There are many kinds of cough medicines in pharmacies, and many proprietary Chinese medicines that seem to have similar names are different in composition, and their efficacy is also different, such as luo han guo jade bamboo granules, compound luo han guo cough granules, Chuanbei luo han cough granules, these three seem to be the same, but the actual efficacy and applicable populations have obvious differences, specific we look at one by one.
01
Luo Han Guo Jade Bamboo Granules
Main ingredients: monk fruit, jade bamboo.
Indications for function: nourishing yin and moisturizing lungs, suppressing cough and living jin. For dry lungs cough, dry sore throat.
Component analysis:
(1) Luo Han Guo: clear heat and moisturize the lungs, slippery intestine laxative, used for lung fire cough, sore throat aphonia, dry bowel constipation.
(2) Jade bamboo: nourishing yin and dryness, quenching thirst, used for lung and stomach yin injury, dry and hot cough, dry throat thirst, internal heat to quench thirst.
Drug features: clear fever, cough, nourish yin, moisturize the lungs, shengjin.
Suitable for people: people with dry lungs and cough in autumn.
Precautions: During the medication, attention should be paid to a light diet, and spicy, cold and greasy foods should be avoided.
Combination of drugs: monk fruit jade bamboo granules + dextromethorphan hydrobromide syrup
02
Compound monk fruit cough granules
Main ingredients: monk fruit, mulberry white peel, hundred parts, loquat leaf, white front, platycodon.
Indications for treatment: clear heat and diarrhea lungs, antitussive and expectorant. It is used for lung fever, lung dry cough.
(1) Luo Han Guo: clear heat and moisturize the lungs, slippery intestine laxative, used for lung fire cough, sore throat, dry bowel constipation.
(2) Mulberry white skin: diarrhea lung asthma, water reduction, used for lung fever and cough, water swelling full of less urine, puffy skin.
(3) 100 parts: moisturize the lungs and relieve cough, insecticide, used for new cough, tuberculosis cough, whooping cough.
(4) Loquat leaf: clear lungs and cough, reduce retrograde vomiting, used for lung fever cough, breath reversal, stomach heat vomiting, irritation and thirst.
(5) White front: deflation, sputum elimination, cough, used for lung qi solid, cough phlegm, chest full of wheezing.
(6) Platycodon: lung promotion, pharynx, expectorant, discharge of pus, used for coughing phlegm, chest tightness, sore throat, hoarseness, pulmonary carbuncle spit pus, sores and pus into non-ulceration.
Drug characteristics: clear lung heat, diarrhea in the lungs of damp heat and phlegm wet water drinking, set cough, expectorant, asthma in one.
Suitable for people: people with pulmonary fever cough or dry lung cough.
Precautions: Insufficient lung qi, cold and wind chills are contraindicated.
Combination: compound monk fruit cough granules + ambroxol hydrochloride extended-release capsules
03
Chuanbei Luohan cough granules
Main ingredients: Sichuan shellfish, loquat leaf, platycodon, menthol, monk fruit.
Indications for treatment: lung clearing, cough suppressor, expectorant. For cold and cough.
(1) Chuanbeimu: clear heat and moisturize the lungs, dissolve phlegm and relieve cough, used for lung heat and dry cough, dry cough and less phlegm, yin deficiency and labor, coughing sputum with blood
(2) Loquat leaf: clear lungs and cough, reduce retrograde vomiting, used for lung heat cough, breath reversal wheezing, stomach heat vomiting reversal, irritable heat and thirst.
(3) Platycodon: lung promotion, pharynx, expectorant, discharge of pus, used for coughing phlegm, chest tightness, sore throat, hoarseness, pulmonary carbuncle spit pus, sores and pus into non-ulceration.
(4) Menthol: aromatic, flavoring and anti-wind repellents, which can be used to create a cooling sensation on the skin or mucous membranes to reduce discomfort and pain.
(5) Luo Han Guo: clear heat and moisturize the lungs, smooth intestine laxative, used for lung fire cough, sore throat, dry bowel constipation.
Drug features: fever, expectorant, cough, wind, pharynx.
Suitable people: cold and cough people (wind evil lungs, more mixed with heat evil), such people are often accompanied by nasal congestion, runny nose, headache, bad wind and other symptoms.
Precautions: Avoid spicy and greasy foods during medication.
Combination of medication: Chuanbei Luohan cough granules + ammonia yellowmin capsules
Similarities and differences between the three drugs
(1) Similarities:
(1) The three medicinal ingredients all contain monk fruit.
(2) The three drugs can have the effect of clearing heat, moisturizing the lungs and suppressing cough.
(2) Differences:
(1) There are certain differences in the composition of the three.
(2) There are certain differences in efficacy between the three. Luo Han Guo Yu zhu granules clear lungs, moisturize the lungs, more suitable for dry and evil lungs, fever and injury caused by dry cough, such people often manifest as dry cough less phlegm, more often in autumn; compound Luo Han Guo cough granules clear diarrhea lung heat effect is stronger, both antitussive, but also can expectorant, for lung fever cough cough and lung dry cough are applicable; Chuanbei Luohan cough granules clear heat, dispel wind, more suitable for wind evil lung people, in addition to its ingredients in the menthol diuretic effect is strong, for alleviating pharyngeal discomfort effect is obvious.
The above is a brief introduction to the three common monk fruit cough granules, but also to remind you pharmacists, cough medicine has a wide variety of traditional Chinese medicines, many names are similar, but due to different compositions, the efficacy is more or less different, we must dialectical medication, in order to play the best therapeutic effect.
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