Asparagus root Asparagus cochinchinensis
Medicines that tonify yinCold
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Traditional recorded function
Nourish yin, moisten dryness, clear fire, and promote fluid production
1. Used for dry cough or consumptive cough with hemoptysis due to Yin deficiency with Lung heat. 2. Used for tidal fever, night sweats, seminal emission, internal heat wasting-thirst, and constipation due to intestinal dryness in Yin deficiency with effulgent fire from insufficiency of Kidney Yin.
Nature & taste
SweetBitterCold
Meridians entered
LungKidney
Botanical source
Accepted nameAsparagus cochinchinensis (Lour.) Merr.
FamilyAsparagaceae
Herbal properties
ColdReinforcingDescendingDispersingMoistening
Found in these formulas
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