Perilla stalk, also known as perilla stalk, is perilla or the same plant white perilla P. frutescens ( L. ) Britt's stem. The taste is spicy, sweet, and warm. into the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. This product has a strong aroma, and is good at soothing the liver and relieving depression, reducing flatulence, regulating qi and stabilizing the fetus, and relieving pain with blood, and is used for the treatment of liver stagnation, spleen and stomach disharmony, chest and diaphragm tightness, abdominal pain, food stagnation, nausea and vomiting, fetal gas disharmony, fetal restlessness and other symptoms.
Platyc-odon grandi florum ( Jacq. ) A. DC. of the roots. The taste is pungent, bitter, and flat. into the lung meridian. This product is bitter and bitter, but it is bitter but not dry, bitter but not harsh, it can not only open the lungs, relieve fire and dispel cold, to drive away external evils, to benefit the chest and diaphragm, to benefit the throat, and is used to treat colds and coughs, sore throat, hoarseness and other symptoms; It can also promote qi and blood, dispel phlegm and drain pus, and carry medicine upward, which is used to treat chest and diaphragm stuffiness, cough and phlegm, and unpleasant cough, regardless of lung cold and lung heat; It also treats pulmonary carbuncle and chest pain, vomiting pus and blood, and yellow and fishy phlegm.
[Wu use function] perilla stalk is wide in qi, relieves pain in temperature, regulates qi and stabilizes the fetus; Platycodon promotes lung qi, expels phlegm and discharges pus, clears the pharynx, and lifts water. Perilla stalk tends to decline and regulate qi, and bellflower is longer than ascending. The two medicines are used, one on the other, the chest is opened, the swelling is reduced, and the fullness is complementary.
[Indications] all qi is not smooth, resulting in chest tightness, discomfort, qi reversal and other symptoms.
[usual amount] 6-10 grams of perilla stem. Platycodon 6-10 grams.
[Experience] there are people with poor qi and blood stasis, phlegm and dampness obstruction, people who are out of harmony with elevation, and people who are weak in qi and blood. In terms of treatment, those with qi stagnation and blood stasis are used with peach kernels and safflower; phlegm and dampness obstruction, combined with banxia and tangerine peel; Those who are out of harmony with the lifting are used with fried citrus aurantium and fried citrus aurantium; Those who are weak in qi and blood can be combined with astragalus and angelica, and its effect is even better.
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