi, Tortoise Shell and Carapax Trionycis and other similar drugs.

* * * Similarities and differences

Nansha's participation in Glehnia littoralis: The performance and function of Nansha's participation in Glehnia littoralis are basically similar. However, in terms of nourishing yin, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, Radix Glehniae is inferior to Radix Glehniae. As far as expectorant effect is concerned; Then Radix Glehniae is superior to Radix Glehniae, and has the function of benefiting qi.

Ophiopogon japonicus and Asparagus: Both of them are cold and cool in nature, and both can nourish lung and yin, so they should always be used. However, Asparagus is stronger than Ophiopogon japonicus in cold and moistening, and is good at nourishing kidney yin and clearing away deficiency fire; Ophiopogon japonicus, on the other hand, is weak in cold moistening, preferring to nourish the stomach, promote fluid production, moisten the lungs and clear the heart to relieve annoyance. There are still some differences between the two in the action site.

Tortoise shell and turtle shell: both of them can nourish yin and clear away heat, subdue yang and stop wind, and are used to treat yin deficiency, fever, yin deficiency, hyperactivity of yang and yin deficiency, wind movement and other syndromes, so they should always be used. However, comparing their skills, there is a slight difference in the same, that is, tortoise shell is the main one for nourishing yin, while turtle shell is the longest one for latent yang. Therefore, the prescription that wants to nourish yin mainly uses tortoise shell; The prescription for relieving night fever and cooling early and steaming bones mainly uses turtle shell. Carapax Trionycis can soften hard mass and disperse hard mass, which is the specialty of Carapax Trionycis, but it has no such function. However, Tortoise shell can tonify kidney and bones, treat soreness and weakness of waist and knees, and has the functions of consolidating menstruation, stopping bleeding, nourishing blood and tonifying heart, etc., and turtle shell is rarely used.