People can go three days without eating, and their lives are not in danger, but people can't go without breathing for three minutes, which fully reflects the importance of the lungs to the human body. However, the lungs of the human body, in order to allow us to breathe well, in order to shelter other viscera from the wind and rain, often silently bear the damage of external evil to the lungs, due to lung diseases, often can be manifested through poor breathing and coughing, therefore, when the human body has unfavorable breathing and coughing, we should take some protective measures for our lungs. If you don't pay attention, you will develop a lot of lung diseases, such as cough, whooping cough, sore throat, hoarseness, pneumonia, tuberculosis, lung cancer, silicosis, ...... As everyone knows, the most defensive kung fu in the world is the "golden bell jar", so can we add a "golden bell jar" to the lungs of the human body?
As early as the era of the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing, many classic prescriptions for cough and lung protection have been created, such as ephedra soup, Daqinglong soup, Xiaoqinglong soup, and ephedra soup. In later generations, doctors also appeared a variety of prescriptions for the protection of the lungs, such as tonifying the lungs, diarrhea lungs, nourishing the lungs, and saving the lungs...... However, what many people don't know is that there is a wonderful remedy, which can have a conditioning effect on a variety of lung problems such as lung injury, pneumonia, lung cancer, tuberculosis, pulmonary fibrosis, etc.
It is from the Ming Dynasty medical scientist Zhou Zhigan's "Shen Zhai Testament" in the lily solid gold soup, just by virtue of this name, we know that its strength is good, can make the lungs "solid like gold soup", and in fact, the whole formula takes lily to moisten the lungs as the core, combined with group medicine to protect the lungs, so that the yin blood is gradually filled, the deficiency fire is self-clearing, and the phlegm cough is stopped, so that the problem of the lungs has been effectively alleviated. From the perspective of the core pathogenesis, Lily Gujin Tang is mainly used for lung diseases caused by lung and kidney yin deficiency and deficiency fire inflammation, mainly playing the role of nourishing the lungs and kidneys, relieving cough and reducing phlegm.
The protection of the lungs of Lily Gujin Tang can be said to be multifaceted. Lily Gujin decoction has the pharmacological effects of antitussive, expectorant and sedative, and its main effects are to nourish yin and moisten dryness, reduce deficiency and fire, remove residual heat, and expel phlegm. Baihe Gujin decoction can be used for the treatment of whooping cough [2], pulmonary tuberculosis hemoptysis, spontaneous pneumothorax, bronchitis, lung cancer, adverse reactions of radiotherapy and chemotherapy for lung cancer, bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis hemoptysis, chronic pharyngitis [3], chronic cough, chronic bronchitis, variant asthma, ventilator-associated pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, vocal cord nodules, post-infection cough [4] and other diseases. In particular, Baihe Gujin decoction plays an important role in the prevention and treatment of lung cancer complications (hemoptysis, superior vena cava syndrome, radiation pneumonitis, etc.) [5].
According to the "Testament of Shen Zhai", the whole recipe of Lily Gujin Soup is composed of 10 Chinese medicines, such as "three coins each of Rehmannia rehmannia, Rehmannia rehmannia and Angelica sinensis, one penny each of white peony and licorice, eight cents each of Platycodon and Scrophularia radix, and one and a half cents each of Fritillaria, Mai Dong and Lily". From the point of view of drug composition, the drug composition of the whole prescription is actually relatively simple, but in clinical practice, there are still some mysteries that need to be revealed, such as the fritillary mother, whether it is Sichuan fritillary or Zhejiang fritillary, in fact, it needs to be based on whether the symptoms of cough are heavier or the symptoms of phlegm are heavier. In the clinical use of lily solid gold decoction, you can add 100 parts, white front, or add aster and winter flowers as appropriate. If the hot phlegm is yellow and thick, you can add gallant star, whole melon, cough and asthma is worse, you can add almonds and schisandra, if you cough up blood is heavier, you can add white and crane grass. It can be seen that the addition, subtraction and reduction of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions are also quite important, which can be called a unique science.
Why does Lily Gujin Tang have such a wonderful effect? It all lies in its unique compatibility, the whole recipe takes lily, raw and cooked Dihuang as the king's medicine, these three flavors of Chinese medicine is a "pyramid", and lily is the magic Chinese medicine that lives on the spire. What kind of miraculous effect does lily have? Lily has the functions of relieving cough and expectorant, calming the nerves, nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, and nourishing the middle and invigorating qi [6]. It is not difficult to see that the use of lilies, in fact, from the herbal medicine before the Tang Dynasty, there is almost no record that lilies can treat lung diseases. Since the advent of the "Treatise on Medicinal Properties", lily has been officially used as a traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of "cough reversal" diseases. He believes that "the lily is white, and its image lungs can enter the Jin family alone, in order to protect the lungs and calm the mind, clear gold and moisten the dry product", I have to say that lily is such a good lung protection drug, in ancient times was buried for too long time, quite a pity. In addition to the lily, the rehmannia and rehmannia in the Jun medicine, one nourishes yin and lowers fire, cools blood and stops bleeding, and the other nourishes kidney yin, fills essence and replenishes blood, and the three medicines basically build a pattern of "moistening the lungs and nourishing the kidneys, and replenishing gold and water".
Lily Gujin decoction takes wheat Dong and Xuanshen as the subordinate medicine, among which Mai Dong moistens the lungs and nourishes yin, and the compatibility with lily can strengthen the effect of nourishing yin and clearing heat, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, and Xuanshen nourishes yin and reduces fire, and is compatible with raw rehmannia and rehmannia rehmannia, which can strengthen the effect of nourishing yin and benefiting the kidneys, clearing heat and cooling blood. With angelica, white peony, fritillary, bellflower and licorice as adjuvants, angelica can not only "reduce inversion and relieve cough", but also nourish blood and yin with white peony, and the fritillary mother moistens the lungs, dissolves phlegm and relieves cough, and bellflower and licorice relieve pain. With bellflower and licorice as medicine, the two drugs are used at the same time, among which bellflower promotes lung expectorant, carries medicine upward, and can also play the role of Zhouji leading medicine, raw licorice clears heat and pours out fire, moistens the lungs and relieves cough, and can also play the role of harmonizing various medicines. The whole formula plays the role of nourishing the kidneys and protecting the lungs, regulating gold and water, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, nourishing yin, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, promoting the lungs and dissolving phlegm, etc., and is actually the "guardian saint" of lung health.
If you choose from the prescriptions of later generations of doctors, and then dismantle the lily solid gold soup, you will find that it also implies sweet orange soup and liquid increasing soup, among which sweet orange soup can play the role of suppressing cough, removing phlegm, clearing the throat, and increasing liquid soup can play the role of nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness and reducing fire. The whole recipe of raw rehmannia and rehmannia is compatible with the same formula, which is a major feature of the special envoy of the whole party, which makes the whole party take into account the physical weakness while clearing the heat, which can be described as thoughtful. When using Lily Gujin Soup, there are also some precautions that need to be paid attention to, one is that most of the medicines in the prescription belong to sweet and cold moisturizing products, for spleen deficiency, loose stools, and reduced diet, use with caution or avoid use;
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