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Pin Yin: zi wan
Common name: purple aster root
Botanical family: Compositae
Botanical name: Aster tataricus L.f.
Primary action: Stop Cough and Wheezing
Secondary actions:
Transform Cold Phlegm
Temperature: slightly warm
Taste: sweet, acrid, bitter
Entering Channel: Lu
Actions:
Stops cough and expels Phlegm, especially for chronic Cold-induced
cough with copious and/or blood-tinged sputum.
(See
Cold Phlegm Blocking Lungs
;
Cold Invading Lungs
.)
Indications: many types of cough, best for Wind-cold with
profuse sputum
Dosage:
1-3 qian.
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