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Zi Wan 500g Tatarian Aster Root Radix Asteris Aster Tataricus L. f.
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紫菀
Naming
Zi Wan (Radix Asteris)——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)
Zi Wan Tatarian Aster Root Radix Asteris
The Processing of 紫菀
Origin
The dry root and Rhizoma of perennial herbaceous plant Aster tataricus L. f. of family Compositae.
Location
Hebei, Anhui and Heilongjiang provinces and so on in China.
Harvest
Collected in spring and autumn.
The actual smell and taste
Lightly fragrant smell, sweet and slightly bitter taste.
Best quality
Long, violet, soft and elastic, without stem and sprout.
Processing
Dried in the sun or stir-baked with honey.
The Effect of 紫菀
Property
Bitter, pungent, sweet, slightly warm; lung meridian entered.
Actions
Moisten lung to resolve phlegm and stop cough.
Indications
Cough with phlegm
It is often used after stir-baked with honey. Being sweet in flavor, it is moistening. Being bitter in flavor, it is purging. It is pungent and warm without dryness. So it is good at directing qi downward also moistening lung to stop cough and resolving phlegm, it is combined with herbs to treat cough with phlegm caused by external contraction or internal injury, or cold and heat, or deficiency and excess syndromes. For cough due to wind-cold with symptoms of persistent cough and dryness phlegm, it is often combined with wind-cold-dispersing herbs and lung-ventilating to resolve phlegm and stop cough herbs, such as Jing Jie and Jie Geng and so on. For cough due to lung heat with symptoms of profuse yellow thick phlegm, it is often combined with heat-clearing and phlegm-resolving herbs, such as Huang Qin and Chuan Bei Mu and so on. For cough due to lung yin deficiency with symptoms of bloody phlegm, it is often combined with E Jiao, Chuan Bei Mu and Zhi Mu and so on, in Wang Hai Zang Zi Wan Tang.
Dosage and Administrations
Decoct 3~10 g. It is mostly stir-baked with honey.
Quality Assurance
This bulk herb Zi Wan 紫菀 Tatarian Aster Root Radix Asteris Aster Tataricus L. f. is of premium quality. Our bulk Chinese herbs are mostly wild harvested but some herbs are farm grown to protect their natural habitats and meet incremental market demands. The harvests of right species at proper maturity are identified by experienced professionals, cleaned, cut or sliced, and dried. Cases, special processing methods such as soaking with rice wine, steaming, roasting are applied as mandated by traditional Chinese medicine traditions to prepare the Chinese herbs to achieve desired properties, enhance efficacy, and reduce toxicity.
Warning
In the course of formulas to enhance each other's desirable action and to minimize any potential side effect. In TCM, Chinese herbs are mostly combined in the context of formulas to enhance each other's desirable action and to minimize any potential side effect.
紫菀
Naming
Zi Wan (Radix Asteris)——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)
Zi Wan Tatarian Aster Root Radix Asteris
The Processing of 紫菀
Origin
The dry root and Rhizoma of perennial herbaceous plant Aster tataricus L. f. of family Compositae.
Location
Hebei, Anhui and Heilongjiang provinces and so on in China.
Harvest
Collected in spring and autumn.
The actual smell and taste
Lightly fragrant smell, sweet and slightly bitter taste.
Best quality
Long, violet, soft and elastic, without stem and sprout.
Processing
Dried in the sun or stir-baked with honey.
The Effect of 紫菀
Property
Bitter, pungent, sweet, slightly warm; lung meridian entered.
Actions
Moisten lung to resolve phlegm and stop cough.
Indications
Cough with phlegm
It is often used after stir-baked with honey. Being sweet in flavor, it is moistening. Being bitter in flavor, it is purging. It is pungent and warm without dryness. So it is good at directing qi downward also moistening lung to stop cough and resolving phlegm, it is combined with herbs to treat cough with phlegm caused by external contraction or internal injury, or cold and heat, or deficiency and excess syndromes. For cough due to wind-cold with symptoms of persistent cough and dryness phlegm, it is often combined with wind-cold-dispersing herbs and lung-ventilating to resolve phlegm and stop cough herbs, such as Jing Jie and Jie Geng and so on. For cough due to lung heat with symptoms of profuse yellow thick phlegm, it is often combined with heat-clearing and phlegm-resolving herbs, such as Huang Qin and Chuan Bei Mu and so on. For cough due to lung yin deficiency with symptoms of bloody phlegm, it is often combined with E Jiao, Chuan Bei Mu and Zhi Mu and so on, in Wang Hai Zang Zi Wan Tang.
Dosage and Administrations
Decoct 3~10 g. It is mostly stir-baked with honey.
Quality Assurance
This bulk herb Zi Wan 紫菀 Tatarian Aster Root Radix Asteris Aster Tataricus L. f. is of premium quality. Our bulk Chinese herbs are mostly wild harvested but some herbs are farm grown to protect their natural habitats and meet incremental market demands. The harvests of right species at proper maturity are identified by experienced professionals, cleaned, cut or sliced, and dried. Cases, special processing methods such as soaking with rice wine, steaming, roasting are applied as mandated by traditional Chinese medicine traditions to prepare the Chinese herbs to achieve desired properties, enhance efficacy, and reduce toxicity.
Warning
In the course of formulas to enhance each other's desirable action and to minimize any potential side effect. In TCM, Chinese herbs are mostly combined in the context of formulas to enhance each other's desirable action and to minimize any potential side effect.













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