1 TASTE
Sweet and neutral
2 MERIDIANS
Lung and stomach
3 FUNCTIONS
1. To nourish the yin and moisten the lungs; 2. To promote the production of body fluids and strengthen the stomach
4 INDICATIONS
Dry cough with scanty sputum due to lung yin deficiency or thirst and intense hunger due to stomach yin deficiency. Fragrant solomonseal rhizome (Yu Zhu [3]) is used with Glehnia root (Sha Shen [4]), Ophiopogon root (Maidong)and Asparagus root (Tian Men Dong [5])
5 DOSAGE
10-15g
6 COUTIONS
This herb is contraindicated in cases with deficient spleen or phlegm-damp.
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