bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage Take Fresh Ginger Rhizome decocted with water orally.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Dispersing wind and diffusing the lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
bubble_chart Indications
Common cold with cough, qi counterflow headache, profuse yellow phlegm, dry mouth and throat, thin yellow tongue coating, floating pulse.
bubble_chart Formula Principles
This formula combines the use of releasing exterior and dissipating cold with clearing heat and resolving phlegm, suitable for conditions such as cough due to external contraction of wind pathogen accompanied by mild fever. In the formula, Perilla Leaf, Fresh Ginger Rhizome disperse wind and dissipate cold, move qi and harmonize the middle; Bitter Apricot Seed, Peucedanum descend qi and resolve phlegm, relieve cough and calm panting; White Mulberry Root-Bark, Fritillaria Bulb ventilate the lung and stabilize panting, resolve phlegm and relieve cough; Submature Bitter Orange, red tangerine exocarp, pungent and fragrant herbs dry dampness and resolve phlegm, Platycodon Root clear the lung and benefit the diaphragm, carry the medicine upward, and also open blockages and release the exterior; Skullcap Root clear heat and dry dampness; Ophiopogon Tuber nourish the lung and produce fluid to moisten dryness, and prevent the excessive pungent warmth of the other herbs from damaging yin. The combination of these herbs achieves the effects of dispersing wind and releasing the exterior, ventilating the lung and relieving panting, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and clearing the lung and producing fluid.
bubble_chart Pattern Identification - common cold cough.
- qi counterflow, chest tightness.
- profuse phlegm, slightly yellow in color.
- thin yellow tongue coating.
- floating pulse.
bubble_chart Formula Modification
- fever and chills: add Schizonepeta, Mentha.
- dry mouth and sore throat: add Lonicera, Forsythia, Belamcanda Rhizome, Scrophularia Root, Gypsum, Skullcap Root.
- with wheezing: add cultivated purple perilla fruit, Pepperweed Seed.
- headache: add Saposhnikovia Root, Chinese Lovage.
- pediatric spleen deficiency: add Ginseng.
- vomiting: add Patchouli, Cardamon Fruit.
bubble_chart Modern Application
Common cold, influenza, bronchitis, wheezing, cough.