Fang name | Lung-Clearing Decoction |
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source | A Complete Book Of Folk Secret Recipes |
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clearing heat and resolving phlegm, nourishing yin and relieving cough.
All symptoms include cough, yellow color of cough, discomfort when vomiting, or even blood in phlegm, dry mouth and fluid retention, red tongue, yellow and greasy coating, and thready and rapid pulse.
This prescription is suitable for phlegm coughs where heat accumulates in the lungs and yin fluid is depleted. The bitter cold of Skullcap Root, White Mulberry Root-Bark and Gardenia in the prescription can clear the lungs and relieve heat; Platycodon Root , Fritillaria Bulb, Bitter Apricot Seed, Bamboo Shavings to clear the lung and resolving phlegm to relieve cough; Asparagus Root, Ophiopogon Tuber moistens the lungs and clears away heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough; Dried Tangerine Peel, Poria regulating qi and invigorating spleen resolving phlegm, the source of Du Sheng phlegm; Chinese Angelica nourishing blood to moisten dryness, and main cough with dyspnea; Schisandra Fruit astringent lung and relieve cough, enriching yin and producing fluid; Fresh Ginger Rhizome, Chinese Date, Liquorice Root tonifying qi and Zhong, Gustomach qi, mediating various medicine. When used together with Schisandra Fruit and Liquorice Root, it has the effect of enhancing enriching yin and producing fluid.
[Key points of syndrome differentiation]Avoid spicy, fat and greasy products.
Bronchitis, bronchiectasis, bronchial asthma, pneumonia.