[Preparation method and dosage]
[Efficacy]
dispersing wind and clearing heat, ventilating lung and relieving cough.
[Indications]
external contraction wind heat syndrome/pattern. Cough, slight sore throat, slight thirst, low body heat, red tip of tongue, white and thin coating, and floating pulse.
[Prescription]
This formula is a pungent-cool and mild formula. It is a commonly used formula for those with early onset of wind-warmth, evil in the lungs, and mild exterior heat. In the prescription, Mulberry Leaf and Chrysanthemum Flower are sweet, bitter and cool in nature, which can dissipate upper energizer wind-heat and clear the heat of the lung meridian. Together they are sovereign medicinal, and are used as Party name. I use the pungent and cool Mentha to strengthen the power of mulberry and chrysanthemum releasing exterior with pungent-cool; Platycodon Root and Bitter Apricot Seed Compatible with each other, one rises and one falls, it can clear lung qi, relieve cough and resolving phlegm; Forsythia clearing heat and removing toxin, and clear and transparent, can enhance the effect of dispersing wind and clearing heat; Reed Rhizome clearing heat and promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, both are assistant medicinal; Liquorice Root reconciles various medicines, matches Platycodon Root, It can clear disinhibiting benifiting the pharynx throat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
[Key points of syndrome differentiation]
External contraction can be used by those who have cough due to wind-heat at the beginning, slight sore throat, slight thirst, and moderate body heat.
[Addition and subtraction]
- For severe sore throat: add Great Burdock Achene, Silver Flower, Belamcanda Rhizome.
- For severe cough: add Coltsfoot Flower and Trichosanthis Fruit.
- In phlegm, add blood: add lalang grass rhizome and Hinoki cypress.
- Heat or severe thirst: add gypsum, Anemarrhena, Snakegourd Root.
- Epidemic conjunctivitis: Add Puncturevine Caltrop Fruit, Cassia Seed, Prunella.
- For severe lung heat: add Skullcap Root.
[Modern application]
This prescription reduces inflammation, reduces fever and relieves cough. Used for common cold, influenza, acute bronchitis, upper respiratory tract infection, cough, dizzy vision, epidemic conjunctivitis.