[Efficacy]

Diverging wind-cold, ventilating lung and resolving phlegm.

[Indications]

syndrome/pattern of wind and cold attacking the external. Symptoms include fever aversion to cold, headache without sweating, cough phlegm that is thin and white, nasal congestion, dry throat, white and thin coating, and floating or stringy pulse.

This prescription is suitable for external contraction syndrome of cool dryness and lung qi failing in dispersion. In the prescription, Bitter Apricot Seed is bitter, warm and moist, capable of ventilating lung and relieving cough resolving phlegm; perilla leaf is pungent and warm, causing sweating slightly and causing cool dryness. The main drug is decomposed from the surface; Platycodon Root, Submature Bitter Orange rise and fall, helping Bitter Apricot Seed ventilating lung and relieving cough; Peucedanum dispersing wind descending qi, help Bitter Apricot Seed, Cultivated Purple Perilla Leaf light expression to remove phlegm, both minister medicinal; Pineilia, Dried Tangerine Peel, Poria, regulating qi and invigorating spleen resolving phlegm for assistant medicinal; Fresh Ginger Rhizome , Chinese Date, Liquorice Root harmonizing nutrient and defensive aspects, coordinating all medicines to work together. This prescription is used together with bitter and warm, pungent and sweet, which is in line with what Suwen ‧ Zhizhenyao Da Lun said: "When dryness and excessiveness are inside, treat it with bitter and warm, and supplement it with sweet and pungent." theory.

1. fever aversion to cold.
2. headache without sweating.
3. cough phlegm thin.
4. The coating is white and thin.
5. Pulse is floating or stringy.

[Addition and subtraction]

1. aversion to cold or worse: add fistular onion stalk, Fermented Soybean.
2. For severe headache: add Saposhnikovia Root, Sichuan Lovage Rhizome.
3. For those with more phlegm: add Aster and Fritillaria Bulb.
4. fever: Add Bupleurum, Skullcap Root.
5. Wheezing: Add cultivated puple perilla fruit and Ephedra.
6. Those with chest tightness and bloating: add Cyperus and Platycodon Root.
7. For nasal congestion: add Magnolia, Dahurian Angelica.

[Modern application]

common cold, influenza, bronchitis, cough, chronic rhinitis.