Picture of Chinese medicine Ophiopogon japonicus

Ophiopogon japonicus is a common Chinese medicinal material in clinical medicine that nourishes yin, blood and yin. It has sweet and slightly bitter effects, and has a cold effect. It belongs to the heart, lung, liver and gallbladder meridians. It has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, benefiting the stomach, promoting fluid and quenching thirst, purifying the heart and eliminating troubles, and promoting digestion. In clinical medicine, Ophiopogon japonicus is mainly used to treat symptoms such as dry cough with little sputum, dry throat, etc. caused by lung yin deficiency; it can also be used to treat symptoms such as vomiting, belching, and stomach noise caused by stomach yin deficiency; it can also be used to treat symptoms such as palpitations and insomnia caused by heart yin deficiency.

Clinical medical application:

In clinical medicine, Ophiopogon japonicus is often used to treat the following symptoms:

1. Ophiopogon japonicus can be used to treat symptoms of lung yin deficiency. When treating patients with dry cough with sticky phlegm, dry throat and dry nose caused by kidney yin deficiency and irritability, it is often used in combination with mulberry leaves, donkey-hide gelatin cakes and other medicines, such as Qingzao Jiufei Decoction; when treating patients with fatigue cough and hemoptysis caused by lung and kidney yin deficiency, it is often used in combination with asparagus, such as Erdong Paste.

2. Ophiopogon japonicus can also be used to treat symptoms of stomach yin deficiency. When treating patients with dry mouth caused by heat damaging liver yin, it can be used in combination with Adenophora scabra, such as Yiwei Decoction; when treating patients with heat damaging body fluid and dry intestines and constipation, it can be used together with Adenophora scabra and Rehmannia glutinosa, such as Zengye Decoction.

3. Ophiopogon japonicus can also be used to treat symptoms such as palpitations and insomnia caused by heart yin deficiency and febrile diseases. When treating patients with palpitations and insomnia caused by kidney yin deficiency and heat, it can be used together with raw rehmannia, spinach seed and other medicines, such as Tianwang Buxin Dan; when treating patients with evil disturbing the heart, fear of cold and irritability, it can be used together with scutellaria baicalensis, bamboo leaf heart, raw rehmannia and other medicines, such as Qingying Decoction.

Contemporary use:

Modern pharmaceutical research has confirmed that Ophiopogon japonicus has anti-arrhythmia, anti-shock, anti-tumor, lipid-lowering, anti-infection, sedative, hypnotic, improves blood thixotropy, and anti-coagulation effects.

Modern use of Ophiopogon japonicus can treat viral myocarditis, heart failure, chronic heart failure, chronic atrophic gastritis, chronic pharyngitis and other diseases.