Wutong leaves
There is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine that "wutong is the prophet of autumn qi", and the Collection of Guizhou Folk Prescriptions also says: "It can relieve cough and phlegm, remove rheumatism, treat numbness, and externally use it to stop bleeding caused by knife wounds." Therefore, this medicine is put at the beginning to tell everyone that it is mainly used as a guiding drug in the formula. Generally, it is added to the therapeutic formula for medicine, with a dosage of 3 grams. It can be decocted first or decocted together.
Wooden Butterfly
Also known as Qian Zhang Zhi, Dou Ling, and 300 taels of silver medicine ("Diannan Bencao"), Yu Die ("Zhang Yuqing Medical Case"), and Yun Gu Zhi ("Veterinary Commonly Used Traditional Chinese Medicine"), they are dry and mature seeds of the woody butterfly plant in the family Verbenaceae, mainly produced in Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guizhou. In addition, Fujian, Guangdong, and Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan also produce a small amount.
The taste is bitter and cold, entering the lungs and liver meridians. Its main functions include moistening the lungs, soothing the liver, harmonizing the stomach, and promoting muscle growth. Treat cough, sore throat, hoarseness, liver and stomach qi pain, and uncontrolled sores. Not only is it often paired with summer dry grass to treat dry cough. This medicine is very famous in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, and experts in treating cough have studied it. The use of this medicine can treat dry cough and emphysema.
Selection: ① For the treatment of acute bronchitis, pertussis, etc.: one coin for Wooden Butterflies, three coins for Annanzi, one and a half coins for Platycodon grandiflorus, one coin for Licorice, three coins for Mulberry White Paper, and three coins for Winter Flower. Boil in water, add three liang of rock sugar, dissolve in the medicine, make syrup, take it several times a day, and take it frequently. (Modern Practical Traditional Chinese Medicine Cough Syrup)
② Treatment of liver qi pain: Twenty to thirty wooden butterflies, roasted and finely ground on copper chopsticks, mixed with good wine. (Supplement to the Compendium)
Baibu
Also known as Souyao (Tao Hongjing), Baitiao Gen, Yetianmendong, Bainai (Yang Shi Shi Shi Fang), Jiucong Gen (Cao Mu Bian Fang), Jiuchong Gen (Classified Herbal Nature), they are the tuberous roots of plants in the family Baibiaceae, including the creeping, upright, or opposite leaf Baibiao. The taste is sweet and bitter, slightly warm, and enters the lung meridian. Its main functions include warming and moistening lung qi, relieving cough, and killing insects. Treating wind cold cough, pertussis, pulmonary tuberculosis, elderly cough and asthma, roundworm and pinworm diseases, skin scabies, and eczema.
Selection: ① Treatment for lung cold obstruction and slight phlegm: 100 parts and 32 liang (stir fried), ephedra, and 40 almonds. The top is the end, and the honey balls are as big as the thicket. When heated, add fifty pieces of pine nuts and meat, and sugar balls, which contain a great deal of flavor. (Bai Bu Wan in "The Direct Formula of Pediatric Medicine")
② The invasion of cold pathogenic factors into the skin and hair, even reaching the lungs, makes people cough: Platycodon grandiflorus -5 cents, licorice (roasted) -5 cents, Bai Qian -5 cents, Orange Red -1 coin; A hundred parts cost one and a half, and a purple aster costs one and a half. Boiled in water. (Zhisou San in "Medical Mind Understanding")
③ To treat cough caused by death: ginger juice, baibu juice. Mix and boil together, take two in one. (To fill the gap behind the elbow,)
④ Treatment of cough: Baibu Root Stain Wine, take one liter per warm drink, three times a day. (Zhang Wenzhong)
⑤ Long term coughing and drooling, severe loss of body fluids, gradually leading to pulmonary impotence, fever in the afternoon, strong nasal congestion, and fullness in the ankle. When lying on the left side, less coughing is stopped, and coughing on the right side will continue. In severe cases, asthma will occur, and the disease will be critical: three coins each for Baibu, Coix seed, Lily, and Maimendong, and five cents each for Sangbai, Baifu Ling, Shashen, Huangqi, and Digupi. Boiled in water. (Baibu Tang from "Compendium of Materia Medica")
Winter flower
The flower buds of the Asteraceae plant Lonicera japonica, also known as the winter flower (from the Wan Family's Manuscript), the relief flower (from the Complete Book of Sore Experience), and the reading lantern flower (from the Compendium of Materia Medica's Chongyuan Collection), are the same as those of the Asteraceae plant Lonicera japonica. The taste is spicy and warm, entering the lung meridian. Its main function is to moisten the lungs and lower qi, dissolve phlegm and stop coughing. Treat cough, wheezing, and sore throat.
Selection: ① Treatment for Outbreak Cough: Two liang of winter flowers, half liang of mulberry root white paper (filed), half liang of fritillaria (removed from the heart), half liang of Schisandra chinensis, and half liang of licorice (roasted, filed), one portion of Zhimu, and three portions of almonds (peeled and pointed, stir fried, ground). Top seven flavors, roughly mash and sieve, take three daggers per serving, one cup of water, fry until 70%, remove impurities and warm up. (Winter Flower Soup from Shengji Zonglu)
② For a long time, there is no stopping: three liang of purple aster and three liang of winter flowers. Roughly pounding Luo into powder, take three coins per serving, one medium cup of water, half a portion of ginger, decoct until six minutes, remove impurities and warm up, take three to four times a day. (Purple Aster Powder in "Shenghui Fang")
③ To treat wheezing and coughing, or if there is blood in the phlegm: winter flowers and lilies (steamed, roasted). The upper grade is divided into fine powder, and honey is refined into pills, as big as longan. Take one pill each time, chew it carefully while lying down after eating, swallow the ginger soup, and it's best to dissolve it in the water. (Baihua Gao from "Ji Sheng Fang")
Platycodon grandiflorus
Synonyms such as 蔰, Baiyao, Liru, Gencao, and Luru (Wu Pu Bencao), Fangtu, and Shepherd's purse (Bielu) are the roots of Platycodon grandiflorus, a plant in the family Platycodon. The taste is bitter, pungent, and flat, entering the lungs and stomach meridians. The main function is to promote lung qi, expel phlegm and discharge pus. Treat external coughing, sore throat, lung abscess and purulent discharge, chest and flank pain, dysentery and abdominal pain.
Prescription: ① Treat carbuncle, cough and chest fullness, shake the cold pulse number, dry throat without thirst, sometimes turbid saliva, and vomit pus like rice porridge for a long time: one or two platycodon grandiflorum and two liang licorice. Take three liters of water, boil one liter, divide the temperature before taking it, and then vomit pus and blood. (Platycodon grandiflorus decoction in "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber")
② Treating phlegm, coughing, asthma, and restlessness: Platycodon grandiflorus in half. Crush Luo into powder, take half a liter of boy's urine, fry it for four times, remove the dross and warm it up. (Brief Prescriptions for Benefiting All)
Almonds
Also known as apricot (from "Treatise on Cold Damage") and mulaizi (from "Shi Yao Er Ya"), they are dry seeds of plants in the Rosaceae family, such as apricot or mountain apricot, with a bitter taste. The taste is bitter, warm, toxic, and can enter the lungs and large intestine. Its main functions include expelling phlegm, relieving cough, relieving asthma, and moistening the intestines. Treat external coughing, wheezing, sore throat, intestinal dryness, and constipation. People with yin deficiency, cough, and loose stools should avoid taking it.
Selection: ① Treatment for lung cold stroke and cough: half a liang of Asarum (mashed into powder), half a liang of Almond (soaked in soup, peeled and pointed, with double kernels, stir fried with bran and slightly yellow, ground as paste). Apply the medicine, melt half a tael of wax in a bowl, then add one cent of crispy pastry each time. Then, add Asarum and almonds, making the pills as big as sheep dates. Regardless of time, wrap a pill with cotton to dissolve throat fluid. (Shenghui Fang)
② To treat cough and reflux: Three liters of almonds, mash them as paste when cooked, and one liter of honey, divided into three parts. Crush the almonds within one part to make them stronger, and another part inside to mash them as paste until cooked. Eating first already includes swallowing, how much freedom, three days a day. If the knife is not taken more than half an inch, it will cause diarrhea. ("Qian Jin Fang" Almond Pill)
③ For those who suffer from chronic pulmonary asthma, persistent cough, and inability to sleep: half a liang of almonds (peeled and slightly fried), and half a liang of walnut meat (peeled). Add a small amount of raw honey to the previous piece, and make ten pills every one or two with extremely fine grinding instructions. Take one pill each, chew ginger soup, and lie down immediately after eating. ("Yang Family Collection Recipe" Almond Fried)
④ To treat asthma and shortness of breath: half a liang each of peach kernels and almonds (with double kernels and skin tips removed, stir fried). Second taste, fine grinding, a little water mixed noodles, and pills as big as wutong. Take ten pills of ginger and honey soup per serving, with a slight benefit as the dosage. (Shuangren Maru in Shengji Zonglu)
Note that this medicine has small toxicity and should be used in small amounts.
Chuanbei
Synonyms include fly (in the Book of Songs), yellow fly (in the Guanzi section), reed (in the Erzhi section), fritillaria, empty grass (in the Benjing section), Beifu, and Yaoshi (in the Guangya section). They are the bulbs of lily family plants such as rolled leaf fritillaria, black flower fritillaria, or ribbed sand fritillaria. The taste is bitter, sweet, and cool, entering the lung meridian. The main treatment is to moisten the lungs and disperse nodules, stop coughing and reduce phlegm. Treating deficiency and fatigue, coughing, spitting and hemoptysis, chest and heart stagnation, pulmonary impotence, lung abscess, galls, chronic scrofula, sore throat, and breast abscess.
Selection: ① Treatment for lung heat, cough, and phlegm, throat dryness: half to half of the mother (heart removed), three parts of licorice (roasted), and half to half of almonds (soaked in soup, peeled, pointed, and stir fried). Above three flavors, pounding Luo into powder, refining honey balls as big as a ball. Containing pharyngeal fluid. (Beimu Pill from "The Records of Saint Ji")
② To treat a cough caused by injury and storm: three parts of Beimu (peace of mind), one or two parts of Donghua (root knot removed), Ephedra (root knot removed), almonds (soaked in soup, peeled, pointed, double kernels stir fried), and three parts of Licorice (roasted file). Top five flavors, roughly mash and sieve, take three daggers per serving, one cup of water, three slices of ginger, fry until 70%, remove impurities and warm up, no time constraints. (Beimu Soup from "Shengji Zonglu")
③ Severe cough and wheezing after treating typhoid fever; To cause lung atrophy and coughing: Fritillaria in half (simmering until slightly yellow). One or two platycodon (removing reed heads), one or two licorice (slightly red and filed), one or two purple aster (washing away seedling soil), half a liang almonds (soaked in soup, peeled, pointed, double kernels, stir fried with bran and slightly yellow). It is the end of mashing the silk with medicine, and the honey pills are as big as the wutong seeds. Take 20 pills of Congee every time you take it, regardless of the time; As big as a ball, a pill of Mianxiang is also good for swallowing. (Shenghuili Beimu Wan) ④ Treatment for cough and wheezing in children: Beimu (heart removed, stir fried with bran) half a liang, licorice (roasted) one fen. The two ingredients are crushed into powder, such as two or three year old children. For each coin, use a dagger and water for seven cents. Fry until it reaches four cents, remove the impurities, add a small amount of cow's yellow powder, and take it in two warm portions after eating. Adjust the amount accordingly. 5. Treatment of pertussis: Chuan Beimu costs five cents, Huang Yujin, Tinglizi, Sangbai, Bai Qian, and Aristolochia each costs five cents. Co rolled into extremely fine powder for backup. 1.5 to 3 years old, 2 points per session; 4-7 years old, 5 points each time; 8-10 years old, 7 cents each time, three times a day on average, with warm water for flushing. Children can also add white sugar or honey when drinking.
Qianhu
The root of the Umbelliferae plant, Peucedanum chinense or Peucedanum chinense, has a bitter, pungent, and cool taste, and belongs to the lung and spleen meridians. Its main function is to promote wind and heat dissipation, lower qi, and reduce phlegm. Treat wind heat headache, phlegm heat cough and asthma, nausea and vomiting, chest and diaphragm tightness.
Selection: Treatment for lung heat, cough, phlegm obstruction, and dyspnea: one or two halves of Qianhu (removing Lu Tou), one or two halves of Beimu (removing Xin), and one or two pieces of Bai Qian; Maimendong (heart removed, roasted) in one or two halves, Fructus Aurantii (pulp removed, bran fried) in one or two halves, Peony (also known as) and Ephedra (root knot removed) in one or two halves each, and Rhubarb (steamed) in one or two halves. Top eight flavors, finely cut, like sesame beans. Take three daggers per serving, boil one cup of water, take seven parts, remove the dross, eat and warm up, two days a day. (Before Hu Yin in "Shengji Zonglu")
Siraitia grosvenorii
It is also known as lakhanate and pseudobalsam pear (Guangxi Medical Plant List), which are the fruits of the cucurbitaceae plant Momordica grosvenorii. Sweet in taste, cool in nature, non-toxic, enters the lungs and spleen meridians. Its main function is to clear the lungs and moisten the intestines. Treat whooping cough, phlegm and fire cough, blood dryness and constipation.
Recipe: for whooping cough: one siraitia fruit and five cents for persimmon. Boiled in water.
Figs
Synonyms include Ashe, Ayi, and Dizhen (from "Youyang Zazu"), Tiansheng Zi (from "Diannan Bencao"), Yingri Guo (from "Bianmin Tu Bian"), Youtan Bo (from "Guangzhou Zhi"), Honey Guo (from "Qunfang Pu"), Wen Xian Guo (from "Cao Mu Bian Fang"), Milk Berry Fruit (from "Hunan Wild Plants"), and Pin Xian Guo (from "Compilation of Commonly Used Folk Herbs"), all of which are dried flower trays of fig in the mulberry family. The taste is sweet and smooth, entering the lungs and stomach meridians. Its main function is to strengthen the stomach and clear the intestines, reduce swelling and detoxify. Treat enteritis, dysentery, constipation, hemorrhoids, sore throat, carbuncle and scabies, promote throat hygiene, stimulate appetite and expel parasites.
Used for symptoms such as loss of appetite, abdominal distension and pain, hemorrhoids and constipation, indigestion, hemorrhoids, prolapse, diarrhea, insufficient milk, sore throat, heat dysentery, cough and phlegm.
Selection: ① Treatment for sore throat: Dried fresh figs, ground into powder, and blown through the throat. (Quanzhou Materia Medica) ② Treatment of lung heat and hoarseness: Five coins of fig, boiled in water and mixed with rock sugar. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)
Tangerine peel
Also known as Hongju, Dahongpao, or Chuanju, it has a warm nature, a bitter and spicy taste, and belongs to the lung and spleen meridians. The main function is to regulate qi and invigorate the spleen, dry dampness and reduce phlegm. Used for bloating in the chest and epigastrium, vomiting and diarrhea due to insufficient food intake, and coughing with excessive phlegm.
Selection: Treatment for cough and excessive phlegm: 10g of dried tangerine peel and 50g of rice. Wash and finely chop the dried tangerine peel, boil in water to remove any residue, and filter out the juice; Clean the rice and put it into the pot, add some orange peel juice and water, cook porridge and take it once a day. Or grind the dried tangerine peel into fine powder, take 3-5 grams of it into the cooked porridge and take it, once in the morning and once in the evening. It has the effects of tonifying qi, strengthening the spleen, resolving phlegm, and relieving cough, suitable for symptoms such as excessive phlegm and chest and diaphragm tightness.
Pear
The synonym Kuai Guo (Tao Hongjing), also known as Guo Zong, Yu Ru, and Mi Fu (according to the Compendium), is mainly the fruit of cultivated plants such as Bai Li, Sha Li, and Qiu Zi Li in the Rosaceae family. The taste is sweet and slightly sour, cool, and enters the lungs and stomach meridians. Its main functions are to produce saliva, moisten dryness, clear heat, and dissolve phlegm. Treating heat diseases, Tianjin injury, restlessness and thirst, quenching thirst, hot cough, phlegm heat shock, choking, and constipation.
Selected by:
① Treating cough and stroke: One pear, pierced into fifty holes, with one pepper inside each hole. Wrap the flour in hot ash and simmer until cooked. Remove from heat, stop cooling, and eat with the pepper removed. Two pears, pitted, with crispy honey added, wrapped in flour and cooked until cooked, serve. Three pears, mash one liter of juice, crispy one or two, honey one or two, and one liter of Rehmannia juice. Simmer over low heat, savor and swallow. All treatments for coughing require waiting for the cold and breathing to settle before eating. Eating hot food can backfire and make coughing even more extreme and irreparable. In this way, it can be made into lamb soup pancakes to make a full meal, and then lie down for less time. (Meng Shen Fang)
② Treating phlegm and shortness of breath: Pear, remove the empty space, fill with small black beans, keep the lid closed, tie it in place, simmer it over bran heat, mash it into a cake, and eat it daily. ("Picking Yuan Fang")
③ Clear phlegm and stop coughing: Pear, used for mashing juice, also good for boiling ointment, with ginger juice and white honey added.
Derived from: "Chinese Medicinal Prescriptions"