Xi Yang Shen [1]

1 TASTE
Bitter, slightly sweet and cold.

2 MERIDIANS
Heart, lung and kidney

3 FUNCTIONS
1. To replenish qi and promote body fluids; 2. To nourish yin and clear heat.

4 INDICATIONS
1. Deficient yin in the lungs and excessive fire manifested as asthma and cough with bloody sputum. American ginseng (Xi Yang Shen [3]) is used with Ophiopogon root (Maidong), Donkey hide gelatin (E Jiao [4]), Anemarrhena rhizome (Zhi Mu [5]) and Tendrilled fritillary bulb (Chuan Bei Mu [6]).2. Exhaustions of qi and yin from febrile disease manifested as thirst, irritability, shortness of breath and deficient pulse. American ginseng Dendrobium (Shi Hu [7]) and Ophiopogon root (Maidong).

5 DOSAGE
3-6 g

6 COUTIONS
This herb should be cooked separately, then added into the decoction of other. It is contraindicated for a person with cold and dampness in the stomach, It counteracts the herb Black false bellebore (Lilu). When frying or decocting, pots made from iron should not be used.