Medicinal name: Zhebei

Alias: Zhebeimu, Elephant Shell, Elephant Shellfish, Dabeimu

Latin name: Bulbus Fritillariae Thunbergii

English name: Bulb of Thunberg Fritillary

Latin botanical and animal mineral name: Fritillaria thunbergii Miq. [F.collicola Hance; F. verticillata Willd. Var. thunbergii (Miq.) Baker]

Efficacy Classification: Phlegm-compressing medicine 1, used for wind-heat, dry-heat or phlegm-heat coughs. This product is similar to the work of Sichuan Beimu but favors bitter drainage. It is often combined with Sang Ye and Qian Hu to treat wind-heat cough. Treatment of phlegm-heat cough, often with gua vulgaris, Zhimu and so on.

2, used for scrofula, gall tumors, canker sores and swollen poisons, carbuncles, etc.. This product can be bitter drainage and clearing heat and toxins, open and disperse the knot, the treatment of scrofula and phlegm nucleus, accompanied by XuanShen, oyster, etc., such as eliminating scrofula pill. For gall tumors, it is used with seaweed and kombu. For the treatment of sores and carbuncles, with forsythia, dandelion and so on. For lung carbuncle, with Fritillaria, Rehmannia and others. Cold phlegm, damp phlegm and those with cold spleen and stomach should take with caution. Anti-Aconite.