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What traditional Chinese medicine is Pinellia ternata and what is its use?
Effect of Pinellia ternata: 1. Used for cough with excessive phlegm.

Pinellia ternata is dry and has expectorant function. The expectoration is mainly due to spleen failing to remove dampness and accumulating phlegm. It is an important medicine for treating damp phlegm, and is suitable for phlegm-dampness stagnation, cough and qi inversion. It is often combined with Chenpi and Poria. For cough due to excessive phlegm, it is often combined with Fritillaria. Because of its warm nature, it can also be used to treat cold phlegm, so it should be used equally with white mustard seed and ginger. Because of its good expectorant ability, it can also treat heat phlegm and wind phlegm, and it can be combined with Fructus Trichosanthis and Scutellariae Radix to treat heat phlegm. Wind-induced phlegm should be combined with Rhizoma Arisaematis.

Equivalent use.

2. Used for chest pain, chest obstruction, chest knot and other symptoms.

Pinellia ternata has the functions of pungent dispersing, warming and dredging, resolving phlegm and drying dampness, so it can be used for phlegm resistance and chest fullness, and can be used with Chenpi and Poria. If cold and heat are combined, it can be combined with Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, Coptidis Rhizoma and Zingiberis Rhizoma, and has the effects of relieving bitterness, dispersing stagnation and removing swelling (such as Banxia Xiexin Decoction). In addition, it is often used for chest pain, and it is used with Gualou and Bulbus Allii Macrostemi. For thoracic obstruction, it can be used equally with Fructus Trichosanthis and Rhizoma Coptidis.

3. It is used for diseases such as carbuncle, sore, swelling and pain, plum blossom gas, etc.

Pinellia ternata can also resolve phlegm and dissipate stagnation, and can be used to treat diseases such as gall, phlegm stagnation, swelling and pain due to phlegm-dampness accumulation, or plum pit gas due to phlegm-qi interaction. It can be used to treat gall and phlegm, and can be combined with seaweed, Radix Astragali and Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae. Those who are not ulcerated by gangrene can be treated with raw Pinellia ternata and raw Nanxing, and mixed with vinegar for external application, which has the effect of dispersing stagnation and reducing swelling. It is used to treat plum nuclear qi, and can be combined with Magnolia officinalis and Perilla frutescens.

4. It can be used for stomach qi ascending, nausea and vomiting.

Pinellia ternata has a good effect of reducing adverse flow and stopping vomiting, and can be used for a variety of vomiting symptoms. Different compatibility should be given according to different symptoms when using it. For treating vomiting due to stomach cold, it can be combined with ginger, agastaches and cloves. Coptidis Rhizoma and bamboo shavings can be used to treat vomiting caused by stomach heat. For vomiting during pregnancy, it can be combined with kitchen soil and other products; For vomiting due to stomach deficiency, it can be combined with ginseng and white honey.

In addition, it can be used together with glutinous rice to treat stomach disharmony and restlessness, and with sulfur to treat kidney-yang deficiency and stool disorder. The efficacy of Schisandra chinensis:

Astringing lung, nourishing kidney, promoting fluid production, arresting sweating and astringing essence.

Treat lung deficiency, asthma and cough, dry mouth and thirst, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, fatigue and emaciation, wet dream's spermatorrhea, chronic diarrhea and dysentery.

(1) astringing lung and relieving cough: it is used for cough and asthma due to deficiency of both lung and kidney, and is often combined with kidney tonics.

(2) Sewing semen to stop diarrhea: used for nocturnal emission and chronic diarrhea.

Treating nocturnal emission is often combined with ootheca mantidis and calcined keel; For chronic diarrhea, it is often combined with nutmeg and Euryale ferox.

(3) Promoting fluid production and astringing sweat: used for thirst and night sweats in the mouth with insufficient vaginal fluid, often accompanied by Ophiopogon japonicus and raw oysters.

(4) All shock and collapse caused by qi and blood dissipation can be combined with tonics.

① "Ben Jing": the main qi, cough against the upper qi, strain injury, deficiency, strong yin.