Maitong Herb refers to the traditional Chinese medicine Maitong, which is effective in nourishing yin and generating fluids, moistening the lungs and clearing the heart, and is used in the treatment of dry lungs and dry coughs, coughs due to deficiency of yin and consumptive coughs, paralysis of the throat (redness, swelling and pain in the pharynx or dryness with a feeling of a foreign body or itching and discomfort in the pharynx and difficulty in swallowing) and sore throats, thirst due to injury of the fluids, thirst due to internal heat (internal fever accompanied by the symptom of eating more, drinking more, urinating more, etc.), insomnia due to heartburn and insomnia, constipation due to dryness of the intestines.
Ophiopogon is sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold in nature, and belongs to the heart, lung and stomach meridians, and is mainly used as a tuberous root in medicine. The sweet taste of this herb has a tonic effect, which can nourish the lung yin, promote the production of fluid to quench thirst (to promote the production of fluid to relieve thirst), and is used for dry cough and sore throat caused by dryness of the lungs, as well as clearing the fire in the heart, and is used in the treatment of heartburn and insomnia.
Ophiopogon has a slightly bitter taste and belongs to the stomach meridian, which can nourish stomach yin and clear stomach heat, and is used in the treatment of internal heat and thirst, intestinal dryness and constipation.
Maitong is slightly cold in nature, and should be avoided by those who have loose stools in spleen deficiency, phlegm in the lungs and stomach (pathological products of impaired water metabolism), and those who have coughs at the beginning of wind-cold sensation.
The medication should be used under the guidance of a physician in order to better utilize the efficacy of the drug, and should not be used on its own.