1. Summary of classics
1. "Shennong Materia Medica": "The Lord coughs against the upper qi, the cold and hot qi in the chest, goes to the poison and paralysis, and an Wuzang." ”
2. "Materia Medica Preparation": "Warm to the lungs, bitter to the next breath." Replenish the deficiency, eliminate phlegm and quench thirst. Cure cold and heat, cough reverse qi, cough pus and blood (special treatment of blood phlegm, for blood labor holy medicine), lung through deficiency fever, children's epilepsy. Can open the throat paralysis, take evil saliva, but the spicy loose slippery, should not be used alone. ”
3. "Famous Doctors's Records": "Cure cough and saliva and pus and blood, stop wheezing and palpitations, five labor deficiencies, make up for deficiencies, and children with epilepsy." ”
4. "Materia Medica Reading": "Sexual warmth and lungs, cure the evil of wind and cold cough; sechi and camp, cure the disease of vomiting red." ”
5. "The Theory of Medicinal Properties": "Supplement the deficiency of qi, cure chest stress and reverse qi, fatigue and lack of heat." ”
6. "Materia Medica From New": "Xin warms the lungs, breathes bitterly, dissolves phlegm and quenches thirst." Cure cold and heat, cough reverse upper qi, cough and vomit pus and blood, lung hypothermia, pediatric epilepsy. Can open the throat paralysis, take the evil saliva, but also can benefit the small intestine. ”
7. "Materia Medica Summary": "Taste bitter and hard, start with the Taiyin Sutra, and specialize in curing cough and reversing qi." ”
8. "Materia Medica": "Hard and warm, slippery, moisturizing the lungs, dissolving phlegm and quenching thirst, specializing in the treatment of blood phlegm and lung hypothermia, and can also benefit the small intestine." ”
9. "Notes on the Collection of Materia Medica": "The main treatment is coughing against the upper qi, the cold and hot qi in the chest, to remove the poison, the impotence, and the five internal organs." Cure cough and spit pus and blood, stop wheezing and palpitations, five labor deficiencies, insufficient supplementation, pediatric epilepsy. ”
10. "Materia Medica": "The main cough is against phlegm and wheezing, and the lungs are spitting and spitting; cure children's epilepsy, cold and hot gas." Insufficient labor can make up for it, and the poison can be driven away. ”
11. "Tang Materia Medica": "Cure asthma and yin." ”
12. "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Mediate and vomit blood in pulmonary impotence, eliminate phlegm and cough." ”
13. "New Edition of Materia Medica": "Aster, bitter, spicy, warm, non-toxic." Start with Taiyin and merge into Foot Yang Ming. The main cough reverse upper breath, cold and hot gas in the chest, to detoxify, cough spit pus blood, stop wheezing, five labor deficiency, cure long-term cough. However, it can only be used as an adjunct, and cannot be used alone to be effective. ”
14. "Derivation of Materia Medica": "Beneficial to the lungs." ”
15. Ning Yuan's "Food Appreciation Materia Medica": "The main lung is heated by weakness, opens the throat, and takes evil saliva." ”
16. "Matching Materia Medica": "Bitter, hard, flat, and slightly warm." Start with Taiyin and Shaoyin menstrual blood. Release the fire of inflammation and disperse the stagnant breath. Cure phlegm and blood, facilitate urination, open throat paralysis, and recede eclampsia. ”
17. "Materia Medica": "Specializing in the treatment of blood phlegm, it is a holy medicine for blood labor." It can also benefit the small intestine. ”
18. "Materia Medica Renewed": "It is advisable to moisten the lungs and breathe, cold phlegm and wheezing." ”
19. "Yunnan Materia Medica": "Bitter taste, hard, warm." Bitter walking heart, heart main blood, hemostasis and blood nourishment; hard to walk the lungs, more credit to the lungs. Cure cough, sputum wheezing, lung replenishment, yin deficiency and coughing, blood cough, yin deficiency, sputum with blood. ”
20. "Materia Medica Justice": "Aster is soft and moist, although it is bitter and warm, it is not dry and fierce. Specialized in venting lung depression, fixing cough and reversion, and publicizing suffocation. Its taste is slightly spicy, then it enters the qi point, and its color Yin purple, it enters the blood point, so it can also drain the qi and blood of the lungs. ”
21. "Lei Gong Cannon Pharmaceutical Sexual Solution": "The taste is bitter and hard, the sex is warm and non-toxic, and it enters the heart and lungs." The main cough is against the upper breath, sputum wheezing and spitting, making up for weakness, and ann the five organs. ”
23. "Gu Songyuan Medical Mirror": "Cure lung disease cough and asthma, cure chest knots." ”
24. "Introduction to Medicine": "Aster bitter temperature can regulate the lungs, eliminate phlegm and cough, blood and wheezing, cold and hot chest knots can be eliminated, make up for weakness and cure sluggishness and boils." ”
25. "Materia Medica Illustrated": "Eliminate phlegm and asthma, stop bleeding and cure cough."
2. Modern research
1. Ingredients: The main content contains asterone, epiacetox ketone, quercetin, kaempferol, buttercupine, emodin, ephrodiol, emodin methyl ether, etc., but also contains sterols, organic acids, peptides and so on.
2. Function: This product has expectorant, antitussive, bacteriostatic, antiviral, diuretic, anti-tumor and other effects.
3. Pharmacology:
(1) Expectorant, antitussive effect: anesthesia rabbit decoction 1 g / kg, has a significant expectorant effect (respiratory secretion volume measurement), the effect can last for more than 4 hours, crude extract oral on the rat tracheal secretions also have a significant increase in effect.
(2) Antibacterial effect: In vitro tests have a certain inhibitory effect on E. coli, dysentery bacillus (Song Nei), Proteus proteus, typhoid bacillus, paratyphoid bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Vibrio cholerae.
(3) Anti-cancer effect: Epinephthalatesanol isolated from aster has a certain anti-cancer effect on Ascites carcinoma.