It has the function of clearing heat and phlegm, and can also moisten dryness and phlegm, softening and dispersing knots. This kind of medicine is mostly cold, mostly enters the lung meridian, cool can clear heat. Some of the drugs are moist and can also moisten dryness; some of the drugs are salty and can also soften hardness and disperse knots. Chuan Bai Mu is a cold phlegm clearing medicine. Chuanbei mother can stop cough we all know, and about Chuanbei snow pear cream, the legend and Wei Zheng has a relationship! The legendary story of Chuanbei mother and Wei Zheng The early Tang politician Wei Zheng was very filial, his mother suffered from cough and asthma for many years, although seeking medical help, but the effect was very little, Wei Zheng was very upset. When Emperor Taizong Li Shimin learned of this, he sent an imperial doctor to diagnose the illness. After carefully looking, smelling, asking and cutting, the imperial doctor prescribed a prescription for Chuanbei mum, almonds, Chenpi and Fa Xianxia, but the old lady refused to take the medicine because it was too bitter. The next day, the old lady said she wanted to eat pears. Wei Zheng immediately sent someone to buy back, and the pear peeled, cut into small pieces to the old lady, but the old lady because of the teeth have been lost, inconvenient to chew, only a small piece after not eat. Wei Zheng thought, then the pear slice decoction with sugar and let the old lady drink it! Unexpectedly, the old lady drank half a bowl and licked her lips and said: “Delicious! Delicious!” Wei Zheng saw the old lady on the pear juice very like, so in the decoction of pear juice by hand will be a bowl of medicine juice (according to the imperial doctor’s prescription decoction) poured into the pear soup together with the decoction, in order to avoid the old lady said bitter not drink, and specially added some sugar. Until the third night, Wei Zheng was also a little tired, so he took a nap. When he opened his eyes and opened the lid of the jar, the medicine had been boiled for too long and became a sugar cube, which Wei Zheng sent to the old lady and asked her mother to taste. Wei Zheng saw the old lady like to eat, heart is very happy, so he gave the old lady with medicine juice and pear juice with sugar boiled into sugar cubes every day. Let people unexpectedly, the old lady so eat nearly half a month, not only increased the amount of food, and cough and asthma also. Wei Zheng with medicine and pear juice boiled to cure the old lady’s disease, the news soon spread, doctors also use this wonderful recipe for patients to cure diseases, have received good results. Later generations of doctors on the basis of this gradually derived into the Chuanbei snow pear cream. Source: This product is the dried bulb of the lily plant Chuanbei mum, dark purple mum, Gansu mum, or sorrel mum. The first three are called “Songbei” and “Qingbei” respectively according to their different properties, and the latter is called “Ovenbei”. It is dried in summer and autumn or when the snow melts, and the roots, coarse skin and sand are removed and dried in the sun or at low temperature. Origin: Pine shell is mainly produced in Sichuan (Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture) and is the best product in Sichuan shell; Qing shell is mainly produced in Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan junction and is also of excellent quality; Fur shell is mainly produced in Sichuan (Changdu) and Yunnan (Deqin, Dali) and is second in quality to pine shell and Qing shell. Taste: bitter, sweet, slightly cold; belongs to the lung and heart meridians. Effects: Clearing away heat and phlegm, moistening the lung and relieving cough, dispersing nodules and eliminating swelling. Usage and dosage: Decoction, 1-3g; powdered, 1-2g Note on use 1, against aconite 2, not suitable for those with cold spleen and stomach deficiency and damp phlegm Chuanbei mum is also used in the Materia Medica HuiYin: materia medica, the medicine to open depression, lower the qi and resolve phlegm. It moistens the lung and eliminates phlegm, stops coughing and settles asthma, so it is the first remedy for the evidence of false labor and fire. Therefore, with Zhi Mu, it can clear the air and nourish Yin; with Scutellaria and Lian can clear phlegm and lower fire; with Sage can be used to supplement the non-gathering; with Gui and Shao can regulate gas and Ying; and with Lian Qiao can detoxify depression and treat the gall under the neck; with Er Chen instead of Han Xia, it can nourish the lung and eliminate phlegm, and lower fire. The above is a good idea to use the Chuan. If the detoxification of carbuncles, break the knot, eliminate the real phlegm, dressing malignant sores, and the earth is better. However, Chuan is light in taste and superior in nature, the earth is bitter in taste and inferior in nature, the two to be used separately.