Primary Traditional Functions
Clears Lung Heat and Sedates Fire

• Tian Men Dong moistens dryness, is very cold, and is best used to clear Lung heat and sedate fire characterized by fever, aversion to wind and cold, chest pain and blood-streaked sputum or hemop tysis. Benefits cases in which pathogenic dryness has attacked the Lung and is causing symptoms of a non-productive dry cough.

Nourishes the Yin and Moistens Dryness

• Benefits chronic febrile disorders injuring the yin
• Benefits yin and qi deficiencies, steaming bones sensations, flushed cheeks and night sweats
• Benefits wasting and thirsting syndrome in upper, middle and lower jiao with poly dipsia
• Benefits sore throat due to deficient fire or Lung heat

Asparagus Root
Tian Men Dong

Pinyin Name: Tian Men Dong
English Name: Asparagus Root
Properties: sweet, bitter, very cold
Channels Entered: Kidney, Lungs