Asparagus is Asparagus, a plant in the Liliaceae family. Cold in nature, sweet in taste, slightly bitter. It has the effects of nourishing yin, clearing away heat, moistening the lungs and nourishing the kidneys. It is used to treat yin deficiency, fever, cough and vomiting blood, lung abscess, sore throat, thirst, constipation and other diseases.

Selected Prescriptions

① To treat cough: divide ginseng, asparagus (with the heart removed), and dried rehmannia glutinosa into equal parts. Make it into fine powder, refine it into honey and make it into pills as big as cherries, mix it in your stomach and take it. (Sancai Pills in "Rumen Shiqin")

② To treat hemoptysis and hemoptysis: 50 grams of Asparagus (blister, remove the heart), licorice (broiled), almonds (peeled, sharp, fried), shellfish 25 grams each of mother (remove the heart and stir-fry), white poria (peeled), donkey-hide gelatin, clam powder and stir-fry into beads). The upper part is fine powder, and the honey pill is as big as a marble. Take one pill and swallow it, and you can take ten pills day and night. ("Ben Shi Fang" Tianmendong Pills)

③ Treat women's asthma, irritability in the hands and feet, bone steaming, sleep sweating, dry mouth and drinking, and swollen face: Asparagus ten liang, Ophiopogon japonicus (to remove the heart) 400 grams, 1500 grams of raw rehmannia glutinosa (take the juice into paste).

④ For those with lung pruritus, cough, spitting, warm heart, dry throat but not thirsty: Pound Asparagus raw, take one dou of juice, one dou of wine, one liter of glutinous rice, four pieces of aster, add Fry the copper pot into pills and take it as big as an apricot pill, three times a day. ("Replenishing the Deficient Back of the Elbow")

⑤ To treat blood deficiency and dryness of the lungs, skin cracks, and symptoms of lung impotence, cough, pus and blood: Asparagus, no matter how many are newly dug, wash thoroughly, remove the heart, skin, and fine particles Pound and wring the juice to clarify it, filter it with a cloth and boil it into a paste over slow heat in a silver pot or casserole. Use one or two spoons each time and mix it with warm wine. ("Medical True Story" Asparagus Ointment)

⑥ To treat tonsillitis and sore throat: 15 grams each of Asparagus, Ophiopogon japonicus, Isatis root, Platycodon, and Mountain Tongue root, 10 grams of licorice, decoction in water and take . "Shandong Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook")

⑦ To treat dryness and blockage of the large intestine in the elderly: 40 grams of Asparagus, four liang each of Ophiopogon japonicus, Angelica sinensis, Asparagus kernels, and Rehmannia glutinosa. Boil the ointment, refine the honey and collect it. Take ten teaspoons of white soup every morning and evening. ("Fang Family Treasures")

⑧ Treatment of hernia: 25~50 grams of fresh Asparagus (peeled). Decoct in water and drink some wine for oral administration. ("Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine")

⑨ Lactation: Asparagus 100 grams. Stew served. ("Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine")

10. To treat dryness and heat in the lungs and stomach, cough with phlegm and astringency: divide Asparagus (to remove the heart) and Ophiopogon japonicus (to remove the heart) in equal parts. Boil the two flavors into the ointment, refine it into white honey, and swallow it with heat from time to time. (Erdong Ointment in "Zhang's Medical Tong")

11. To treat blood deficiency and dryness of the lungs, skin cracks, and symptoms of lung impotence, cough, pus and blood: No matter how many new asparagus are used, wash them thoroughly and remove the heart. , skin, pound finely, wring out the juice and simmer it into a paste over slow fire in a casserole. Use one or two spoons each time and mix with warm wine. ("Medical True Story" Tianmendong ointment)

12. Treatment of tuberculosis: 15 grams each of Duoermu, Baibu, Digupi, Ophiopogon japonicus 9 grams, and Zhiergen 30 grams. Eat by simmering water or stewing meat. ("Guizhou Herbal Medicine")

13. Asparagus to treat hematemesis and hemoptysis: (blister, remove the heart) 50 grams, licorice (broiled), almonds (peeled, sharpened, fried), Fritillaria ( Remove the heart and stir-fry), 25 grams each of white poria (peeled) and donkey-hide gelatin (crushed and stir-fried clam powder into beads). The upper part is fine powder, and the refined honey pills are as big as marbles. Take one pill and swallow it, and you can take ten pills day and night. ("Ben Shi Fang" Tianmendong Pills)

14. To treat women's asthma, irritability and heat in the hands and feet, bone steaming and sleep sweating, dry mouth and drinking, and swollen face: 10 liang of Asparagus, 8 liang of Ophiopogon japonicus, Three pounds of raw Rehmannia glutinosa (remove juice into paste). (Tianmendong Pills in "Bao Ming Ji")

15. Treat whooping cough: 15 grams each of Asparagus and Ophiopogon japonicus, 9 grams of Rhizoma Root, 6 grams of Trichosanthes trichosanthes, and 6 grams of Tangerine. Fry it twice, take it in 3 meals each time for 1 to 3 years old; take it in 2 meals each time for 4 to 6 years old; take it once for 7 to 10 years old. ("Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine")