[Efficacy]

Clearing heat, clearing up phlegm, opening knots and widening chest.

[Indications]

phlegm: Heat mutually binds under the heart, gastric stuffiness in the chest, pain when pressed, or cough phlegm: Yellow and thick tongue coating, slippery and slippery pulse.

[Prescription]

This prescription is for the treatment of phlegm, heat, thoracic accumulation syndrome. The disease caused by cold exterior syndrome/pattern is not understood. After mistreatment, evil heat invades inward, causing phlegm to heat up, or warm pathogenic qi torments body fluids to form phlegm. Mongolian Snakegourd Seed in the prescription is actually a king, clearing heat and resolving phlegm, and clearing the chest and diaphragm. Coptis Rhizome is a minister, clearing heat and purging fire to remove epigastric stuffiness. Served with Pineilia downbearing counterflow and resolving mass, dispersing purgation knot, it is matched with Coptis Rhizome, pungent dispersing and bitter descending, and Mongolian Snakegourd Seed If they are combined, moisturizing and drying will complement each other, and cold and warm will be appropriate.

1. There is a sense of oppression in the chest.
2. Chorus short breath.
3. phlegm is yellow and thick.
4. Pulse is slippery and rapid.

[Addition and subtraction]

1. alternating chills and fever: combined with Minor Bupleurum Decoction.
2. pneumonia with dyspnea and cough: combined Ephedra, Bitter Apricot Seed, Gypsum and Licorice Decoction.

[Attention to taboos]

cold syndrome/pattern use with caution.

[Modern application]

This prescription is antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, choleretic, dilates coronary stirred pulse, and resists acute myocardial ischemia. Used for pneumonia, bronchitis, thoracic membrane inflammation, costal membrane inflammation, gastritis, hyperacidity, cholelithiasis, lung qi swelling, cardiac colicky pain, pancreatitis, gastric neurosis.