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Other Names : Fritillaria Bulb, Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae, 川贝, 川贝母, 贝母, 川貝母, 川貝, 貝母, Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing<br>Chuan Bei Mu is the smaller fritillaria bulb from the Chuan province.<br>See also 
*[[Zhe Bei Mu]] (is the larger bulb from Zhe province)
* [[Fritillaria]]
==Special Precautions of Chuan Bei Mu==
Incompatible with Wu Tou.
==Actions==
* Clears heat, transforms phlegm, stops many types of cough (chronic, yin-deficient, difficult to expectorate phlegm, blood streaked sputum); best for cough with stifling sensation in the chest and upper abdomen (constrained qi).
*Clears heat, dissipates nodules due to heat - sores, swellings, scrofula, lung or breast abscess.
==Benefits and uses of Chuan Bei Mu are==
* Dry cough due to lung heat : This herb is bitter in flavor and lightly cold in nature. It can clear lung, purge heat and resolve phlegm. Furthermore it can moisten and resolve dry-phlegm in the terms of its sweet flavor and moist nature. It can also stop cough. So it is indicated for the syndrome of heat-phlegm and dry-phlegm especially for long-term cough due to internal injury and dryness of lung due to yin deficiency manifested by scanty phlegm and dry throat or bloody phlegm. For consumptive cough due to deficiency of lung yin and long-term productive cough, it is combined with yin-nourishing, lung-moistening and phlegm-resolving herbs such as Bei Sha Shen, Nan Sha Shen, Mai Dong. For cough caused by lung heat and dryness, it is usually combined with Zhi Mu in Er Mu San from Ji Jiu Xian Fang (Fairy prescriptions for first-aid) in order to clear heat, moisten dryness, resolve phlegm and stop cough. For excessive phlegm-heat, it is combined with heat-clearing and phlegm-resolving herbs. For instance it is combined with She Dan Zhi and made into patent of She Dan Chuan Bei Mo (Ye).
* Scrofula, swollen abscess, acute mastitis, lung abscess : This herb is capable of clearing and resolving stagnant heat and resolving phlegm and dissipating nodulation. For scrofula resulted from phlegm-fire stagnation and accumulation, it is usually combined with toxicity-relieving and abscess-curing herbs as well as hardness-softening and nodulation-dissipating herbs. For instance it is combined with Xuan Shen and Mu Li, etc. in Xiao Lei Wan from Yi Xue Xin Wu. For swollen abscess and acute mastitis due to exuberant heat-toxin accumulation, it is combined with heat-clearing and toxicity-relieving herbs and abscess-removing and nodulation-dissipating herbs such as Jin Yin Hua, Lian Qiao and Pu Gong Ying]], etc. For pyemesis of lung abscess, it is combined with Jie Geng, Yu Xing Cao and Yi Yi Ren to clear heat, relieve toxicity, cure abscess and expel pus.
==Used in Patent Medecines==
* [[Hui Chun Wan]]
* [[Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa]]
* [[San Wu Xiao Bai San]]

== References ==
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