When respiratory diseases have two symptoms: cough and expectoration, we should choose traditional Chinese medicine or Chinese patent medicine to treat them. In traditional Chinese medicine, cough with phlegm is often divided into cold phlegm and hot phlegm, which shows that cough-relieving and phlegm-resolving drugs can be divided into two types: warming cold phlegm drugs and clearing hot phlegm drugs. Commonly used Chinese patent medicines for relieving cough and resolving phlegm in life include loquat leaf cream, kechuan oral liquid, Zhike loquat dew, orange tablets and so on. Let's take a look at it with Xiaobian. Antitussive and expectorant drugs can be divided into several categories.

1, drugs for warming cold phlegm

It is warm and dry in nature, and is mainly used for asthma and cough caused by cold phlegm invading the lung, white and thin in quality, air-cooled in the mouth and nose, or wet phlegm invading the lung, cough with excessive phlegm, white lump in color, and white greasy tongue coating, as well as joint pain, sputum nuclear discharge and scrofula caused by phlegm-dampness blocking meridians, or phlegm confusion and phlegm confusion caused by apoplexy. Commonly used drugs are Pinellia ternata, Rhizoma Arisaematis, Rhizoma Typhonii, Semen Sinapis Albae, Gleditsia sinensis, Rhizoma Cynanchi Stauntonii, Radix Platycodi, Inula, etc.

2, clearing heat phlegm medicine

It is cold and cold in nature, and is mainly used for syndromes such as excessive expectoration and wheezing, thick and yellow sputum, dry phlegm invading the lung, dry cough with little phlegm, uncomfortable expectoration, anxiety caused by phlegm fire, stroke and madness caused by phlegm fascination, or phlegm fire condensation, gall and scrofula. Commonly used drugs are Peucedanum, Fructus Trichosanthis, Bulbus Fritillariae Thunbergii, Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae, Bambusa Bambusae, Caulis Bambusae, Succus Bambusae, Pumice, concha meretricis seu cyclinae, Concha Arctii, Seaweed, Thallus Laminariae, Arisaema cum bile, Dioscorea bulbifera, chlorite, boat-fruited Sterculia, pig bile, Siraitia grosvenorii, Butterfly, and winter melon seeds.

What are the commonly used Chinese patent medicines for relieving cough and resolving phlegm?

1, loquat leaf cream

Brief introduction is a dark brown thick paste; It tastes sweet and slightly astringent.

The main ingredient is loquat leaf.

Efficacy of clearing lung, moistening dryness, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.

Indications: It is suitable for patients with cough, lung yin injury, scanty and sticky phlegm, uncomfortable expectoration, dry cough, dry throat and nose, red tongue with yellow or slightly dry coating and rapid pulse. Experts remind that people with cold cough should not use it.

2. Kechuan Oral Liquid

The ancient prescriptions Maxing Shigan decoction and Baihu decoction are combined with modern classic prescriptions Shuanghuanglian, Houttuynia cordata and Isatis indigotica, which are careful and rigorous.

Main ingredients: Herba Ephedrae, Semen Armeniacae Amarum, Gypsum Fibrosum, Radix Glycyrrhizae, Flos Lonicerae, Scutellariae Radix, Fructus Forsythiae, Radix Isatidis, Herba Houttuyniae, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae and Radix Ophiopogonis.

Efficacy of clearing away heat, relieving cough, relieving asthma and eliminating phlegm. Maxing Shigan decoction can clear away lung heat, relieve cough and asthma, and has strong drug effect. It is combined with Ophiopogon japonicus and Anemarrhena asphodeloides to protect children's lung yin, which will not hurt children's vitality and enhance their disease resistance. Gypsum and Anemarrhena asphodeloides can clear stomach fire and stimulate appetite. They are subtle, unique and comprehensive for children's pathological characteristics.

Indications: cold, bronchitis, asthmatic bronchitis and bronchopneumonia. Clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispersing lung qi and resolving phlegm, and can be used for treating cough, asthma, phlegm, fever and other symptoms caused by pathogenic heat invading lung qi. It is suitable for treating children's colds, lung heat, bronchitis, asthmatic bronchitis, pneumonia and other diseases.

3, cough loquat dew

The main ingredients are loquat leaves, Stemona, Peucedanum, Platycodon grandiflorum, Cortex Mori and menthol.

Efficacy of clearing lung heat, relieving cough and eliminating phlegm.

Indications: dry mouth and thirst, cough with excessive phlegm and bronchitis cough caused by wind-heat invading the lung.

4, orange tablets

The prescription is derived from the addition and subtraction of Qingjin Jianghuo Decoction in Ancient and Modern Medical Guide compiled by Gong in Ming Dynasty.

The main ingredients include exocarpium Citri Grandis, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Rhizoma Pinelliae (processed), Poria, Glycyrrhrizae Radix, Radix Platycodi, Semen Armeniacae Amarum, Fructus Perillae (fried), Radix Asteris, Flos Farfarae, Fructus Trichosanthis, Bulbus Fritillariae Thunbergii, Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Gypsum, etc.

Efficacy: resolving phlegm and relieving cough.

Indications: It is clinically used for cough with phlegm-heat obstructing the lung, with excessive phlegm and difficult expectoration. It is also commonly used for acute and chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, bronchiectasis, pulmonary infection (abscess) and other patients with phlegm-heat blocking the lung.