[Efficacy]

nourishing yin and clearing heat, moistening dryness and resolving phlegm.

[Indications]

Lung kidney yin deficiency, syndrome/pattern of deficiency-fire flaming up. Dry throat, pain, cough, panting, bloody cough, feverish feeling in palms and soles, red tongue with less coating, thready and rapid pulse.

This prescription is a common prescription for treating cough phlegm caused by lung yin deficiency and deficiency fire flaming upward. Fangzhong Lily Bulb, Ophiopogon Tuber nourishing yin and moistening lung; Chinese Angelica, Peony Root nourishes blood and nourishes yin, Platycodon Root, Fritillaria Bulb clearing the lung and resolving phlegm It is used as an assistant to relieve cough; Liquorice Root is used to coordinate various medicines.

[Key points of syndrome differentiation]

1. Dry throat and mouth.
2. cough panting.
3. There is blood in the phlegm.
4. Red tongue with little coating.
5. The pulse is thin and rapid.

[Addition and subtraction]

1. Chest and flank swelling: Add Immature Orange Fruit and Bupleurum.
2. Aphasia and sore throat: Add Asparagus Root and Anemarrhena.
3. Cough panting: Add Bitter Apricot Seed, Magnolia Bark, Submature Bitter Orange.
4. Lung subcutaneous node: Add common bletilla pseudobulb, stemona root, Prunella.
5. phlegm is yellow and thick: add Trichosanthis Fruit and Bamboo Shavings.
6. Cough phlegm with blood: add lalang grass rhizome, hairyvein agrimonia herb.
7. hemoptysis Chest tightness: combined with Seven-Li-Weight Powder.
8. Bronchiectasis hemoptysis: Add Indigo.

[Attention to taboos]

1. This prescription should not be used if the patient has a bloody cough, liver fire, or excessive lung heat.
2. This medicine is sweet, cold and greasy, and should be used with caution by those with spleen deficiency and loose stool.

[Modern application]

Lung subcutaneous node, lung cancer, bronchiectasis hemoptysis, pneumonia late stage [third stage], chronic hepatitis, chronic pharyngitis, chronic sore throat, flat warts.