Tian Dong - Cochinchinese Asparagus Root Tuber 【Net Wt: 100g】

NPN 80091724

【Macroscopic Features】
Long fusiform shape, middle is fat and full, both ends are gradually thin and blunt, 6~20cm long, middle diameter is 0.5~2cm. Externally yellowish-white or pale yellowish-brown, oily and translucent, sometimes has thin longitudinal wrinkles or grooves, occasionally has faint yellowish-brown outer skin. Completely dried pieces are firm and brittle, incompletely dried pieces are soft, with sticky texture, waxy fractured surface, yellowish-white, and translucent, center has oblique thin woody core. faint odor, sweet and slightly bitter taste.

【Properties】Sweet, bitter; cold.

【Channels (meridians) entered】lung and kidney

【Functions】
Nourishes yin, clears heat, moistens dryness, engenders fluid. Apply to tuberculosis, bronchitis, diphtheria, whooping cough, dry mouth and throat, thirst induced by heat, diabetes, constipation, externally use to swelling sore toxin, snake bites.