Chinese medicine Asparagus has properties and flavors: sweet, bitter, cold. Returns to the lung and kidney meridians. This product is sweet and nourishing, relieves bitterness and can clear away cold. It enters the lung and kidney meridian, making it a clear, nourishing and smooth product. It not only moistens the lungs and relieves coughs, clears the lungs and reduces fire, but also nourishes the kidneys and nourishes yin, produces body fluids and quenches thirst, clears away intestinal dryness and relieves constipation, and is good at treating syndromes of yin deficiency and excess fire. Efficacy: Nourishes yin and reduces fire, clears the lungs and moisturizes dryness, moistens the intestines and relieves constipation. Indications: (1) Lung-heat dryness cough, sudden cough with sticky phlegm, hemoptysis due to labored cough. (2) Bone steaming, hot flashes, thirst in body fluids and wounds, yin deficiency and thirst. (3) Intestinal dryness and constipation. Usage and Dosage Oral administration: decoction, 6~12g; or take into pills and powder. Note on use: This product is very cold and moist, so people with spleen and stomach deficiency, little food and loose stools should take it with caution. Origin: Mainly produced in Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi and other places. Harvesting and processing: Excavate in autumn and winter, wash, remove stem base and fibrous roots, boil or steam in boiling water until the core is penetrated, remove the outer skin while hot, wash and dry. Character identification: This product is long spindle-shaped, slightly curved, 5 to 18 cm long and 0.5 to 2 cm in diameter. The surface is yellow-white to light yellow-brown, translucent, smooth or with longitudinal wrinkles of varying depths, with occasional remaining gray-brown skin. It is hard or soft, sticky, with a horny cross-section and a yellow-white central column. The smell is slight, the taste is sweet and slightly bitter. Decoction pieces are thin, round-shaped pieces. The cut surface is light yellowish white or light brown, horny, translucent, sticky, with a yellowish white center. The smell is slight, the taste is sweet and slightly bitter. Disclaimer: The above content comes from the Internet, and the copyright belongs to the original author. If there is any infringement of your original copyright, please inform us and we will delete the relevant content as soon as possible.