Functions Clearing away heat and diarrhea, promoting the production of fluids and moistening dryness.
It is used in treating exogenous fever, high fever and thirst, lung-heat and dry cough, bone vapor and tidal fever, internal heat and thirst, and intestinal constipation.
Sichuan Beimu is the underground bulb of the perennial herbaceous plants of Lily family, such as Wu Hua Beimu, Curly Leaf Beimu, Luo Shi Beimu, Gansu Beimu, and Ribbon Sand Beimu. It is named because it is mainly produced in Sichuan, but it is also produced in Tibet, Gansu, Xinjiang, North China and Northeast China. Szechuan mother of pearl barley is slightly cold in nature and sweet and bitter in taste, into the heart and lung meridian, function of moistening the lungs, cough, phlegm, clinical often used with saxifrage, maitake, asparagus, mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, etc. for hot phlegm, dry phlegm, lung deficiency cough, cough, phlegm phlegm, phlegm, phlegm with blood, as well as the heart and chest stagnation, lung impotence, pulmonary carbuncle, such as treatment of the disease. However, cold phlegm, wet phlegm should be prohibited. Modern pharmacological research has confirmed that Chuanbeimu contains a variety of alkaloids such as Chuanbeimu alkaloids, Chuanbeimu alkaloids have a variety of pharmacological effects such as lowering blood pressure, excitation of the uterus.
Zhebeimu is the underground bulb of the perennial herb Zhebeimu of the lily family. Because the main production in Zhejiang and named, so referred to as zhebei. Because of its origin in Xiangshan, Zhejiang Province, it is also known as the elephant shellfish, referred to as elephant shellfish. Because of its appearance is larger than the Sichuan shellfish, so it is also known as big shellfish, referred to as big shellfish. At present, it is also produced in Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan and other places. Zhebei has a bitter taste and cold nature, entering the heart and lung meridian, its function is to clear away heat and resolve phlegm, disperse knots and detoxification, and it is often used clinically with ginseng, oyster, dandelion, smallpox pollen, forsythia, fresh rehmannia, xiakucuo, seaweeds, kombucha, curcuma, and so on, in the treatment of coughs of phlegm-heat-depleted lungs, and the treatment of carbuncle-poisoning and swelling pains, and the treatment of scrofula; and it is also combined with squid bone, calcinated corrugated seeds, baiji, lianlian, wu zhoujiu, zhuzhu, and Qing bianxia, and other medicines. It can cure stomachache, acid reflux and heartburn. Modern pharmacological research has confirmed that Zhebeimu contains Zhebeimu alkaloids and other alkaloids, Zhebeimu alkaloids can relieve bronchial smooth muscle spasm, reduce bronchial mucous membrane secretion, dilate the pupil, lower blood pressure, excitation of the uterus and many other pharmacological effects.
The earth shellfish, is the tuber of the perennial climbing plant pseudo-shellfish of the Cucurbitaceae family. It is mainly produced in Hebei, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places. It is cool and bitter in nature, and can clear heat and detoxify, reduce swelling and dissipate knots, and eliminate carbuncle and pus. It is often used in combination with oyster, smallpox pollen, coix seed, fritillary, soapberry, andrographis paniculata, xiakoucao, seaweed, and kombu for treating carbuncle, scrofula and phlegm nuclei, sores and swollen poisons, epidemic mumps, acute lymphadenitis, and lymphatic nodes and other diseases.
The above three types of shellfish are commonly used for 6 to 12 grams, because of its anti aconite, so it can not be used with aconite and its "brother" Tianxiong, epiphyllum.
These three types of shellfish are commonly used at 6 to 12 grams.