What are the pharmacological effects of Ophiopogon japonicus?

Ophiopogon japonicus, chrysanthemum, and wolfberry can be soaked in water and drank together. It has the effects of clearing the liver and improving eyesight, tonifying the spleen and replenishing qi, removing heat and clearing the heart, clearing fire, removing dryness, and nourishing the skin. The three of them are often soaked in water and drank, which is very beneficial to the body. I wish you good health.

Efficacy of Ophiopogon japonicus

1. Nourish yin and clear away heat to treat internal heat due to yin deficiency or fever that damages body fluids, upsets and thirst. 2. Moisturizes the lungs and relieves coughs. Treats coughs, thick phlegm, and qi inversion caused by dry heat that damages the lungs.

Uses

1. Clear the heart and remove troubles: suitable for symptoms of internal heat disturbing the heart. a. The pathogenic heat of febrile disease enters the camp, and the body is very hot at night and is irritable and restless. b. Heat damages qi and yin, upset, thirsty, sweating and physical fatigue. c. Insufficient heart yin, upset and insomnia, red tongue with little coating. 2. Nourish yin and moisten the lungs: It mainly treats symptoms of yin deficiency and dryness of the lungs, dry cough, dry cough, hemoptysis due to labor heat, etc. 3. Benefit the stomach and promote fluid production: good at treating symptoms such as insufficient stomach yin, dry tongue, thirst, lack of appetite and lack of hunger. In addition, it can also be used to treat patients with yin deficiency, intestinal dryness and constipation.

Functions and Indications

Nourishes yin and promotes fluid production, moistens the lungs and clears the heart. Used for dry cough due to dryness of lung. Deficiency and tuberculosis include cough, thirst in body fluids and wounds, irritability and insomnia, internal heat quenching thirst, intestinal dryness and constipation; pharyngeal diphtheria. It can be used to treat dry cough due to dryness of the lung, vomiting blood, hemoptysis, pulmonary fistula, lung abscess, fatigue, irritability and heat, thirst, febrile diseases, body fluid injury, dry throat and mouth, and constipation.

Usage and dosage

Oral administration: decoction, 2 to 4 qian; 6 to 12g. Or take it into pills or powder. It clears and nourishes the yin of the lungs and stomach and is mostly used to remove the heart. Nourishing yin and clearing the heart is mostly used to connect the heart.

Clinical application

Treatment of whooping cough: 20g each of Ophiopogon japonicus and Asparagus asparagus, 10g fresh bamboo leaves, 15g lily. Decoction in water. (Page 78 of "New Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines"). 1. For cough due to yin deficiency and dryness, hemoptysis, etc.: 9g each of Ophiopogon japonicus, Asparagus Asparagus, and Sichuan Fritillary scallop, 15g each of Adenophora and Radix Rehmanniae, decoct in water and take. 2. Fever and upset: 9g each of Ophiopogon japonicus, gardenia, and bamboo leaves, 15g of Rehmannia glutinosa, 6g of lotus seed heart, decoction in water and take. 3. Diabetes: 9g each of Codonopsis pilosula, Ophiopogon japonicus and Anemarrhenae, 15g each of Bamboo leaves and Trichosanthes, 12g of Rehmannia glutinosa, 6g each of Pueraria lobata and Huoshen, 3g each Schisandra chinensis and Licorice, decoction in water. 4. Atrophic gastritis: 9g each of Codonopsis pilosula, Ophiopogon japonicus, Adenophora adenophora, Polygonatum odoratum, Trichosanthes trichosanthes, 6g each of Black plum, Anemarrhena, Licorice, decoction in water. 5. Yin deficiency, internal heat, lack of fluid and thirst: 9g each of Ophiopogon japonicus and Dendrobium, 12g each of Polygonatum odoratum and Rehmannia glutinosa, decoction in water and take.