What Are the Medical Uses of Ophiopogon Japonicus?

Ophiopogogon japonicus (L.f.) Ker-Gawl. It is a plant of the family Liliaceae. With nourishing and clearing heat, moistening lungs and relieving cough. Modern medicine believes that Ophiopogon has strong heart, diuretic, antibacterial effects. Indications include fever injury, upset, thirst, dry throat, dry lung cough, hemoptysis of tuberculosis, and sore throat. It is also the first choice for landscaping plants, which can be used as ground cover plants. In recent years, due to the continuous increase in market demand, there has been a trend of oversupply. It is mainly produced in Zhejiang, Sichuan, Fujian, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong and other provinces. It was originally wild and has been cultivated.

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Ophiopogon was first published in Shennong's Materia Medica and listed as top grade. The "Book of Materia Medica" cloud: "... Ye Qing is like a sedge, it is as long as a sedge, it does not wither in all seasons, its roots have yellow and white whiskers, and its roots are like pearls. In April, light red flowers bloom, such as red lotus flowers. Shibi And the circle is like a pearl ... "The root of Ophiopedilum has a beard, like wheat, and its leaves are like leek leaves. It does not wither in winter, hence the name Ophiopogon. Aliases:

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Ophiopogon is warm and humid, with a shady environment. Cold hardy, avoid strong light and high temperature. When the flowers are seen in July, the underground roots begin to form. From September to October is the rooting period. Store the seeds. Pay attention to time. Long-term storage will lead to reduced seed activity and sowing is not ideal. Ophiopogon is an evergreen in winter and leaves no leaves throughout the year. It is an important medicinal material and green plant. ^[1]

Ophiopogon has a developed root system, drought tolerance, and strong adaptability. It can grow normally on river slopes, roadsides, tree caves, stone gaps, corners, flower bed edges, under the hedge, etc. It has expanded green space, beautified the landscape, and exerted a larger ecology. The role of function

The diseases of Ophiopogon are mainly leaf blight and black spot disease, which usually start in mid-April and mainly cause damage to the leaves. Bordeaux liquid spraying can be used for prevention and control of 1: 1: 150 per mu. The major pests of Ophiopogon are:

Ophiopogon is sweet, slightly bitter, and cold. Function nourishes yin and lungs, nourishes stomach, clears heart and removes annoyance. It can be used for the treatment of lung heat, dry cough, dry throat, sore throat, blood in sputum, constipation, stomach pain, upset, and insomnia. Modern Chinese medicine pharmacology has confirmed that Ophiopogon contains a variety of steroidal saponins and amino acids, glucose, vitamins A and B-sitosterol, slime, potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, chromium, etc. It can increase coronary flow, have obvious protective effect on myocardial ischemia, improve myocardial contraction, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption, resist arrhythmia, and prevent cardiovascular disease. In addition, it has certain sedative and hypoglycemic effects (which can protect damaged islet cells from recovery and increase liver glycogen), as well as improve the body's ability to resist hunger, enhance the body's immunity, extend the time of antibodies, and remove free radicals from the body. Anti-aging effect.

Diet and health care: Pharmacological experiments show that: Ophiopogon can improve hypoxia tolerance in mice under hypobaric hypoxia conditions, can improve myocardial ischemia, hypoxic damage, increase coronary blood flow, and improve cardiac hemodynamic effects. May prevent after myocardial infarction

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The occurrence of arrhythmias reduces myocardial oxygen consumption, increases myocardial energy supply, resists thrombosis and improves microcirculation, and limits the scope of myocardial infarction. For example, Shengmai San made with ginseng and Schisandra chinensis has good curative effect in anti-shock and improving heart function. It also has antibacterial, expectorant, antitussive, and diuretic effects. Ophiopogon can coordinate insulin function, reduce blood, and promote islet cells to return to normal. In addition, Ophiopogon has a certain sedative effect, and also has the effect of improving the body's immunity.

Recipe recommendation: Dangshen Maidong lean broth. Ingredients: 500 grams of lean pork, 60 grams of Codonopsis, 30 grams of raw rehmannia, 30 grams of Ophiopogon, 10 red dates. System of law: (1) Codonopsis, Rehmannia glutinosa, Ophiopogon japonicus, and Red Date (denuclear) are washed. (2) Wash lean pork and cut into pieces. (3) Put all the ingredients into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil it with martial arts, and cook in a simmering pot for 1 hour. Features: This soup has the effect of nourishing yin and moisturizing. Codonopsis in the soup has a sweet taste, and has the effects of strengthening the spleen and replenishing vital energy. Rehmannia glutinosa is sweet and cold, and has the effect of nourishing yin and nourishing blood. Ophiopogon is sweet, slightly bitter, nourishes yin, refreshes the lungs, and clears the heart. The above 3 flavors are all moisturizing products, nourished and moisturized with lean pork, red dates and spleen and stomach. Combined into a soup, it has the functions of increasing fluid and nourishing, nourishing the stomach and promoting health. Eat right: 6 grams to 12 grams each time. Tianjin thirst, internal heat and thirst, dry bowel constipation, upset and sleepless people are better to eat. Food reminder: those who have spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, diarrhea, phlegm, dampness, and cold and cough due to violent sensation should not be taken. Ophiopogon and black fungus are intimidating.

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Chinese medicine believes that Ophiopogon is sweet, slightly bitter, and cold. Into the heart, lungs and stomach. With the effect of clearing the heart, nourishing the lungs, nourishing the stomach and promoting the body. It is used for fever injury, fatigue, anorexia, dry throat, dry cough, lung hemoptysis, lung dysentery, pulmonary dysentery, thirst, dry bowel and other symptoms. Since the beginning of the 21st century, it has also been used to treat coronary heart disease and atrophic gastritis. As early as three thousand years ago, the ancient book Erya has been recorded. Medicinal medicine first appeared in the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" in the Han Dynasty, and was listed as top grade. It treats "heart-stomach qi, suffocation in injury, stomach and veins, slenderness and shortness of breath", "Jiufu is light, not old and hungry". "Famous Doctors' Records" believes that it has the effects of "stopping vomiting, healing spleen, strengthening yin and replenishing essence, eliminating gluttony, replenishing spirits, replenishing qi, replenishing five internal organs, making people healthy and beautiful". It is used to treat the symptoms of "heavy eyes and yellow eyes, full heart support, exhaustion and fever, dry mouth and thirst". "Rihuazi Materia Medica" claims that Ophiopogon has the effect of calming the soul and relieving cough, and can cure five injuries and seven injuries. "Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "Medica asparagus is used as a stimulant, it is irritating to serve, nourish the marrow, ventilate the kidney, set the wheezing, make the body smooth, and remove all the ill and unclean diseases on the body." The medicinal materials are light yellow, the roots are enlarged, the texture is soft, the taste is sweet, and the chewing is sticky.

Modern pharmacological studies have shown that Ophiopogon contains many steroidal saponins such as Astragaloside A, B, C, and D. Among them, the aglycones of the three saponins of A, B, and D are ruscogenin. It also contains -sitosterol, stigmasterol, amino acids, glucose and vitamin A-like substances. Pharmacological effects: 1. It has an effect against experimental myocardial infarction. 2. Have a strong heart, fight against Gram-negative bacillus endotoxin, and improve the phagocytosis of the reticular endothelial system of the body. 3. It can reduce blood sugar. 4. It has strong inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis and E. coli. Traditional Chinese medicines made mainly from Ophiopogon are Shengmai Yin, Huangqi Shengmai Yin, Erdong Cream, Yangyin Qingfei Pill, Buxin Pill, Maiwei Dihuang Pill, Ning Chou Hua Tan Pill, etc. Wide application.

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1. Pulmonary dysentery (modern atelectasis, pulmonary fibrosis, asbestos lung, etc.) Deficiency fever type, evidence of cough, saliva, viscous, cough, shortness of breath, wheezing, dry mouth, dry body, weight loss , Dry fur, red and dry tongue, pulse count. Treatment: nourishing yin and clearing heat, nourishing lungs and relieving cough. Recipe: Maimendong Decoction, Ophiopogon japonicus, Pinellia ternata, Ganliang nourishing herb, Japonica rice, Jujube.

2. True heart pain (acute myocardial infarction and its complications in modern medicine) Qi deficiency and yin deficiency, evidence of chest tightness, pain, exacerbation of fatigue, palpitation, palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness, etc. Governing Law: Yiqi Huoxue, Ziyin, Fumai Shengjin. Recipe: Shengmaisan, Ginseng, Ophiopogon, Schisandra. According to the needs of the disease can be added safflower, tincture and other blood circulation drugs.

3 The nephrotic syndrome has two types of deficiency of yin and yang. This type is more common when children need to reduce the amount of hormones after treatment with sufficient hormones. The original symptoms of yin deficiency do not disappear, but the symptoms of yang deficiency gradually appear. The evidence shows that the complexion is pale, fatigued, dizzy, diminished, hot in the hands, feet, or heart, or the throat is dry, the tongue is red, the moss is thin or white, and the pulse strings are thin. Governing Law: Yi Qi, nourishing yin, warming kidney. Recipes: Maiwei Dihuang Decoction or Pills, cooked Dihuang, Mangosteen, Yam, Danpi, Alisma, Poria, Ophiopogon, Schisandra. Codonopsis and psoralen can also be added according to symptoms.

4 Clinical symptoms of diabetes include constipation, thirst and dryness. Governing Law: Yangyin Shengjin. Recipe: Ophiopogon, raw land, Yuanshen.

5. Children's summer heat and summer injury lung and stomach type, the symptoms are long-term summer fever, thirst, polyuria, less sweat, or no sweat, loss of appetite and so on. Governing Law: clearing away heat and reducing heat. Recipe: Watermelon peel, Ophiopogon, light bamboo leaves, licorice.

Oatmeal herbal meal making

1. Oatmeal oatmeal, 120 grams each of Ophiopogon and Asparagus, 60 grams of Schisandra chinensis, water-fried, dregs removed and juice added, appropriate amount of honey and sugar, then fried, concentrated into a paste, stored in a bottle, 1 tablespoon at a time Adjusting clothes, taking 2 times a day, has the effect of nourishing the five internal organs and invigorating qi.

2. 100 grams of wheat dong and dong dong, add 2000 ml of water, cook to 1,000 ml, filter, discard residue, extract juice, add appropriate amount of glutinous rice, ferment wine, 2 tablespoons each time, 2 times daily, suitable for Kidney deficiency strain, lung heat cough and asthma, stomach heat constipation, irregular blood circulation.

3 Oatmeal porridge, 20 grams each of Ophiopogon and ginger, 15 grams of Rehmannia glutinosa, washed, soaked in water just over the surface of the medicine, after the medicine has absorbed enough water, mashed, wrapped in clean gauze, squeezed to extract juice, juice Add less water and squeeze. Take a total of 300 ml of juice. Another 100 grams of rice, simmer 4-50 grams, boil the porridge together, put Ophiopogon rehmanniae, rehmannia glutinosa, ginger juice in half-cooked time, cook the medicine heart thoroughly, take it for a long time to recover. Applicable to dryness and cough of lungs, fatigue and annoyance, dry throat and thirst, vomiting blood, constipation, etc.

Ophiopogon for garden use

It has a long history of application in gardens. With the development of ecological garden cities and conservation-oriented gardening nationwide, it is currently prevailing. Ophiopogon is widely respected by the garden departments of many provinces for its wide adaptability, high ornamental value, significant ecological and economic benefits, and has huge market development prospects. According to engineering practice, we have summarized the application methods of Ophiopogon, which mainly include the following: 1. Greenery and roadbeds are constructed of perennial verdant green, which can replace the lawn, make up for the lack of evergreen lawns, and improve the "four seasons evergreen, three seasons have "Flower" landscape effect. 2. The landscape under the forest and the double-layered planting of Ophiopogon angustifolia, grow lushly in shaded places, and are suitable for planting in the lower layers of arbor, irrigation, flowers, and grass to create a natural ecological plant community. It can effectively cover the bare soil under the tree, improve the bad landscape under the forest, and increase the ecological benefit per unit area. 3. The greening of special spaces has been experimentally observed. Compared with traditional cold-season turf such as white clover and ryegrass, tall fescue, bluegrass and its mixed sowing, Ophiopogon has fewer pests and diseases, and it is more robust after one or two years. It can grow normally only by natural rainfall, without trimming, and it is very easy to manage. It can save a lot of water and maintenance costs by popularizing and applying in landscaping. According to calculations, under the condition of ensuring good growth, Ophiopogon can save more than 1/3 of water per year compared with white clover of the same area, saving 2/3 of management costs; 1/4 of water can be saved compared to cold-season lawns of the same area, saving conservation Cost 1/2 ^[6]