The efficacy and function of Anemarrhena asphodeloides, giving you the most complete analysis

Traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods are becoming more and more popular. Chinese medicine treatment is not only effective but also has very few side effects. Anemarrhena asphodeloides is a common Chinese herbal medicine that can clear away heat and reduce fire, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, and can also treat constipation.

1. Other names: Lianmu, Shuixu, Chuandilong

2. Category: Heat-clearing and fire-purging medicine

3. [Harvesting, processing and storage] It can be harvested in spring and autumn, the fibrous roots and mud are removed, and it is dried in the sun. It is commonly known as "hairy Anemarrhena". Alternatively, the outer skin can be removed and dried in the sun. Place in a ventilated and dry place away from moisture, ready for slicing and use as medicine, either raw or roasted in salt water.

4. Function: clearing away heat, purging fire, promoting body fluid and moistening dryness.

5. It is mainly used for exogenous febrile diseases, high fever and thirst, lung heat and dry cough, bone steaming and hot flashes, internal heat and thirst, and intestinal dryness and constipation.

6. Application

1. Used for fever and thirst. This product is sweet, cold and moist in nature. It is good at clearing away the excess heat in the lungs and stomach, and relieving restlessness and quenching thirst. It is used for symptoms of lung and stomach heat such as excessive evil heat in febrile diseases, high fever, thirst, and a strong pulse. It is often used together with gypsum, such as Baihu Decoction.

2. Used for cough due to lung heat and dry cough due to yin deficiency. This product can clear away lung fire, nourish yin and moisten the lungs. It is used for lung heat cough, yellow and sticky phlegm, often used together with Trichosanthes kirilowii, Fritillaria thunbergii, and Arisaema consanguineum; or for yin deficiency and dry cough, dry cough with little phlegm, it is often used together with Fritillaria thunbergii, such as Ermu Powder.

3. Used for bone steaming and hot flashes. This product can nourish kidney yin, moisten kidney dryness and relieve bone steaming, so it has the effect of nourishing yin and reducing fire. It is used for symptoms such as yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, bone steaming, hot flashes, night sweats, and irritability. It is often used together with Phellodendron chinense and added to yin-nourishing medicines to enhance the effects of nourishing yin and reducing fire, such as Zhibai Dihuang Pills.

4. Used for thirst due to yin deficiency, dry intestine and constipation. This product has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, promoting body fluid and quenching thirst. It is used to treat diabetes caused by internal heat damaging body fluids and thirst leading to drinking. It is often used together with Radix Trichosanthis, Radix Puerariae, etc., such as Yuye Decoction. It is used for constipation caused by dry intestines, and is often used together with raw Polygonum multiflorum, Chinese angelica, and hemp seed, and it also has the effect of moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements.