Aster, also known as Aster and Aster, is the root and rhizome of Aster, a perennial herbaceous plant in the Asteraceae family. The Compendium of Materia Medica says that "its roots are purple and soft, hence the name".
Chinese medicine believes that aster taste bitter, spicy, sweet, slightly warm, has the effect of moisturizing the lungs, dissolving phlegm, cough, suitable for cough qi reversal, phlegm discomfort, as well as lung weakness cough, sputum with blood and other coughs. The "Benjing" says that "the Lord coughs against the upper breath, and the cold and hot qi in the chest." The "Famous Doctors' Catalogue" says that it "cures cough and saliva and pus and blood, stops wheezing and palpitations, five labor deficiencies, makes up for deficiencies, and pediatric epilepsy". "Materia Medica" says that it "specializes in the treatment of blood phlegm, is a holy medicine for blood labor, and can also benefit the small intestine". Because it is warm but not hot, moist but not dry, so the evidence of cough, regardless of external sensation, internal injury, the length of the course of the disease, cold and hot cough can be used. Such as cold external cough, itchy throat, sputum is not pleasant, can be used with mustard, orange stem; lung heat cough, phlegm yellow and thick, can be matched with mulberry white skin, Zhejiang shellfish, skullcap, etc.; yin deficiency cough, sputum with blood, can be used with ejiao, shellfish. External cough is generally suitable for raw use, yin deficiency cough should be used.
Aster can not only promote the lungs and relieve cough, but also have the effect of diuretic and laxative. It is recorded in the "Thousand Golden Fangs": "The woman who is cured is not allowed to urinate: the end of the aster, and the three fingers of the well Huashui." "Materia Medica" said that it "can also benefit the small intestine" and "can also benefit the small intestine." According to the "Case of Continued Names of Doctors", "Li Shicai ruled Wang Junshou, sputum was full of fire, cough was even right, suddenly urinated, self-administered before the car, mutong, fuling, Ze diarrhea and other medicines, the lower abdomen was bloated and stuffy, and the drip could not be dripped." Li Yue: The number of people on the right inch is the reason why the gold dry cannot produce water, but with the aster five dollars, mai dong three dollars, five flavor ten grains, ginseng two dollars, one dose and urine gushing out like a spring. ”
Many compounds for the treatment of urinary incomposity contain aster, such as the antler pills in "Shengji General Record and Void Labor Gate"; the poria pills for treating umbilical abdominal pain and urination in "Health Treasure Jian • Cell Paralysis Gate"; the raw pulse dispersion (to go to Schisandra, easy to dose Aster in "Gu Songyuan Medical Mirror " Several Episodes" to treat lung gold dryness, gasification, urinary closure of the second winter and two mothers, and so on.
The modern medical book "Zhu Liangchun's Collection of Experience in Medication" has such a description: "Aster can pass through the two stools, because of its body moist and slightly bitter, looking at its medicinal materials, the roots can be braided, so the aster also has the name of 'female braid', its sexual moist can be known, run can be passed, Xin can be done, bitter can be diarrhea, so the stagnation of the two stools is effective." Because it can promote lung qi on the top, and can transport jin liquid to moisten the intestines, it is more suitable for the elderly who cough and breathe weakly, and have constipation, and can be taken with boiling water with 30 grams of aster research powder, and can also be fried into thick juice with 12 grams of aster, which is both cough and laxative.
Young seedlings of aster are edible. Each 100 grams of fresh products contains 3.18 grams of protein, 0.21 grams of fat, 5.18 grams of carbohydrates, 2.87 mg of calcium, and 0.58 mg of phosphorus. From May to June every year, young seedlings and young stems and leaves are collected for consumption, blanched in boiling water, soaked in cool water, and can be fried, boiled porridge, steamed or salted.
1． Aster porridge: 10 grams of aster, 100 grams of rice, sugar to taste. Select the aster, put it in the medicine jar, soak it for 5 to 10 minutes, fry the juice in water, add rice to cook the porridge, add sugar when it is cooked, and then boil one or two boils to make it, 1 dose per day, even eat for 3 to 5 days, suitable for coughing, sputum is not happy, as well as lung weakness cough, phlegm with blood and other coughs.
2. Purple flowers 100 scatter: aster, winter flowers each 30 grams, 100 parts 15 grams. Choose three medicines, take 3 tablets of ginger, 1 ume decoction, 2 times a day, suitable for lung weakness and cough.
3. Aster almond pills: Aster, almonds are equal in amount. The two drugs are selected for purification, fine study, and honey refining into pills, such as the big one, 1 pill each time, 3 times a day, Schizandra soup is taken, which can promote lung cough, suitable for children coughing and hoarseness.
4. Aster five-flavor pills: Aster and Schisandra are equal in amount. The two drugs are selected to clean, finely, add honey into pills, 10 grams each time, 3 times a day, warm boiled water, suitable for tuberculosis cough and hemoptysis and other symptoms.
5. Stir-fried aster: 250 grams of aster seedlings, salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil each appropriate amount. Remove the young seedlings of aster from the roots and choose to wash them. Heat the oil pot on the fire for 60%, add the aster and stir-fry, sprinkle with fine salt, monosodium glutamate, and fry the aster thoroughly. This formula has the effect of warming the lungs, eliminating sputum and stopping cough.
6. Stir-fried shredded aster: 100 grams of pork, 250 grams of young seedlings of aster. Fine salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, green onion, ginger, soy sauce, vegetarian oil each appropriate amount. Wash the aster, blanch it in a pot of boiling water, remove and wash, drain, and wash and shred the pork. Mix salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, soy sauce, green onion and ginger into a bowl and stir well into a sauce. Heat the oil pot, sauté the shredded meat, add the sauce and fry until the meat is cooked, add the aster and fry until it tastes, and then put it on the plate. This formula is crisp and refreshing, has the effect of warming the lungs, eliminating phlegm and stopping cough, and is suitable for coughing phlegm, urinating and other diseases.
7. Dried vegetables made of aster: the young seedlings of aster are washed from the roots, soaked in boiling water for 1 to 2 minutes, dried or dried, packaged, sealed, soaked in hot water before eating, can be fried and made soup.
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