Anemarrhena asphodeloides, alias Lianmu, Xu Shui and Chuanlumbricus, is used for clearing away heat and purging fire, and is mainly used for treating exogenous fever, hyperpyrexia and polydipsia, dry cough due to lung heat, hot flashes due to bone steaming, thirst due to internal heat, intestinal dryness and constipation. It is the dried rhizome of Anemarrhena asphodeloides. Liliaceae. Excavate in spring and autumn, remove fibrous roots and sediment, and dry in the sun. Because there are many hairy roots, it is commonly known as "Anemarrhena asphodeloides".

Efficacy:

1. Used for fever and polydipsia. This product is sweet and cold, moistening dryness, clearing lung, stomach and qi, dispersing excess heat and quenching thirst. It is used for syndrome of excess heat in lung and stomach, such as excessive pathogenic heat, excessive heat, polydipsia, and heavy pulse. Often used with gypsum, such as white tiger soup.

2. Used for lung heat cough and yin deficiency dry cough. This product has the functions of clearing away lung fire, nourishing yin and moistening lung. For cough due to lung heat and sticky phlegm, it is often used with Fructus Trichosanthis, Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae and Arisaema cum bile. Or dry cough due to yin deficiency and less phlegm, it is usually used with Fritillaria, such as Ermu Powder.

3. It is used for quenching thirst due to yin deficiency and constipation due to intestinal dryness. This product has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening dryness, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. For relieving thirst caused by internal heat, it is often combined with Trichosanthis Radix and Radix Puerariae, such as Yu Ye Decoction. For constipation due to intestinal dryness, it is often used with Polygonum Multiflori Radix, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Fructus Cannabis to moisten intestines and relieve constipation.

Medicinal value of Anemarrhena asphodeloides. 4: Used for bone steaming hot flashes.

4. Used for bone steaming hot flashes. This product can nourish kidney yin, moisten dryness and reduce bone steaming, so it has the effect of nourishing yin and reducing fire. It can be used for treating yin deficiency and excessive fire, bone steaming, hot flashes, night sweats, and vexation. It is often combined with Cortex Phellodendri and nourishing yin drugs to strengthen the effect of nourishing yin and reducing fire, such as Baizhi Dihuang Pill.

Characteristics of Anemarrhena asphodeloides;

This product is strip-shaped, slightly curved, slightly flat and occasionally branched, with a length of 3 ~ 15 cm and a diameter of 0.8 ~ 1.5 cm, and a yellowish stem and leaf residue at one end. The surface is yellow-brown to brown, with grooves on it, and the annular nodes are closely arranged, and the nodes are densely covered with yellow-brown residual leaves, which grow from both sides of the rhizome to the top; The lower part is convex, slightly shrunk, with concave or convex punctate root marks. Hard, easily broken, yellow-white cross section. Slight gas, slightly sweet, slightly bitter, sticky to chew.

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