Herbs that Tonify Yin
Tian Men Dong 天门冬
Tuber Asparagi Cochinensis Asparagus Tuber
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Materia Medica Data
- Category
- Herbs that Tonify Yin
- Temperature
- Very Cold
- Nature & Flavour
- Sweet, Bitter, Very Cold
- Channels Entered
- KI, LU
- Latin (pharmaceutical)
- Tuber Asparagi Cochinensis
- Chinese
- 天门冬
- Tone Marks
- tiān mén dōng
- Translation
- Lush Winter Aerial Plant
Chinese Herb Actions
- Tonifies Kidney Yin, Clears Lung Heat Treats dry mouth, fever, aversion to wind and cold, chest pain, and hemoptysis or blood streaked sputum. For dry cough, cough with scanty sticky sputum, or cough with blood streaked sputum and difficult to expectorate.
- Tonifies Lung Yin, Generates Fluids, Moistens Dryness For wasting and thirsting disorder. For thirst, muscle wasting, consumptive cough with blood streaked sputum, low grade or afternoon fevers, constipation, dry stools.
Chinese Herb Dosage
- 6-15 grams in decoction (Chen)
- 6-12 grams in decoction (Bensky)
Chinese Herb Contraindications & Cautions
- Do not use in cases of diarrhea due to Middle Jiao Deficiency and Cold
- Do not use in cases of cough due to Wind-Cold
Chinese Herb Toxicity & Overdose
- None Noted
Sources & References
Compiled and edited by Thomas Dehli, Founder & Editor, Sacred Lotus
The information here is referenced from numerous sources — teachers, practitioners, class notes from Five Branches University, the books below, and the published research literature, with citations given as resolvable PubMed identifiers. Where sources disagree, I have flagged the discrepancies directly. If facts couldn't be verified, I have left them out. How we source our content.
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Chinese Herbs Books & References
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