Asparagus root is a perennial climbing herb of Liliaceae, which is mainly produced in Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi and other places. Ophiopogon japonicus is the root tuber of Liliaceae perennial herb Ophiopogon japonicus, which is mainly produced in Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places and is used for living.
Similarities: both of them are sweet and bitter, cold in nature, and belong to lung and stomach meridians. It can nourish lung yin, moisten lung dryness, clear lung heat, nourish stomach yin, clear stomach heat, promote fluid production and quench thirst.
For constipation due to intestinal dryness caused by heat pathogen damaging body fluid, it can also increase fluid to moisten the intestine to relieve constipation. In the treatment of lung and stomach dryness and heat, it is often necessary to enhance the curative effect. However, those who have diarrhea due to spleen-stomach deficiency and cold and cough due to exogenous wind-cold should avoid using them.
Differences: Asparagus is bitter and cold, tonifying lung and medical education | net collecting and sorting out the yin of stomach is stronger than Ophiopogon japonicus, which is not good for coughing and expectoration. It can also stop cough and eliminate phlegm, and can enter the kidney meridian to tonify kidney yin and reduce kidney fire, which can cure the symptoms of kidney yin deficiency and yin deficiency and excessive fire. Recently, it is often used to treat breast tumors, which has a better effect on breast lobular hyperplasia, but it is greasy and should be paid attention to.
Ophiopogon japonicus is slightly bitter and cold, and its ability to nourish stomach yin and clear stomach heat is weak, but its weakness is that it is less greasy, and it can also enter the heart meridian to replenish heart yin and clear the heart.