I always feel that there is a mouthful of thick phlegm blocked in my throat, and I want to vomit but can't spit it out, this feeling is like a plum nucleus stuck in my throat, but no matter how much you check it, you can't find any lesions, so the ancient people called it plum nucleus gas.
That "plum" is the invisible phlegm in the throat.
"The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" says that the throat is the gateway of the lungs, so the throat has phlegm, the source and the lungs are closely related, and the lung qi has the effect of promoting rapid descent. We will have a cough in our throat with phlegm.
There is a famous prescription of the Qing Dynasty, which is particularly suitable for this kind of plum nuclear gas problem.
It is Wu Jutong's Shangjiao Xuanbi soup. It is composed of loquat leaves, shoot dry, tulip, light tempeh, and grass,
Because the lung qi is reversed, it will be wrapped in phlegm and dampness to surge upward, so the first thing we need to do is to reduce the qi and dissolve the phlegm.
Loquat leaves, shoot dry, its taste is bitter, traditional Chinese medicine says, bitterness can be reduced. What he is best at is to go down the upward and backward lung qi and bring down the invisible phlegm that is blocked in his throat.
If the liver qi is not smooth, it will also affect the rapid decline of the lungs. Therefore, people with chronic pharyngitis will be more prone to anxiety.
There is also a taste of tulip used here. It can relieve the liver and regulate qi, and smooth the stagnant qi in the lung meridian.
Light tempeh, good walking, used together with loquat leaves and shooting, one on and one down, can dredge the stagnation in the body and help the tulip play a role.
And for the last taste, he used a medicinal herb called "Tongcao". He is good at dredging the three cokes, especially the Tongli waterway, and excreting the phlegm and dampness from the loquat leaves, shooting dry, etc., in the form of urine, so that the phlegm and dampness have a cathartic channel.
To put it simply, Shangjiao Xuanbi Tang treats chronic pharyngitis from the liver and lungs, but most of the drugs it uses are from the lungs, so if people with long-term liver qi stagnation, they can add traditional Chinese medicine such as Bupleurum and peppermint that have the effect of soothing the liver and relieving depression at the appropriate time to add or subtract the symptoms.