Anemarrhena asphodeloides has the effects of clearing away heat and purging fire, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness. Can be used for treating exogenous fever, lung heat, dry cough, bone steaming, hot flashes, internal heat, thirst quenching, intestinal dryness and constipation.
1 Used for the symptoms of excess heat in lung and stomach such as fever, high fever, dysphoria and thirst, lung heat, asthma and cough, and yellow and thick phlegm. Anemarrhena asphodeloides is bitter and cold, which can clear up upper lung heat and middle stomach fire, and is suitable for lung and stomach heat. Often used with gypsum, it can enhance the heat-clearing and fire-purging effect of gypsum.
Used for fever due to yin deficiency, fatigue, cough and thirst. Anemarrhena asphodeloides can purge lung fire and nourish kidney water, so it can clear both excess heat and deficiency heat. Clinically, it is often used together with Cortex Phellodendri and combined with nourishing yin drugs such as Baizhi Dihuang Pill to treat yin deficiency, excessive fire and bone steaming due to hot flashes. It can also be combined with lung moistening drugs such as Radix Adenophorae, Radix Ophiopogonis and Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae. Used for dry cough due to lung deficiency. It can be used in combination with trichosanthis Radix, Ophiopogon japonicus, Radix Puerariae and other drugs for clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, and can be used for treating diabetes.