"Cough medicine" is a colloquial term often spoken by ordinary people. The full name should be "phlegm-reducing, cough-relieving and anti-asthmatic medicine", including phlegm-reducing medicine and anti-tussive and anti-asthmatic medicine. All medicines mainly used to eliminate phlegm or eliminate phlegm. Drugs that can relieve or stop coughing and wheezing are called phlegm-reducing drugs.

phlegm-reducing drugs are mainly used for coughs with excessive phlegm, unpleasant expectoration, and phlegm-related diseases such as galls and scrofula. Cough and asthma medicines are mainly used to treat various diseases such as cough and asthma.

Chinese name

Cough medicine

Foreign name

pectoral

Function

Expectant, eliminate phlegm, relieve cough

Common symptoms

Chronic bronchitis, throat Department of inflammation

Classification

Warming cold phlegm medicine, clearing hot phlegm medicine

Overview

Definition: To eliminate phlegm, eliminate phlegm, A type of traditional Chinese medicine whose main function is to stop and relieve cough and asthma is called "phlegm-reducing and cough-relieving medicine". Commonly referred to as: cough medicine.

Function: This type of medicine is generally divided into phlegm-reducing medicine. and antitussive and antiasthmatic drugs. Among the phlegm-reducing drugs, those with pungent and dry properties mostly have the effect of drying dampness and resolving phlegm and warming cold phlegm; those with sweet, bitter and slightly cold properties mostly have the effect of clearing away hot phlegm and moistening dryness. Among the antitussive and antiasthmatic medicines, due to their different properties and flavors, they have the functions of clearing the lungs, lowering the lungs, purging the lungs, clearing the lungs, moistening the lungs, astringing the lungs, relieving coughs and relieving asthma. Drugs that are mainly expectorant or laxative are called phlegm-reducing drugs, and drugs that can alleviate or stop coughing and wheezing are called antitussive and antiasthmatic drugs. Or a general cough with more phlegm will also cause cough. Cough, phlegm and wheezing often coexist and are cause and effect of each other. Phlegm-reducing drugs and antitussive and asthma drugs are often used in combination with each other. Cough and asthma medicines are mainly used to treat various diseases such as cough and asthma, as well as those related to phlegm such as galls and scrofula.

Phlegm has two meanings. One is coughed up phlegm, which is narrowly defined. It is mostly caused by the feeling of external evil, stagnation of lung qi, failure of body fluids to condense, or the condensation of water and dampness due to poor spleen movement, such as Cough caused by chronic bronchitis, throat inflammation or chronic lung disease, etc. First, it refers to various kinds of phlegm remaining in the body. This is a broad sense of phlegm, which includes many phlegm syndromes with certain special diseases. Such as gall tumors. These drugs mainly have the following pharmacological effects.

Classification and indications

According to the different effects of the drugs, drugs for resolving phlegm, relieving cough and relieving asthma can be divided into drugs for warming and resolving cold phlegm. There are three categories of medicines for clearing away hot phlegm and relieving cough and asthma.

1. Medicines for warming and resolving cold phlegm. These medicines have warm and dry properties and are mainly used for wheezing and coughing due to cold phlegm invading the lungs. Cold air in the mouth and nose, or dampness and phlegm invading the lungs, coughing with excessive phlegm, white color and lumps, white and greasy tongue coating, as well as joint pain, phlegm core flow, scrofula, or phlegm blocking and blinding due to phlegm-dampness blocking the meridians. Commonly used medicines for stroke, phlegm disorder, epilepsy and madness caused by clearing the orifice include pinellia, aroid, white aconite, white mustard seed, honey locust, white root, platycodon, inula, etc.

2. Medicine for clearing away heat and phlegm. The medicinal properties are cold and cool, and it is mainly used for coughs and asthma caused by hot phlegm blocking the lungs, thick and yellow phlegm, dry phlegm that invades the lungs, dry cough with less phlegm, and difficulty in expectoration, as well as restlessness caused by phlegm fire, and phlegm that blocks the heart orifices. Stroke, madness, or phlegm fire condensation, galls, scrofula, phlegm core and other syndromes. Commonly used medicines include Pediculus, Trichosanthes trichosanthes, Fritillaria fritillary, Fritillaria chuanensis, Tianzhuhuang, Zhuru, Zhuli, sea pumice, sea clam shells, corrugated seeds, seaweed, kelp, binanxing, yellow Yaozi, Zhenshi, Pangdahai. , pig bile, Luo Han Guo, wood butterfly, winter melon seeds, etc.

3. Cough and asthma medicine. It is mainly used for cough and asthma syndromes caused by various reasons such as lack of lung Xuanjiang and phlegm blocking Qi. Commonly used medicines include almonds, perilla seeds, aristolochia, loquat leaves, mulberry bark, amaranth seeds, adipose tea, sage grass, goldenrod, rhizome, aster, coltsfoot, ginkgo, etc. In addition, some drugs can also be used to treat symptoms such as phlegm-heat, convulsions, swelling due to dampness and heat, intestinal dryness and constipation.