What are the effects, functions and methods of eating asparagus?

Asparagus is the dried tuberous root of the Asparagus cochinchinensis plant of the Liliaceae family. Dig it up in autumn and winter, wash it clean, remove the stem base and fibrous roots, boil or steam it in boiling water until it is cooked through, remove the skin while it is still hot, wash it clean, and dry it. Asparagus cochinchinensis is a tonic medicine that has both nourishing and clearing effects. The effect is relatively better when used when our body is weak. But many people don’t know how to use it or don’t even know what it is. What are the functions, effects and edible methods of asparagus?

1. Asparagus cochinchinensis is a tonic medicine that can both nourish and clear. It is good at nourishing lung yin and can also replenish kidney yin. It is more suitable for lung yin deficiency, dry cough, dry cough without disease, or yin deficiency fever, lack of body fluid, thirst and other symptoms. Asparagus cochinchinensis can be used for dry cough due to lung dryness, cough due to deficiency, thirst due to loss of body fluid, restlessness and insomnia, internal heat and thirst, and constipation due to dry intestines.

2. Asparagus cochinchinensis nourishes yin and clears the lungs, and is effective in treating lung heat, wheezing and cough. Asparagus is bitter, sweet and cold, and can treat lung abscess, pulmonary pulmonary tuberculosis and vomiting of pus and sputum. The phlegm for dry cough is sticky and moistens the lungs, and the throat is moistened when there is little fluid and thirst.

3. Cough with little sputum: 60g of Asparagus cochinchinensis, 30g each of Lilium, Peucedanum chinense, Fritillaria cirrhosa, Pinellia ternata, Platycodon grandiflorum, Morus alba, Stephania tetrandra, Aster gentiana, Ganoderma lucidum, Rehmannia glutinosa, and Apricot kernel. Grind them into fine powder, add refined honey and make into pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take 20 pills each time with ginger soup, 3 times a day. It has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, and can treat cough with little sputum, dry throat and mouth, chest tightness and shortness of breath, red tongue with little fluid, etc.

4. For dry tongue, thirst, insomnia, loss of appetite, and confusion caused by heat disease damaging yin, 9 grams of ginseng, 6 grams of asparagus, and 15 grams of rehmannia can be decocted in water and taken orally.

5. Functional uterine bleeding and bleeding caused by pregnancy weight: 15 to 30 grams of raw asparagus (30 to 90 grams of fresh asparagus), appropriate amount of brown sugar. Put the asparagus into a casserole and boil it in water for half an hour, filter the juice and add brown sugar. Take one dose per day, decoct each dose twice and drink while warm. Usually the effect can be seen after taking the medicine for two to three days.

6. Flat warts: Take an appropriate amount of fresh asparagus, break it in half, and rub the broken surface back and forth on the disinfected and punctured flat warts, twice a day, every three to five days. It usually disappears in about half a month.

The above briefly introduces the functions and effects of asparagus and how to eat it. The details mentioned above are what we can normally understand. Normally, we get very nervous when we encounter physical problems. Today's society is developing rapidly and medical facilities are relatively complete. We must maintain a good attitude and accept treatment in order to achieve good results.