Fritillaria callicola (Zhebei)

Distribution:
Chuan bei mu: Sichuan, Yunnan, Xizang

Zhe bei mu: Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan

Properties (characteristics):
Chuan bei mu: mildly cold, sweet, bitter
Zhe bei mu: bitter cold

Channels (meridians) entered:
Heart, lung
 
Actions & Indications:
Clears lung heat and rids of phlegm, hot cough due to yinxu with thick phlegm, breast scrofula, nodules, external application for boils.

Chuan bei mu is mildly cold and good for moisturizing: Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis, chronic cough that injured yin ( into yinxu), dry cough without phlegm.

zhe bei mu is colder than chuan bei mu: its purging is stronger than chuan bei mu. It is used for getting rid of stagnant phlegm, stopping cough. Suitable for cough with yellow phlegm.

Medical Function:
1. Suppress cough and expels phlegm.
2. Small amount of the saponin can raise blood pressure of dogs, cats, and rabbits while large amount can lower it.
3. injection of 7.5 ml/kg peimine to rabbits, increased blood sugar and it was able to maintain it for more than 2 hours.
4. antibiotic effect.

Chemical Ingredients:
1. Chuan bei mu: chinpeimine, sonpeimine, fritimine, sipemine.
2. An zi bei mu: songbeisine, 26-Imino-17, 23beta-oxido-5alpha-jerv-12-en-11-oxo-3beta-ol.
3. Gansu bei mu: minpeimine, minpeiminine.
4. Suo sha bei mu: Imperialine, Delavine, Delavinone, Chuanbeinone, Dalafrinone [(22S, 25S) -3beta, 16Beta-dihydroxy-5alpha-cevanin-6-one], Dalafrine[ (22S, 25S) -5alpha-cevanine-3beta, 6beta, 16beta-triol] (22R, 25S) - Solanid-5-enine-3beta, 5alpha, 6beta-triol, beilupeimine, fritiminine.
5. Zhe bei mu: peimine, peiminine, propeimine, peimidine, peimiphine, peimisine, peimitidinek, isoverticine, peimisnoside.
 
Dosage:
For decoction: 3 to 10 g. As powder form (mixed in water): 1 to 2 g.
 
Cautions:
Not to use by those withpixu (spleen deficient), cold, with wet phlegm and cold cough. Also not to use she dan chuan bei mo, chen pi chuan bei mo, chuan bei mu, fu fang she dan chuan bei mo. Raw bei mu is toxic and not for internal use.