bubble_chart Efficacy

Disperse wind-cold, ventilate the lungs, and resolve phlegm.

bubble_chart Indications

Syndrome/pattern of wind and cold attacking the external. Symptoms include fever and chills, headache without sweating, cough with thin white phlegm, nasal congestion, dry throat, thin white tongue coating, and floating or wiry pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

This formula is suitable for the syndrome of external contraction caused by the invasion of cool dryness and the failure of lung qi in dispersion. In the formula, Bitter Apricot Seed is bitter, warm, and moist, capable of ventilating the lung and relieving cough, resolving phlegm; Perilla Leaf is pungent and warm, slightly inducing sweating, allowing the pathogenic cool dryness to be expelled from the exterior, serving as the main medicinal; Platycodon Root, Submature Bitter Orange, one ascending and one descending, assist Bitter Apricot Seed in ventilating the lung and relieving cough; Peucedanum disperses wind and descends qi, assisting Bitter Apricot Seed and cultivated purple perilla leaf in gently dispersing and reaching the exterior to eliminate phlegm, serving as minister medicinals; Pinellia, Dried Tangerine Peel, Poria, regulate qi and invigorate the spleen, resolving phlegm, serving as assistant medicinals; Fresh Ginger Rhizome, Chinese Date, Liquorice Root harmonize the nutrient and defensive aspects, coordinating all the medicinals, serving as envoy. This formula combines bitter warmth with pungent sweetness, in accordance with the theory stated in Suwen-Zhizhenyao Da Lun: "When dryness invades the interior, treat with bitter warmth, assisted by sweet and pungent."

bubble_chart Syndrome Differentiation

1. fever and chills.
2. headache without sweating.
3. cough with thin sputum.
4. thin white tongue coating.
5. floating or wiry pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

1. aversion to cold Severe cases: add Fistular Onion Stalk, Fermented Soybean.
2. headache Severe cases: add Saposhnikovia Root, Sichuan Lovage Rhizome.
3. Excessive phlegm: add Aster, Fritillaria Bulb.
4. fever: add Bupleurum, Skullcap Root.
5. Wheezing: add cultivated purple perilla fruit, Ephedra.
6. Chest tightness and bloating: add Cyperus, cultivated purple perilla stem.
7. nasal congestion: add Magnolia, Dahurian Angelica.

bubble_chart Modern Application

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