Description:
both medicine and health-care herbals,antibiosis, antitumors, relieving cough, moistening lungs andclearing inner heat.
“Chinese Pharmacopoeia” describes AsparagusChochichinensis as below: with gentle and bitter flavor andfollowing effects: nourishing and moistening, clearing lung andenriching the saliva, attending to phlegm-heat type dry cough,constipation, etc. Asparagus is the common drug and ediblemedicine, but its pharmacological effects were put into deep studysince 90s. TCM science believes that Asparagus is nourishing andheat-clearing herbal and used to treat cough, throat inflammationembolism, etc. It also nourishes and lubricates intestinal canaland treat constipation.
1. Anti-microbial effect: can inhibit Bacillusanthracis, Influenza A and beta-hemolytic streptococcus, diphtheriabacillus, type diphtheria bacilli, Streptococcus pneumoniae,Staphylococcus aureus golden, lemon aureus, Staphylococcus aureusand Bacillus subtilis in different levels;
2. Anti-tumor effect: can inhibit acutelymphoblastic leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, alcoholdehydrogenase of acute monocytic leukemia and leukocyte of acutelymphoblastic leukemia to some extent.
3. Anti-tussive and expectorant effects: animal experimentsshow that it has effects of relieving a cough andexpectorants.
