1 TASTE
Sweet and lightly cold
2 MERIDIANS
Lung and stomach
3 FUNCTIONS
1. To clear the lungs and tonify yin; 2. To strengthen the stomach and promote the production of body fluids
4 INDICATIONS
1. Deficient yin of the lungs with heat manifested as dry cough or cough with scanty sputum, hoarse voice from a chronic cough, dry throat and thirst. Glehnia root (Sha Shen [3]) is used with Ophiopogon root (Maidong) and Tendrilled fritillary bulb (Chuan Bei Mu [4]) 2. Body fluids consumed by febrile diseases manifested as dry tongue and poor appetite. Glehnia root (Shashen) is used with Ophiopogon root (Maidong), Fresh rehmannia root (Sheng Di Huang [5]) and Fragrant solomonseal rhizome(Yu Zhu [6])in the formula Yiwei Tang.
5 DOSAGE
10-15g(15-30g for the fresh herb)
6 COUTIONS
This herb is contraindicated in cases with deficient cold syndrome. Also, it counteracts the herb Black false bellebore(Lilu).
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