Pine nuts are sweet and warm in nature, and have the effect of moistening the lungs, stopping coughing, sliding the bowels, and laxative. "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" is recorded: "sea pine nuts, sweet and moist benefit lungs, clearing the heart to stop coughing and moistening the intestines, and cypress kernel, hemp kernel, warming the effect of yin, the heart and lung dry phlegm, dry cough of good medicine."

The treatment of lung dry cough, usually with 30 grams of pine nuts, walnut kernel 60 grams, research paste, and cooked honey 25 grams of collection. 5 grams per serving, served after food, 3 times a day.