Anemarrhena asphodeloides
Nature and taste: bitter, sweet and cold
Meridian tropism: lung, stomach and kidney meridians
can clear excess heat and deficiency heat, and are good at nourishing yin and moistening dryness.
steaming bone with cortex phellodendri: the best treatment for yin deficiency and excessive fire.
1. Anemarrhena asphodeloides is bitter and cold, which can clear lung heat in the upper part and stomach fire in the middle part, and is used for the symptoms of excess heat in lung and stomach such as febrile disease, high fever, irritability, thirst and heavy pulse.
2. lung heat, asthma and cough, yellow and thick phlegm: gypsum can enhance the effect of clearing heat and purging fire.
3. For hyperactive fire due to yin deficiency and dry cough due to yin deficiency, use 1-2g.
4. stomach heat and thirst quenching;
5. Edema: Anemarrhena asphodeloides purging the heat of bladder, treating edema with Cortex Phellodendri and Cortex Cinnamomi, and treating heat accumulation in bladder, urinary incontinence and small abdominal distension (Tongguan Powder in Lanshi Secret Collection).
urinary incontinence: frequency of urinary incontinence, pulse string number/flood number, which belongs to hyperactivity of kidney fire. Anemarrhena asphodeloides is used alone for 35 yuan, and 2 doses are cured (Fan Fuquan). Obstruction of prostatic hypertrophy: Tongguan Powder is very effective in treating senile prostatic hypertrophy, 1-2g
6. Intestinal dryness and constipation, laxative: phlegm is accumulated in the lungs, lung qi is blocked, and Anemarrhena asphodeloides is added to attack phlegm, and it will be easy to defecate (when people escape).