The content of this article is quoted from "Sister Dandan: Read through typhoid fever"
Winter is a season dominated by cold, and in this season, the cold is very strong, and if you are not careful, it will lead to colds and coughs.
Especially children, the elderly, in this season is the most likely to cough, once coughed, there are more than a dozen or even dozens of sounds, which is very worrying and worried, if you cough at night, it will affect the family's sleep.
Why do I cough when I get cold?
Because the cold invades from the outside, it will freeze the pores of the whole body. In other words, after being exposed to the cold, the pores are all closed.
Buddhists say that the human body has 84,000 pores, but in fact, this statistic is too small. The real number of pores in humans is in the millions.
What does closed pores have to do with coughing?
This has to talk about the function of the lungs - the lungs are the main propaganda.
As one of the five internal organs, the lungs contain essence qi, which is called lung qi and lung jin in traditional Chinese medicine.
Lung Qi and Lung Jin will continue to spread outward, through the three-focal membrane, all the way to the skin, and then nourish and warm the skin. The lungs are also excreted through the pores to form sweat.
Therefore, the reason why the lungs can dominate the fur and sweat pores is closely related to its propaganda function.
If you accidentally get cold, the cold will close the pores of the whole body.
When the pores are closed, the lung qi cannot be properly disseminated outward, so the lung qi will be silent.
If the lungs are depressed, the qi will accumulate in it, and people will be depressed. In order to disperse the qi from the lungs, people will have the symptom of coughing, and coughing is to expel the stagnant qi from the lungs.
Knowing this truth, it is simple to treat cough again, and the method is to open the pores and promote lung qi. When the pores are opened, the lung qi is re-opened, the lung qi is not stagnant, and people will not cough.
Some people say, what is the recipe for the lungs?
There are many prescriptions, such as the "Tongxuanli Lung Pill" (Chinese patent medicine) that I will talk about today.
Perilla leaves 144 grams, ephedra 96 grams, Qianhu 96 grams, bitter almond 72 grams, bellflower 96 grams, tangerine peel 96 grams, Banxia 72 grams, Poria cocos 96 grams, Scutellaria baicalensis 96 grams, Citrus aurantium 96 grams, licorice 72 grams.
This recipe is a representative prescription for Xuanlung cough, which is very suitable for cough caused by cold and cold in winter.
The two most important herbs in the recipe are ephedra and perilla.
These two flavors are both pungent and warm. Warm can dissipate cold, and Xin is good at divergence. Therefore, they can dissipate the cold in the skin and pores.
Ephedra, in particular, has a great power to diffuse, has a strong sweating function, can go straight to the pores from the lungs, so that the pores of the whole body are re-opened, to achieve the purpose of sweating and discharging cold. Therefore, the ancients said that ephedra is the first medicine for diaphoresis.
The cold on the surface of the skin is relieved, the pores are opened, and the lung qi can be released normally, so in the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", many prescriptions for treating cough and asthma have ephedra ingredients, and many symptoms of cough and asthma can be relieved with ephedra.
Perilla is similar to ephedra, it is also pungent and warm, and it also has the function of divergence, but its strength is not as great as ephedra, so in this recipe, ephedra is the marshal of Xuanlung, and perilla leaves can only be a lieutenant.
In this recipe, there are also bellflower and tangerine peel that can play a role in promoting the lungs.
Specifically, bellflower is also spicy, and it can be dispersed, so bellflower is good at dispersing lung qi, which has the effect of widening the chest and smoothing the air, which can relieve chest tightness and cough. "Materia Medica" says that it: "The work is in the organs of the canopy", and the organs of the canopy here are the lungs.
Tangerine peel is orange peel. Tangerine peel also has a pungent smell, this pungent smell is pungent, and pungent can be dispersed, so tangerine peel can also help the lung qi to be promoted.
The above four flavors of medicine are to promote the lungs, which can promote lung qi.
After the lungs are opened, the lung qi will not be so stagnant, the lung qi will not be depressed, it will not go up, the lung qi will not be reversed, and the cough will be reduced. Therefore, Xuanlung is the root cause.
Of course, if at this time, add a little bitter almond to lower the lung qi, so that the upward reverse lung qi can be lowered, then it is more conducive to coughing.
Bitter almond is bitter, bitter can lower qi, it can enter the lungs, and lower the lung qi. As soon as the lung qi dropped, the cough stopped completely. Therefore, almonds also have a cough suppressant effect, which is to lower the lungs and relieve cough.
In this way, as soon as it is pronounced and lowered, the lung qi will be normal, and the next work is to dissolve phlegm, because cough often has phlegm, and phlegm blocks the airway, which will aggravate the cough.
How to dissolve phlegm? It is Banxia, Poria cocos, licorice and the like, of course, the tangerine peel and bellflower on it also have the effect of dissolving phlegm.
Tangerine peel, Banxia, Poria cocos, licorice, is Erchen soup, Erchen soup is an "ancestral recipe" for phlegm, these medicines are relatively warm and dry, dry can dissolve dampness, less dampness, less phlegm.
In this way, the lung qi is cleared, the phlegm is less, and the cough is basically cured.
Finally, there is also a taste of skullcap, where skullcap cleanses the lungs. Because the lung qi has been stagnant for a long time, it is easy to turn heat, and add a little skullcap to prevent the lung qi from becoming hot.
The above is all the drugs of Tongxuanli Lung Pill, in general, it can not only relieve the cold, promote the lungs and relieve cough, but also dissolve phlegm, so after suffering from wind and cold, cough and phlegm, use it to get better soon.
Of course, this product is not only used to treat colds and coughs, but also to treat the following diseases:
1. Acute rhinitis.
Acute rhinitis often appears with a cold, and after a cold, the nose is very blocked, which is the symptom of acute rhinitis. Since the nose is blocked, then it has to be Xuantong, and Tongxuanli Lung Pill also has a certain nasal effect, so if the nose is blocked very seriously after a cold, you can use it.
2. Chronic rhinitis
Chronic rhinitis lasts for a long time, but the cause of its onset is also related to colds, which are often caused by the sequelae of colds. Therefore, using Tongxuanli Lung Pill for a period of time will disperse the cold air in the nasal cavity, which will also help the nasal passages to be smooth.
3. Measaria.
Urticaria, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, is the wind evil that invades the skin, and the wind is itchy. The ephedra and perilla in it have the function of promoting the lungs and dissolving the surface and diverging the wind and cold, which can disperse the wind evil in the skin, so it can treat urticaria, especially cold urticaria, which is more effective.
The above is the mechanism and treatment of Tongxuanli Lung Pills, after suffering from cold and cold, coughing constantly, and having a blocked nose, it is right to choose it for treatment.