Wiseman’s Chinese Medical Database

nán shā shēn / 南沙参 / 南沙參 / adenophora [root]

Latin pharmacognostic name: Adenophorae Radix

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Origin: Plant

Use: medicinal

Category: Supplementing agents / Yīn-supplementing agents

Properties: Sweet and slightly bitter; slightly cold.

Channel entry: lung and stomach channels.

Indications:

• Nourishes yīn, clears the lung, and dispels phlegm: Lung dryness or lung heat cough; yīn vacuity taxation cough.
• Boosts the stomach and engenders liquid: Stomach yīn vacuity.

  Dosage & Method:

  Oral: Decoct 10–15g (fresh product 15-60g) or use in pills and powders. The fresh product has a strong heat-clearing liquid-engendering action, and so isis mainly used for damage to liquid by exuberant heat.

  Warning:

  Clashes with 藜芦. Contraindicated in spleen-stomach vacuity cold and cold rheum cough and panting.

  See also:

  shā shēn (沙参 Adenophorae seu Glehniae Radix, adenophora/glehnia [root])