Description
玉竹片 （8oz）
萎蕤、玉参、尾参、铃当菜、小笔管菜、甜草根、靠山竹
性味
甘，平。
功效
本品为百合科植物玉竹的干燥根茎。 治热病阴伤，咳嗽烦渴，虚劳发热，消谷易饥，小便频数。
经脉
入肺经、胃经。
主治
养阴，润燥，除烦，止渴。治热病阴伤，咳嗽烦渴，虚劳发热，消谷易饥，小便频数。
用法用量
- 内服：煎汤，6~12g；熬膏、浸酒或入丸、散。
- 外用：适量，鲜品捣敷；或熬膏涂。阴虚有热宜生用，热不甚者宜制用。
注意禁忌
胃有痰湿气滞者忌服。
食疗方
1.玉竹党参粥
玉竹20g，党参30g，大米50g。先将玉竹、党参煎煮取汁，去渣后放入大米，再加适量水煮粥。每日服2次，趁热食用。 功效 益气养阴。主治气阴两虚之疲乏无力、自汗、心悸怔忡、胃纳不佳、口干、手足心热或盗汗、少寝多梦等症。感冒、腹胀纳呆者暂停用。
2.玉参焖鸭
玉竹50克,沙参(南沙参)50克,老鸭1只,葱,生姜,味精,精盐适量。将老鸭宰杀后，除去毛和内脏，洗净放砂锅内，再将沙参、玉竹放入，加水适量，先用武火烧沸，再用文火焖煮1小时以上，使鸭肉粑烂，放入调料。饮汤，吃鸭肉。
功效:补肺，滋阴。适用于肺阴虚的咳喘、糖尿病和胃阴虚的慢性胃炎以及津亏肠燥引起的大便秘结等症。
3.猪肉玉竹汤
玉竹15g，猪瘦肉100g。将玉竹洗净，猪瘦肉切片，共入锅中，加水适量煮汤即成。
功效:润肺养阴，生津止渴。主治热病伤阴之咽干咳嗽，心烦口渴，秋冬肺燥干咳，肺结核干咳等症。
4.玉竹粥
玉竹15g，粳米100g，冰糖适量。先将玉竹洗净，切碎煎取浓汁后去渣，入粳米，再加水适量煮为稀粥，粥成后放入冰糖，稍煮1～2沸即可。每日食服1次。
功效:滋阴润肺，生津止渴。主治肺阴受伤，肺燥咳嗽，或高热病后，烦渴，口干舌燥，阴虚低热不退者，并可用于各种类型心脏病心功能不全时的辅助食疗。
5.玉竹茶
将玉竹9克制成粗末，用沸水冲泡30分钟后即可。代茶频饮。
功效:养阴润燥，生津驻颜，润肌泽肤，延年。主治体虚而面色不悦，肌肤不仁者。
Rhizome of Fragrant Solomonseal / Yu Zhu Pian (8oz)
Solomon's Seal is a traditional Chinese medicinal herb to nourish the lungs and stomach yin. It moistens dryness and sinews. Solomon's Seal benefits the lungs, supports skin health and promotes the body's natural fluid regulation process. Solomon's Seal has anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and antioxidant effects.
Solomon's seal is used to treat lung disorders, reduce swelling (inflammation), and [topically] to dry out tissue and draw it together (as an astringent). Some people apply Solomon's seal directly to the skin for bruises, ulcers, or boils on the fingers, hemorrhoids, skin redness, and water retention (edema).
From the manufacturer:
The taste is sweet and cooling in effect.
This product is the dried rhizome of Polygonatum odoratum. It has been used to cure febrile wounds, cough and polydipsia, asthenia and fever, excess hunger, frequent urination. It enters the Lung and Stomach meridians.
Indications: It is used to nourish yin, moisturize dryness, relieve irritability, quench thirst.
Classical references:
① "The Classic": The main body is in the storm heat, can not be shaken, stumbled, and deficiencies. Jiufu goes to the black and wild face, good color and moisturizing. [stuck, deficiency heat]
② "Don't Record": The main body of the heart is dysfunction and heat, damp toxin, low back pain, cold in the stem, and tears in the eye canthus.
③ "Medicinal Properties Theory": The main period is cold and heat, insufficient internal supplements, depletion and heat, headache and restlessness.
④ "Materia Medica Supplements": The master is smart, regulates the blood and makes people strong.
⑤ "Four Tones of Materia Medica": nourish the middle, nourish qi.
⑥ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": For boredom, quenches thirst, nourishes the heart and lungs, replenishes five fatigues and seven injuries, for wasting disease, waist and foot pain, madness in the sky [hysteria?].
⑦Li Gao: Nourishes the liver and removes heat. The main wind is in the end.
⑧"Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": Tonic blood, nourish the middle and spleen.
⑨ "Compendium": Mainly wind temperature and spontaneous sweating, and malaria, cold and heat, spleen and stomach deficiency, frequent urination of men, loss of sperm, all wasting.
⑩ "Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine History": nourishing yin, clearing lungs and moisturizing dryness. Cure Yin deficiency, hyperhidrosis, dry cough, and pulmonary dysfunction.
Dosage
Oral administration: Decoction, 6~12g; boil to make an ointment, soak in wine or make pill or powder.
External use: appropriate amount, fresh product pounded and applied; or boiled ointment applied. If there is heat in yin deficiency, it is better to produce and use.
Cautions: People with phlegm and dampness in the stomach should not take it.
