| English
Name |
| Lily
Bulb |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Picture |
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| Origin |
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Lily
bulb is the dried fleshy scale leaf of Lilium lancifolium
Thunb., Lilium brownii F.E. Brown var. viridulum
Baker or Lilium pumilum DC. |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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This
herb is sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature, and is
distributed to the Heart and Lung channels. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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| Precaution |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a ventilated dry place. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Elongated
elliptical, 2~5cm long, 1~2cm wide, 3~4mm thick at middle.
Externally whitish, pale brownish-yellow or purplish, with
several longitudinal and paralled white vascular bundles.
Apex somewhat acute, base relatively broad, margins thin,
undulate, slightly curved inwards. Texture hard and fragile,
fracture relatively even, horny. Odorless; taste, slightly
bitter.
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ACTION |
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To nourish
yin and moisten the lung, and to tranquilize the mind. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Deficiency
of yin with chronic cough and bloody sputum; fidgetiness,
palpitation, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep and absent-mindedness. |
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.
Moistening the lung to relieve cough
In treaing cough with bloody sputum due to dryness of the
lung, the herb can be made into soft extract with Flos Farfarae,
of used in combination with Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Ophiopogonis,
Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae, Radix Scrophulariae, etc.
2. Clearing away
heat from the heart to calm the mind
In treating restlessness of deficiency type, palpitation,
insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, etc. at the late stage of
febrile disease when heat is not completely cleared away,
the herb is often used in combination with Rhizoma Anemarrhenae
or Radix Rehmanniae.
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