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

• 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 hemoptysis. Benefits cases in which pathogenic dryness has attacked the Lung and is causing symptoms of a non-productive dry cough.
• Wind heat attack with dryness
• Mild dry cough
• Moderate dry cough
• Chronic dry cough
• Chronc cough due to lung heat with scany yellow, difficult to expectorated sputum

• 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 polydipsia
• Good for chronic respiratory disorders such as tuberculosis or cancer
• Best used to treat constipation caused by dryness and heat accumulation
• Also benefits constipation due to yin deficiency and blood deficiency
• Benefits sore throat due to deficient fire or Lung heat.