Sha Shen
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Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: adenophora, four-leaf / upgright lady-bell
root
Pharmacuetical Name: Radix Adenophorae
Properties: sweet, slightly bitter, cool
Temperature: cool
Channels: LU, ST
Flavors: sweet, bitter
Tonifies: yin
Special Properties:
clears heat
Alternate Forms:
- bei sha shen - nourish yin and moisten LU,
especially after febrile disease has injured yin manifesting as dry
throat, thirst, scarlet tongue.
- nan sha shen - less potent to nourish yin
but can also dispel phlegm. More suitable for dry cough and scanty sputum
that may be blood streaked and thirst and dryness.
Actions / Indications:
- Nourishes LU yin; clears LU heat (dry mouth or dry
throat, non-productive cough due to LU yin deficiency with fire, consumptive
cough with blood in sputum, hoarseness due to chronic cough, LU dryness
due to weather)
- Nourishes ST yin and Generates fluids (chronic ST
yin deficiency, sequela of febrile disease; ST yin deficiency with dryness
of mouth and throat)
- (cc: deficient cold of SP and ST with appetite loss and diarrhea)
- (cc: wind-cold cough)
- (cc: incompatible with Li Lu)
Special Notes:
- Sha Shen is the generic name that refers to both Bei Sha Shen and Nan Sha Shen. Many classic texts did not distinguish between the two herbs.
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