TCM: Listed under “Herbs that clear Heat”, included in “Herbs that drain Fire”, bitter, sweet, cold Anemarrhena asphodeloides enters the Lung, Stomach and Kidney channels. It clears Heat, extinguishes Fire and moistens dryness, generates fluids and ameliorates the dryness of warm or tonifying herbs.
General: For the treatment of thirst in hot diseases, for diabetes, hyperthyroidism and hypertension, Lung Heat cough, Yin deficient oral ulcers and inflammation, consumptive fever, foetal distress,constipation, and irritability. It has been shown to have antibacterial, sedative, antipyretic, hypoglycemic and adrenal tonic actions.