Xiaoqinglong Decoction for the Treatment of Asthma

Asthma is a common chronic disease of the respiratory tract, characterized by repeated attacks of cough, sputum, wheezing and other symptoms. The main treatment plan is to use symptomatic treatments such as antitussive, expectorant, and antispasmodic. Generally, we need to get medical treatment in time. When the clinical symptoms are under control, we can also appropriately use some Chinese medicine prescriptions for treatment. For example, Xiaoqinglong Decoction can treat asthma.

The effects and functions of Xiaoqinglong Decoction: It can replenish deficiency, eliminate dampness, relieve cough, resolve phlegm and stop wheezing.

Xiaoqinglong Decoction is used to treat cold symptoms on the surface of the body and water retention in the body. Symptoms include chills and fever, no sweating, wheezing and coughing, coughing with abundant and thin sputum, or coughing and wheezing due to turbid sputum and inability to lie flat, or body pain, edema of the face and limbs, white and slippery tongue coating, and floating pulse.

How to use Xiaoqinglong Decoction - Instructions for use of Xiaoqinglong Decoction: Take the above eight ingredients, add one dou of water, first boil ephedra, reduce to two liters, remove the foam, add other ingredients, boil to three liters, remove the residue, and take one liter while warm. Modern usage: Take in water.

The main symptom of Xiaoqinglong Decoction is that it is an exogenous wind-cold on the surface of the body. The syndrome differentiation and treatment are the same as those of Mahuang Decoction, and the additional symptom is that there is fluid stagnation in the body. The patient has water retention in the body and weak spleen and lungs. Once he encounters dampness, it will stimulate the internal fluid, and the cold water will harm the body. The lungs will fail to descend, so there will be wheezing and coughing. The water will overflow into the skin, so there will be edema and heaviness of the body. If the water stagnates under the heart, it will block the qi circulation, which can cause chest distension; if the water stays in the stomach, the stomach qi will go upward, which can cause nausea.

This prescription is a common prescription for tonifying deficiency, dispelling cold, warming the lungs and transforming phlegm. Ju Rui Ephedra can induce sweating, replenish deficiency, clear the lungs and stop wheezing, clear the lungs and eliminate dampness, and is the leading drug. Cinnamon twig is pungent, sweet and warm. It can not only relax muscles and release qi, help ephedra to replenish deficiency, but also warm yang and transform qi, help ephedra to transform fluid, and serve as an auxiliary medicine. “For patients with phlegm and turbidity, warm medicines should be used to harmonize them”, so roasted ginger is used to warm the yang of the spleen and lungs to transform fluid; pinellia is used to transform dampness, relieve cough and resolve phlegm, eliminate fluid and reduce turbidity; asarum and schisandra are used together to disperse and collect, which can not only increase the power of the lungs, but also avoid mismatching lung qi deficiency, and both have the effects of relieving cough, resolving phlegm and relieving asthma; red peony root is used with cinnamon twig to harmonize the Ying and Wei, and used together with schisandra to avoid excessive dispersion of hemp and cinnamon. The above are adjuvants. Roasted licorice root is used to harmonize various medicines and serves as a guiding medicine.