A few days ago, I saw a young man in his twenties. Because he rode to the mountains, there was a cold wind blowing all the way, and when he got home, he fell ill. Headache, cough, nasal congestion, runny nose, severe cold. Then he went to get injections and take medicine, thinking that he could relieve the cold. A week later, the cold was gone, but the cough was still there. And as soon as I cough up, I can't breathe, which is very uncomfortable. Even if you fall asleep at night, you will be woken up by a sudden cough. I went to the hospital again for treatment, but I was prescribed a lot of medicine and it didn't work.
He was very distressed, so he asked me why? I told him, in order to cure a disease, we must not only focus on the name of the disease, but also find the cause behind it, know its pathogenesis, and solve it from the root, so that we can truly cure the disease. So what's the mechanism of coughing? Of course, it's related to the lungs. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the main qi of the lungs, the division of breathing, it has the function of promoting and suppressing, the propaganda is upward to outward, and the suppression is downward to inward, between a rise and a fall, the whole qi of the lungs will be smooth, otherwise, the lung qi is reversed, it will cause coughing. Therefore, if you want to relieve cough, you need to clear the lungs and let the lungs' function return to normal. So what to do?
Today I would like to share with you a prescription for cough suppression, which comes from the "Medical Understanding" of the famous doctor Cheng Zhongling in the Qing Dynasty, called Zhiyu San, which is composed of nepeta, bellflower, aster, Baibu, Baiqian, tangerine peel, and licorice.
Among them, nepeta relieves the surface and dissipates wind, diaphragm, can bring out the cold evil in the body through sweating, so that the body becomes transparent; aster cough and laxative, reduce lung qi; white front is also lowered, and the qi is also lowered; the hundred parts can moisten the lungs, lower the qi, and suppress cough, these three flavor medicines are matched together, it can be said that it is a good cough in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, whether it is a cold cough, a hot cough, a new cough, a long cough, can be solved; the medicinal properties of bellflower are upward, and the lung qi can be promoted, and aster, hundred, The combination of white and white, one rise and one fall, restore the function of the lungs to promote and suppress, and tangerine peel and licorice can regulate qi and harmonize various medicines.
The whole recipe is matched together to promote the lungs, relieve wind and relieve cough, enhance the function of the lungs to promote and suppress, and straighten out the qi. However, although this recipe is easy to use, it is also necessary to distinguish the combination of syndrome differentiation and subtraction when using it, so that one person has one symptom and one party, and do not blindly use medicine.