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title: "Mai Men Dong"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/544/mai-men-dong"
---

 ![main men dong, ophiopogonis radix.jpg](/u/main-men-dong-ophiopogonis-radix-zXfs8o.jpg) 

# Mai Men Dong

### Opiopogonis Radix

_sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Tonify Yin**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Cough
- Dry mouth
- Dry tongue
- Irritability
- Fever
- Constipation

Mai Men Dong is sweet, slightly bitter, and slightly cold. It enters
the stomach, lung, and heart systems. Mai Men Dong’s sweet
property is nourishing to yin functions and generates fluids
internally.

Mai Men Dong can treat coughs that are dry or that present with
thick difficult to expectorate sputum or coughing up blood.

**Channels:** lung, stomach, heart

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Hemoptysis
- Mood swings
- Night sweats
- Hematemesis
- Cough
- Fever
- Dysglycemia
- Menopausal disorders
- Hypoadrenia

**Formulas:**
- Ba Xian Chang Shou Wan
- Bai He Gu Jin Tang
- Cong Bai Qi Wei Yin
- Da Ding Feng Zhu
- Dao Chi Qing Xin Tang
- Di Huang Yin Zi
- Li Yan Cha
- Long Chi Qing Hun Tang
- Mai Men Dong Tang
- Mai Wei Di Huang Wan
- Mu Xiang Liu Qi Yin
- Qing Fei Tang
- Qing Gong Tang
- Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang
- Qing Ying Tang
- Qing Zao Jiu Fei Tang
- Rou Fu Bao Yuan Tang
- San Jia Fu Mai Tang
- Sha Shen Mai Dong Tang
- Sheng Mai San
- Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan
- Tong Ru Dan
- Wen Jing Tang
- Xin Jia Huang Long Tang
- Xin Yi Qing Fei Yin
- Yang Yin Qing Fei Tang
- Yi Guan Jian
- Yi Wei Yang
- Yi Yin Jian
- Yu Nu Jian
- Zeng Ye Cheng Qi Tang
- Zeng Ye Tang
- Zhi Gan Cao Tang
- Zhu Ye Shi Gao Tang

**Contraindications:** do not prescribe Mai Men Dong to
patients that present with diarrhea due to poor digestive
function or to patients that present with cough due to wind-cold

**Zoo Image:** an irritable turtle is making finger shadows inside an irritable
night time heart shape, the shadows are a coughing lung, a stomach, and
some intestines with a glass of fluids

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