[Single flavor function] melon peel, also known as melon peel, is the peel of the cucurbitaceae plant or bilateral bracket. Sweet in taste and cold in nature. into the lungs, stomach, and large intestine meridians. Gong specializes in clearing the lungs and dissolving phlegm, regulating qi in the widening of the body, opening the phlegm and heat of the appetite between the chest, treating phlegm and fever cough, sore throat, chest pain, vomiting blood, hemorrhage, thirst, constipation, carbuncle swelling and poison.
Smallpox pollen, also known as melon root, is the dried root of the perennial herbaceous vine of the Cucurbitaceae family. Its taste is sweet, bitter, sour, cool and moist. into the lungs and stomach meridians. It can quench thirst, clear the lungs and moisten dryness, dissolve dry phlegm in the chest, calm the lungs and relieve cough, treat pulmonary heat and dry cough, fever thirst, thirst, yellow dice and other symptoms;
[Wu use function] melon peel clears the lungs and dissolves phlegm, widens the middle and relieves qi, smallpox pollen clears heat and dissolves phlegm, nourishes the stomach and nourishes the stomach, detoxifies and reduces swelling. The two drugs are used together, and the medicinal effect is doubled, and it is very effective in clearing heat and phlegm, moistening and dryness, opening the chest and dispersing knots, moistening the lungs and relieving cough.
[Indications]1, the blood of warm fever has heat, low fever does not go away, insufficient fluid, dry mouth, red and painful eyes, residual heat has not disappeared;2, dry cough, dry cough with little phlegm, chest tightness and qi reversal, long-term non-healing.
[Usual amount] 6-10 grams of melon peel. 10-30 grams of smallpox pollen.
[Experience] when prescribing the old people's clinical certificate, most of them are written with melon peel and melon root, which is very effective in treating dry cough. If it is used in combination with Nansha ginseng, its effect is even better.
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