2, moisturizing lung expectorant: Platycodon grandiflorum
Platycodon grandiflorum, also known as monk's cap, bellflower, terrier grass, etc., for the Platycodonaceae perennial herbs, originating in China, North Korea and Japan. Wild and artificial cultivation are available. Flowering period is July to September, bright blue flowers, shaped like hanging bells, very beautiful, or a commonly used Chinese medicine.
Platycodon grandiflorus can be eaten, March to April each year, pick its young leaves, with boiling water after frying or soup can be, but also brewing, can also be made of pastries, but also pickles. The seeds can be pressed for oil.
Platycodon grandiflorus (its root) is a commonly used expectorant, with the opening of the lung qi, expectorant pus efficacy, can cure colds and coughs, sore throat, carbuncle spitting pus, chest fullness and darting pain and other diseases. Due to its pungent, bitter and diaphoretic properties, Platycodon grandiflorum is good at promoting lung qi, expelling phlegm and draining pus, so it is very suitable for cough and phlegm, sputum and carbuncle diseases. Modern pharmacological analysis, Platycodon grandiflorum promotes tracheal secretion, dilutes phlegm, facilitates phlegm expulsion, and its expectorant effect is similar to that of western medicine ammonium chloride.
Practical formula:
1, carbuncle phlegm: 30 grams of Platycodon grandiflorum, licorice 9 grams, water decoction, for 1 day, divided into 3 times warm service.
2, colds and coughs: 10 grams of Platycodonopsis, 9 grams of thorns, windproof, 6 grams of almonds, water decoction.
3, sore throat: Platycodonopsis, mint, burdock 9 grams each, licorice 6 grams, water decoction.
4, chest fullness coercive pain: Platycodonopsis, Citrus aurantium each 30 grams, hawthorn 9 grams, water decoction.
3, cough expectorant: winter flowers
Winter flowers, also known as winter flowers, is the flower buds of perennial herbaceous plants in the family of Asteraceae winter. Fu Xian has written a "winter fugue preface": "I have been by the birds, climbed in the northern mountains, so mid-winter November, ice Ling Ying Valley, snow by the cliffs, Gu Gu see the winter Weiran, the beginning of Huayan is also" depicts in the ice and snow in the opening of the winter flowers.
The winter is mainly produced in Gansu, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei and Shanxi, etc., of which Gansu Lintai is the best. The flowers are usually dug up in late October to late December when the flowers are not out of the ground, and put in a ventilated dry place to dry. Attention should not be washed, hand touching, sun exposure, freezing, or easy to turn black.
Flora odorata is a traditional Chinese medicine. Its nature is pungent and warm, into the lung meridian, with cough, expectorant, asthma effect, can be used to treat cough and asthma, lung deficiency cough, phlegm with blood, laryngeal paralysis and other conditions. When used to treat cough and asthma or chronic cough, it is often used in conjunction with Asteraceae, which can eliminate phlegm and lower the qi. Because of its warm nature, it is suitable for cold cough. Winterflower cough effect is stronger, but the expectorant power is weaker, with the aster, it enhances the expectorant effect.
Practical prescription:
1, cold cough, bronchitis cough: winter flowers, 15 grams of ripe ground, 30 grams of Foer grass, water decoction.
2, more than a cough, sputum with blood: winter flowers, lily of the valley, etc., *** research finely ground, honey for the pill, such as quail's egg large, each serving 1 pill, morning and evening after meals, chewing, ginger soup to serve.
3, tuberculosis, asthma, lung atrophy: 10 grams of winter flowers, green tea 1 gram, 6 grams of aster, 5 grams of hot licorice, add 1 large bowl of water, boiling decoction for 5 minutes, filtrate the juice, add honey to take. 1 dose daily.
4, mouth and tongue sores: winter flowers, yellow rhizome, etc., *** research fine powder, compress the affected area.