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Kingdom: Plant

Origin in unofficial sources: Adenophora tetraphylla (Thunb.) Fisch.* Adenophora axilliflora Borb.; Adenophora pereskiaefolia (Fisch.) G. Don; Adenophora capillaris Hemsl.; Adenophora bulleyana Diels; Adenophora potaninii Korsh.; Adenophora polyantha Nakai; Adenophora lilifolioides Pax et Hoffm.; Adenophora stricta Miq.*

Use: Medicinal

Category: Supplementing agents / Yīn-supplementing agents

Properties: Sweet and slightly bitter; slightly cold.

Channel entry: Lung and stomach channels.

Actions and 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 and 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.

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

See: Shā shēn (沙参 Adenophorae seu Glehniae Radix, adenophora/glehnia [root])

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