Efficacy and effects of asparagus

Asparagus is sweet, bitter, cold, and belongs to the lung and kidney meridians. It has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening the lung and clearing the heart, removing dryness and lowering fire, mainly treating yin deficiency and fever, dry lung cough, deficiency cough, thirst, insomnia, internal heat and thirst, intestinal dryness and constipation, lung impotence, lung carbuncle, diphtheria, etc. Let's take a look at the specific effects and contraindications of asparagus.

Nourishing Yin and generating body fluid

Asparagus has a strong sweet, bitter and cold nature, and its effect of nourishing lung yin and clearing lung heat is stronger than that of maitake, yucca and other similar drugs. It is suitable for dry cough with little phlegm, coughing up blood, sore throat and mute voice due to Yin deficiency and heat in the lung. It can also stop cough and dispel phlegm in cough and phlegm. It is often used together with Mai Dong, Sha Shen and Chuan Bei Mu in the treatment of lung Yin deficiency and internal heat.

Nourishing kidney yin and lowering deficiency fire

Asparagus can nourish kidney yin and subdue deficiency fire. It is suitable for dizziness, tinnitus, soreness of the waist and knees due to deficiency of kidney yin, and dampness and fever due to deficiency of yin and fire, such as internal heat and thirst. For deficiency of kidney yin, dizziness and tinnitus, soreness of the waist and knees, it is often used together with rehmannia, wolfberry and hyssop to nourish the kidney and benefit the essence and strengthen the tendons and bones. In cases of yin deficiency and fire, with hot and steamy bones, it is advisable to use with the products that nourish yin and lower fire, such as Radix et Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Radix et Rhizoma Macrocephalae, Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati and Radix et Rhizoma Phellodendron. For the treatment of kidney yin deficiency, internal heat and thirst, it can be used together with nourishing yin and tonifying kidney products such as Sheng Di Huang, Shan Yao, and Female Zhen Zi. For coughing and hemoptysis due to deficiency of lung and kidney yin, it can be used together with Sheng Di, Xuan Shen and Chuan Bai Mu to nourish yin and clear the lung and cool the blood to stop coughing.

Benefiting the stomach and generating body fluid, clearing stomach heat

This product also has a beneficial effect on the stomach and the production of body fluid, helping to relieve loss of appetite, thirst and constipation due to heat-related injury to the body fluid. For those who suffer from loss of appetite and thirst due to injury to Qi and Yin, it is advisable to combine it with raw licorice and ginseng to nourish Yin and promote the production of Qi. For those who suffer from constipation due to deficiency of fluid and intestinal dryness, it is recommended to use with raw earth, angelica, raw shouwu, etc., which nourish yin, promote fluid and moisten the intestines.

Laxative for bowel movement

Asparagus is useful for dry stools and constipation caused by internal heat, especially for constipation caused by yin deficiency.

Anti-tumor

In vitro tests have shown that the root tuber of asparagus has anti-tumor effects. Asparagus has been shown to inhibit leukocyte dehydrogenase in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, chronic granulocytic leukemia and acute monocytic leukemia, and it can inhibit the respiration of leukocytes in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Antibacterial

Asparagus root tuber also has excellent antibacterial efficacy. In vitro decoction of asparagus root has shown various degrees of inhibition against various fungi such as Bacillus anthracis, Streptococcus hemolyticus type A and B, Bacillus diphtheriae, Bacillus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus citri, Staphylococcus albus, and Bacillus subtilis.

Delay aging

Asparagus tuber has excellent anti-oxidant and anti-aging effects on human body. The extract of asparagus contains effective ingredients to delay aging, and asparagus polysaccharide has the effect of scavenging free radicals and anti-lipid peroxidation activity.

Kill mosquito and fly larvae

When chopped asparagus roots are placed in water to make 0.5-1% concentration, all tsetse in them can be killed after 72-96 hours. 2-5% concentration can kill 70-100% of maggots in them after 3-4 days.

Contraindications to the consumption of asparagus

There are few contraindications for asparagus. Because asparagus has the effect of removing dryness and lowering fire, it is contraindicated for people with deficiency cold diarrhea and wind-cold cough.