---
title: "Zi Wan"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/659/zi-wan"
---

 ![zi wan, asteris radix.jpg](/u/zi-wan-asteris-radix-qYpak0.jpg) 

# Zi Wan

### Asteris Radix

_acrid, bitter, slightly warm_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Regulate Qi**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Cough
- Inhibited urination

Zi Wan is acrid, bitter, and slightly warm. It only enters the lung
system to treat cough.

**Channels:** lung

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Pneumonia
- Cough
- Antimicrobial

**Formulas:**
- Bu Fei Tang
- Ren Shen Bu Fei Tang
- She Gan Ma Huang Tang
- Zhi Sou San

**Contraindications:** there are no contraindications
documented for Zi Wan

**Zoo Image:** a puffin in Alice in Lungerland stares at three doors, wind-heat,
wind-cold, and a deficiency door, there is a fire hydrant

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