The spleen is the source of phlegm, the lungs are the phlegm storage organs, and the kidneys are the foundation of phlegm".
Everyone knows the lungs and spleen, so why is phlegm still related to the kidneys? ?
Because the spleen needs kidney yang to promote the normal operation of the subtlety of the water valley, and the kidney cannot do without the subtle of the water valley transported by the spleen for it to function.
Kidney deficiency will cause spleen deficiency, and if the spleen is deficient, the subtlety of the water valley will not be able to function normally, the kidneys will not be nourished by the subtlety of the water valley, the kidney yang deficiency and the spleen yang will also be insufficient, and the accumulation of phlegm and dampness will not be able to be transported. Therefore, the kidneys are the foundation of phlegm.
Therefore, in the treatment of phlegm and dampness, if we only focus on the lungs and spleen, and ignore the kidneys, it can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.
Zhang Xichun, a famous Chinese medicine practitioner in the Qing Dynasty, had a deep understanding of the causes of "phlegm", and took "Erchen Tang" as the core, used the method of tonifying the kidney to eliminate phlegm and dampness, and founded the "Phlegm Soup".
Jun medicine half summer, reduce the stomach reversal, to calm the stomach. The medicine is tangerine peel and poria cocos. The tangerine peel returns to the lung meridian and spleen meridian, so that the qi of the lungs and spleen can operate normally, and the phlegm is damp and phlegm.
Tuckahoe. Communicate the heart and kidneys, benefit the lungs,
Seeds, cypress seeds, black sesame seeds, white peony. It invigorates the kidney and invigorates qi, and fundamentally curbs the formation of phlegm and dampness.
White peony can also facilitate urination, the purpose of which is to make the spleen, stomach and kidney water discharge from the bladder, so as to prevent phlegm and dampness from accumulating in the spleen and kidney.
Through the conditioning of the spleen, lungs and kidneys, the qi in the body is smoothed, the metabolism of water and dampness is restored to normal, and the source of phlegm is cut off.
It is used for coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, chest fullness, palpitations, insomnia, liver inflammation, dizziness, phlegm and phlegm, phlegm nucleus, nodules, lumps and other symptoms.