Hello, I am a Chinese medicine person, Zhou Guangbai.
The other day, I was having dinner with a former colleague. His old father-in-law, who has a bad trachea, has a perennial cough, coughing up phlegm, thick phlegm, and abnormal chest tightness when coughing, so he has to hit his chest with both hands. So he asked me what was the best way to use this situation.
I said, clear qi and dissolve phlegm pills.
Many people may not have heard of it, but this Qingqi and phlegm pill is really easy to use, and today I will give readers and friends a brief talk.
Qingqi phlegm pills, from the "Medical Prescription Examination", the basic composition is tangerine peel, almond, citrus aurantium, skullcap, melon seed, poria cocos, gall south star, and Banxia.
All these, as pills, can also be made into decoctions.
What can this recipe do? It is to clear away heat and dissolve phlegm, regulate qi and relieve cough, and treat hot phlegm cough. The patient's manifestations are cough, thick yellow sputum, chest and diaphragm tightness, even shortness of breath and vomiting, red tongue, yellow greasy, and slippery pulse.
The king medicine in this is the gallant star. Bile Nanxing is good at clearing heat and removing phlegm. Melon kernels clear heat and dissolve phlegm, and skullcap clears lung heat. This is a subordinate medicine that helps the gall star. Preparation of semi-summer dryness and dampness to dissolve phlegm. Although it is warm in nature, it does not promote heat evil. Why? It's because of the skullcap to counterbalance it. To treat phlegm and fever, it is necessary to regulate qi, and the so-called qi is smooth and phlegm is self-eliminating. Therefore, use almonds to reduce lung qi, use tangerine peel to regulate the middle qi, and use citrus aurantium to break the qi and dissolve phlegm, and carry out the qi in the chest. Poria cocos, spleen and dampness, eliminate the source of phlegm. The addition of ginger can balance the toxicity of Banxia, and enhance the effect of expectorant and reverse reduction.
You see, this is the basic meaning of the Qingqi and Phlegm Removal Pill. Therefore, many patients with pneumonia and bronchitis now have phlegm fever, and this prescription is appropriate.
However, I always feel that we have to use a good recipe and use it widely. For example, this Qi Clearing and Phlegm Removal Pill, we can't focus on the treatment of phlegm fever and cough. In the clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine, there are many diseases, and this prescription is used, which can be said to be interesting and amazing.
I'll tell you something fun.
It is said that there is such a man who loves to drink. I've been drinking it for years. When others advised him to drink less, he didn't listen, he always felt that his body had adapted to it and was fine.
As a result, in the last two weeks, he has had problems.
What's the problem? It's a fever in the stomach. That's right, it's a fever in the stomach. You say it hurts, it doesn't hurt. You say it's swollen, but it's not swollen. It's a fever, a fever that is noticeable. The patient reported that it was like having a coal-burning pot in his stomach, which was so hot that he couldn't bear it at all.
It was early winter. The patient wore little upper clothing, bare his abdomen, rubbed borneol powder, and gulped cold drinks. But despite this, he felt a heat in his stomach, and it didn't work at all.
What can I do? The patient finally decided to go to TCM for treatment.
At immediate diagnosis, the patient's tongue coating is yellow and greasy, the tongue is red, the pulse is stringy and strong, and the body is obese, but the complexion is relatively dull. Although it is said that the stomach feels burning, the body temperature is no different from that of ordinary people.
After learning this, the doctor hung his wrist and prescribed——
Tangerine peel, prepared banxia, almonds, melon shells, citrus aurantium, skullcap, poria cocos, gallant star.
All of them, one dose per day, decoction in water.
After 9 doses of medicine, the patient's gastric fever basically disappeared and did not recur.
This is the basic process of the medical case.
Let's take a brief look at the mystery here.
You see, the patient's complaint is a fever in the stomach. When the person was present, he was yellow and greasy, his tongue was red, and his pulse was strong. At first glance, you can see that it is a sign of phlegm and heat.
In other words, phlegm and heat are contained in the stomach and are the cause of stomach fever in patients.
The same phlegm fever, you see where it is making trouble. Phlegm and heat are contained in the lungs, and phlegm and heat are coughed. If phlegm and heat are contained in the spleen and stomach, it is easy to cause stomach problems, or stomach qi does not drop and cause vomiting, or stomach burning is unbearable.
In other words, the same cause, it will cause symptoms in different locations. But no matter where it is manifested and what kind of symptoms it manifests, it boils down to one thing: the disease is born from phlegm and heat.
Therefore, at that time, the medicine used to clear qi and dissolve phlegm pills.
Readers, you should remember that this Qingqi and phlegm dissolving pill can be said to be the "trump card" prescription of many old Chinese medicine practitioners, and there are too many examples of clinical use of it to treat diseases. From the main treatment of phlegm fever and cough, to the stomach fever mentioned earlier, to the general bad breath and palpitations, it can be said that there are many varieties and ever-changing.
So I hope you can write it down and use it in the future.