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Fang nameLung-Clearing Decoction
sourceA Complete Book Of Folk Secret Recipes
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[Preparation method and dosage]

Liquorice Root (Radix Glycyrrhizae)
Skullcap Root (Radix Scutellariae)
Platycodon Root (Radix Platycodonis)
Poria (Poria)
Dried Tangerine Peel (Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae)
Chinese Angelica (Radix Angelicae Sinensis)
Asparagus Root (Radix Asparagi)
Gardenia (Fructus Gardeniae)
Bitter Apricot Seed (Semen Armeniacae Amarum)
Ophiopogon Tuber (Radix Ophiopogonis)
Schisandra Fruit (Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis)
Fresh Ginger Rhizome (Rhizoma Zingiberis)
Chinese Date (Fructus Jujubae)
Bamboo Shavings (Caulis Bambusae in Taeniam)

[Efficacy]

clearing heat and resolving phlegm, nourishing yin and relieving cough.

[Indications]

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.

[Prescription]

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]

  1. cough phlegm multi-colored yellow.
  2. Dry mouth and fluid retention.
  3. Red tongue and yellow coating.
  4. The pulse is thin and rapid.

[Addition and subtraction]

  1. Kac phlegm is difficult to get out: add Trichosanthis Fruit, Immature Orange Fruit, bomboo juice.
  2. Cough: add cultivated puple perilla fruit, bomboo juice.
  3. Baked face and hot body: add Peony Root, Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, Aster, Donkey-hide Gelatin.
  4. Chronic cough and excessive sweating: add White Atractylodes Rhizome, Peony Root, Unprocessed Rehmannia Root.
  5. cough body heat: add Bupleurum.
  6. For more cough phlegm: add White Atractylodes Rhizome, Inula Herb.

[Attention to taboos]

Avoid spicy, fat and greasy products.

[Modern application]

Bronchitis, bronchiectasis, bronchial asthma, pneumonia.

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