bubble_chart Efficacy

Clear the lungs and relieve heat, stop coughing and calm wheezing.

bubble_chart Indications

Lung heat syndrome with cough and panting, skin steaming heat especially in the afternoon, red tongue with yellow coating, and thin rapid pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

This formula is also known as the Lung-Draining Powder, suitable for the syndrome of panting and coughing due to latent fire stagnation and heat in the lungs. The disease of this formula is located in the lungs, characterized by latent fire stagnation and heat. During the course of the disease, the lung yin has been damaged by heat, hence the treatment should focus on clearing lung heat with sweet and cold properties. In the formula, White Mulberry Root-Bark is used to drain lung heat, lower lung qi, and relieve coughing and panting, serving as the sovereign medicinal. Chinese Wolfberry Root-bark is used as the minister medicinal to clear lung heat and relieve steaming bone fever and muscle heat. The sovereign and minister medicinals work together to drain the latent fire in the lungs and relieve coughing and panting. Rice and roasted Liquorice Root are used as adjuvant medicinals to nourish the stomach and harmonize the middle, thereby supporting lung qi. Roasted Liquorice Root also serves to harmonize the various medicinals and acts as the guiding medicinal. The characteristic of this formula is that it neither clears and disperses the substantial heat in the lungs to treat the symptoms, nor nourishes yin and moistens the lungs to treat the root cause. Instead, it clears and drains the latent fire in the lungs to eliminate stagnant heat, providing a dual approach to both symptoms and root cause, particularly beneficial for children with a "tender yin" constitution.

1. Cough without phlegm.
2. Skin steaming heat.
3. Red tongue with yellow coating.
4. Thin and rapid pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

1. Lung heat is severe: add Anemarrhena, Skullcap Root, or combine with Ephedra, Bitter Apricot Seed, Gypsum, and Licorice Decoction.
2. Dryness-heat cough: add Fritillaria Bulb, Trichosanthis Fruit, Coastal Glehnia Root, Bitter Apricot Seed.
3. Fever and chills: add Bupleurum, Peony Root.
4. Dysphoria and thirst: add Ophiopogon Tuber, Schisandra Fruit.
5. Cough with wheezing: add Platycodon Root, Bitter Apricot Seed, Cultivated Purple Perilla Fruit.
6. Qi deficiency is severe: add Ginseng, Astragalus Root.
7. Yin deficiency with tidal fever: add Sweet Wormwood, Turtle Carapace, Starwort Root.
8. Thirst and sore throat: add Ophiopogon Tuber, Dendrobium, Scrophularia Root.

bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications

This formula is not suitable for cough caused by wind-cold external contraction.

bubble_chart Modern Application

This prescription reduces fever, combats tuberculosis, and relieves cough. It is used for pediatric pneumonia, bronchitis, whooping cough, pleurisy, subcutaneous nodules of the lung, and panting.