{"id":2175,"date":"2013-05-15T03:59:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T03:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2013-05-15T03:59:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T03:59:08","slug":"asparagus-asparagus-officinalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=2175","title":{"rendered":"Asparagus ~ Asparagus officinalis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Asparagus-officinalis2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2176\" title=\"Asparagus officinalis2\" src=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Asparagus-officinalis2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Asparagus-officinalis2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Asparagus-officinalis2-332x442.jpg 332w, https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Asparagus-officinalis2.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Asparagus<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><em>Latin name<\/em>: <strong>Asparagus officinalis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Family<\/em>: Liliacea<\/p>\n<p><em>Part used<\/em>: rhizome; young shoots as food<\/p>\n<p><em>Habitat<\/em>: Europe, Western Asia, cultivated in other parts of the world<\/p>\n<p><em>Main constituents<\/em>: Steroidal glycosides (asparagosides); bitter glycosides, asparagine, folic acid, arginine, tyrosine, flavonoids, polysaccharides, flavonoids<\/p>\n<p><em>Energetics<\/em>: cold and wet, cools renal and lower urinary activity, warms lower and upper GI activity, warms parasympathetic and cools sympathetic nervous system activity, cools cardiovascular and respiratory system function<\/p>\n<p><em>Main herbal actions<\/em>: diuretic, laxative, urinary demulcent, general kidney bladder benefit, moist anabolic agent (Khalsa)<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor herbal actions<\/em>:\u00c2\u00a0 cardiac tonic, sedative, hypotensive<\/p>\n<p><em>Main medicinal uses<\/em>: kidney gravel<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor medicinal uses<\/em>: gout, dropsy, rheumatism<\/p>\n<p><em>Preparations<\/em>: dried encapsulated root, standardized extract, tincture<\/p>\n<p><em>Dose:<\/em> very mild, food-like herb, raw hwr in capsules- up to as much as 20 grams per day, as necessary (Khalsa)<\/p>\n<p><em>Contraindications<\/em>: diarrhea, pyelonephritis or other kidney infections, edema caused by impaired kidney or heart function<\/p>\n<p><em>Toxicity<\/em>: unknown<\/p>\n<p><em>Comments:<\/em> Very similar to Chinese species and Ayurvedic shatavari (A. racemosus)<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em>: http:\/\/www.viable-herbal.com\/singles\/herbs\/s112.htm, http:\/\/www.botanical.com\/botanical\/mgmh\/a\/aspar079.html#med, http:\/\/www.naturalhealthnotebook.com\/Herbs\/Latin_Herbs\/Genus-A\/Asparagus_officinalis.htmQ, Wren, R.C. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Potter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asparagus Latin name: Asparagus officinalis Family: Liliacea Part used: rhizome; young shoots as food Habitat: Europe, Western Asia, cultivated in other parts of the world Main constituents: Steroidal glycosides (asparagosides); bitter glycosides, asparagine, folic acid, arginine, tyrosine, flavonoids, polysaccharides, flavonoids Energetics: cold and wet, cools renal and lower urinary activity, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291,299,267,41,75,512,76,525,131,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardio-tonic","category-cold","category-cool","category-diuretic","category-hypotensive","category-module-3","category-sedative-properties","category-urinary-demulcent","category-warm","category-western-herbs","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}