Chuanbeimu Chuanbeimu is the bulb of the lily plant Fritillaria cirrhosa D. Don, F. unibracteata Hsiao et K. C. Hsia, Gansu Beimu p. przewalskii Maxim. or Sosha Beimu F. delavayi Franch. The former three are habitually called "pine shell" and "green shell" according to different traits; the latter is called "stove shell". Mainly produced in Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and other places. Summer, fall two seasons digging, remove the roots, coarse skin, sun-dried, raw.

Bitter, sweet, slightly cold. It belongs to the lung and heart meridians.

Effects Clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, moistening the lung and relieving cough, dispersing lumps and subduing swelling.

Application

1. Cough due to deficiency labor, lung-heat and dry cough. This product is cold and slightly bitter, can clear the lung heat and phlegm, but also sweet and moist can moisten the lung cough, especially for internal injuries and prolonged cough, dry phlegm, hot phlegm of the evidence. Treatment of lung yin deficiency labor cough, cough with phlegm, often with Sha Shen, Ophiopogon, etc. in order to nourish yin and moisturize the lung phlegm cough; treatment of lung heat, lung dry cough, often with Zhimu in order to clear the lungs and moisten the dryness of phlegm cough, such as the two mother scattered (First Aid Immortal Fang).

2. Scrofula, carbuncle, carbuncle. This product can clear away heat, dissolve phlegm and disperse knots. To treat scrofula with phlegm and fire, it is often used with Xuan Shen and oyster, such as Scrofula Pill ("The Heart of Medicine"); to treat breast carbuncle and lung carbuncle with heat and toxicity, it is often used with dandelion and fritillaries to remove heat and toxins and eliminate swelling and knots.

Use and dosage: Decoction, 3-10g; 1-2g.

Note: It should not be used with aconite herbs. It is not suitable for people with cold spleen and stomach, or with dampness and phlegm.

Zhi Mu is the rhizome of Zhi Mu, a perennial herb of the lily family. It is mainly produced in Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia, with the best products from Yixian, Hebei. In Zhongjing's book, Zhimu is included in three squares in the Treatise on Typhoid Fever and four squares in the Essentials of the Golden Chamber.

Pharmacological characteristics of Zhimu bitter, sweet, cold. It enters the lung, stomach and kidney meridians. Effects: Clearing away heat and fire, nourishing Yin and moistening dryness. Mainly treats Yangming disease, syncopated yin disease, hot and hot disease, lily disease, malaria, calendar disease, fatigue disease and so on.

Symptoms of heart qi deficiency include palpitations, shortness of breath (aggravated by activity), spontaneous sweating, chest tightness, discomfort or pain, pallor, tiredness and fatigue, pale tongue, fat and tender tongue, white moss, and weak pulse.

What are the benefits of eating lilies

1, moisturize the lungs and relieve cough

The fresh lilies contain mucus, with moisturizing and clearing the role of Chinese medicine with the treatment of lung dryness or lung heat and coughing is often effective.

2, tranquilizer

Lily into the heart of the meridian, the nature of the cold, can clear the heart in addition to the annoyance, tranquilizer, used for the fever after the fever is not eliminated, trance, insomnia, dreamy, depressed, like sadness and crying and other diseases.

3, sedative hypnosis

Lily contains lily glycosides, sedative and hypnotic effect. Tests have proved that taking lily soup every night before sleep has significantly improved the role of sleep and can improve the quality of sleep.

4, beauty

Lily white delicate, fresh products rich in mucus and vitamins, skin cell metabolism is beneficial, eating lily, have a certain cosmetic effect.

5, gout attack adjuvant therapy

Lily is rich in colchicine, can be used for gout attack joint pain adjuvant therapy. Colchicine does not affect the excretion of uric acid, but through the inhibition of leukocyte activity and phagocytosis, reduce the formation of uric acid urate deposition, play a rapid reduction in inflammation, the role of effective pain relief, gout attacks due to acute joint inflammation has an adjunctive therapeutic effect.

6, anti-fatigue, anti-stress

The lily contains a variety of nutrients, such as minerals, vitamins, etc., which can promote the body's nutrient metabolism, so that the body's anti-fatigue, hypoxia-resistant ability to enhance the body at the same time to remove the body's harmful substances, to slow down the aging process.

7, to protect the gastric mucosa

The lily contains pectin and phospholipids, which can protect the gastric mucosa and treat gastric diseases.