 Lily
bulb (Baihe)
Pharmaceutical Name : Bulbus Lilii
Botanical Name : 1. Lilium brownii var.
viridulum Baker; 2. Lilium pumilum DC.; 3.
Lilium lancifolium Thunb.
Common Name : Lily bulb
Source of Earliest Record : Shennong Bencao
Jing
Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical
Preparations : The bulbs are gathered in autumn.
After they are cleaned, the bulbs are washed
in boiled water or steamed, then dried in
the sun or baked.
 Properties & Taste : Sweet and slightly
cold
Meridians: Lung and heart
Functions:
• Clearing away heart-fire to tranquilize the mind.
• Nourishes the lung
• Relieves cough
• Clearing away heart-fire to tranquilize the mind.
• Stops irritability, insomnia, palpitation, vague mind and dreaminess.
Indications & Combinations:
1. Deficient yin of the lung with excessive
fire manifested as cough and hemoptysis. Lily
bulb (Baihe) is used with Scrophularia (Xuanshen),
Tendrilled fritillary bulb (Chuanbeimu) and
Fresh rehmannia root (Shengdihuang) in the
formula Baihe Gujin Tang.
2. The later stage of febrile diseases with
residual heat manifested as irritability,
palpitations, insomnia and dreamful sleep.
Lily bulb (Baihe) is used with Anemarrhena
rhizome (Zhimu) and Fresh rehmannia root (Shengdihuang)
in the formula Baihe Dihuang Tang.
Dosage: 10-30 g |
