bubble_chart Efficacy

Promoting fluid production and benefiting the stomach, descending counterflow of qi.

bubble_chart Indications

1. pattern of lung yin insufficiency. Cough with counterflow qi, difficulty in expectorating sputum, or coughing up frothy saliva, dry mouth and throat, feverish feeling in palms and soles, red tongue with little coating, and weak rapid pulse.
2. stomach yin deficiency pattern. Qi counterflow vomiting, thirst, dry throat, red tongue with little coating, and weak rapid pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

This prescription is suitable for the syndrome of lung and stomach yin deficiency with upward rebellion of qi and fire. In the formula, a large dose of Ophiopogon Tuber is used as the monarch herb to clear lung and stomach deficiency heat and nourish the yin of the lung and stomach. The minister herbs include Ginseng, Liquorice Root, Chinese Date, and rice, which tonify qi and nourish the stomach, ensuring that stomach qi is replenished, allowing body fluids to naturally ascend to the lung, thereby nourishing the lung and moistening the stomach. Additionally, Pinellia is used to relieve cough, unblock stomach qi, and descend counterflow qi. When combined with a large amount of Ophiopogon Tuber, it ensures that Ophiopogon Tuber nourishes without being overly greasy. The combination of these herbs restores body fluids, reduces deficiency fire, resolves phlegm, and calms qi counterflow, thereby curing all symptoms.

bubble_chart Pattern Identification

1. Coughing with sputum and frothy saliva.
2. Panting and shortness of breath.
3. Red tongue with little coating.
4. Weak and rapid pulse.
5. Hiccup and retching.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

1. lung atrophy yin deficiency Severe cases: add Coastal Glehnia Root, Polyghace Seche.
2. Severe deficiency heat: add Starwort Root, Chinese Wolfberry Root-bark.
3. Stomach and duodenal ulcers due to yin deficiency: add Chinese Yam, Donkey-hide Gelatin, Glehnia, Chinese Angelica, Peony Root, Germinated Barley.
4. Epigastric pain: add Peony Root, Dendrobium.
5. Severe cough: add Lily Bulb, Platycodon Root, Fritillaria Bulb.
6. Heart dysphoria and thirst: add Gypsum, Anemarrhena.

bubble_chart Modern Application

Chronic bronchitis, subcutaneous nodule, lung cancer, pleuritis, chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, bronchiectasis, hoarseness, whooping cough, diabetes.