[Efficacy]

descending qi 开 phlegm, reducing swelling and relieving asthma.

[Indications]

Used for cough, phlegm, stuffiness, anorexia, abdominal distension and fullness, white and greasy tongue coating, and slippery pulse.

[Prescription]

This prescription is a commonly used antiasthmatic and resolving phlegm agent. It is often used clinically to treat symptoms such as excessive phlegm, cough, abdominal distension and fullness, and laziness in the elderly. The spleen and stomach are the foundation of acquired life, the source of the generation and transformation of qi and blood, and are responsible for the ups and downs, transportation and transformation of functions, so the five zang-organs are all endowed with the spleen and stomach. If there is spleen-stomach weakness, failure in transportation and transformation, and abnormal rise and fall, the water and grain will not be transformed into subtle substances, but will condense into phlegm. The phlegm will cause qi stagnation, so the chest stuffiness will be too much; phlegm will follow the rising of qi, and lung qi will be blocked and will not descend. , so cough means wheezing; spleen-stomach weakness means that the water cannot be consumed, and the stomach will be dull and the abdomen will be distended. Use cultivated puple perilla fruit to lowering qi and eliminate phlegm, to relieve cough and asthma; white mustard seed to relieve phlegm and improve qi, the predecessors once said: "phlegm is under the ribs" "Those outside the membrane cannot be eliminated." radish seed descending qi and resolving phlegm, promoting digestion and removing food stagnation. The three are all used to treat phlegm. In the combination of medicinals, each one shows its strengths. When used together, it descends qi and resolving phlegm, and has the benefit of eliminating stuffiness and relieving asthma.