Description

Description
rhizomes in irregular masses, varying in size, apex with remains of stems and leaves. Texture slightly hard. Rhizomes bearing numerous,fascicular rootlets, 3-15 cm long, 0.1-0.3 Cm in diameter, frequently braided. Externally purplish-red or greyish-red, with longitudinal wrinkles. Texture flexible. Odour, slightly aromatic; taste, sweet and slightly bitter.

action: to eliminate phlegm and relieve cough.

indications: acute or chronic cough and asthma with copious
expectration; hemoptysis in consumptive disease.

referential advice:
this herb is used to moisten the lung, bring down adverse
rising of qi, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Since this herb
is moist rather than dry in nature, it is a main herb for resolving
phlegm and relieving cough, whether the cough is due to lung-heat
or lung-cold. In treating pulmonary tuberculosis with consumptive
fever due to deficiency of yin and cough with blood, the herb can
be used in combination with rhizoma anemarrhenae,bulbus fritillariae,
colla corii asini, etc. In treating long-lasting cough, the herb
can be used in combination with flos farfarae, radix stemonae,
etc. In treating cough and asthma without fever due to deficiency
of lung-qi, the herb can be used in combination with radix codonopsis
pilosulae, radix astragali seu hedysari, rhizoma zingiberis, etc.
in treating cough with profuse sputum due exogenous wind-cold,
the herb can be used in combination with herba schizonepetae,
rhizoma cynanchi stauntonii, pericarpium cirti reticulatae, etc.

tips
its primary effects are expectorant, not antitussive.

this statement has not been evaluated by the food and drug administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Unless used under instructions by a licensed herbalist.