Can Fritillaria cirrhosa cure bronchitis?

In clinical practice, Fritillaria cirrhosa is a common Chinese medicine. Generally, people like to add some Fritillaria cirrhosa when stewing rock sugar and snow pears. The purpose of doing so is to moisten the lungs. In fact, Chuanbei can also treat many diseases, so it has a wide range of applications. So, is it useful to use Fritillaria cirrhosa to treat diseases like bronchitis? Let’s learn about the effects and eating methods of Fritillaria cirrhosa.

The main cause of bronchitis is chronic nonspecific inflammation of the bronchi caused by repeated viral and bacterial infections. The most obvious symptoms are coughing, sputum, and wheezing. Many patients often feel particularly uncomfortable and painful because they have too much sputum and cannot cough it out.

Chuanbei powder mainly has the effects of clearing heat and moistening the lungs, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. It has a certain effect on the symptoms of bronchitis. However, it is mainly suitable for people with lung heat and dry cough with little phlegm, which manifests as dry cough, itchy throat, little but sticky phlegm that is not easy to cough up. Therefore, it does not have a good therapeutic effect on bronchitis with excessive sputum. You can drink fresh bamboo juice, which is also effective in relieving cough and removing phlegm.

Since Chuanbei has the effect of treating bronchitis, let us get to know Chuanbei.

Chuanbei can clear away heat, moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. It is used for dry cough due to lung heat, dry cough with little sputum, cough due to yin deficiency, and cough with blood. It is used to treat consumptive cough, spitting of blood, chest depression, pulmonary emphysema, lung abscess, throat congestion, and breast abscess. It is named "Chuanbei" because it is mainly produced in Sichuan. It tastes bitter and sweet, is slightly cold in nature, and enters the heart and lung meridians. The effects of Chuanbei are to moisten the lungs and resolve phlegm, clear away heat and disperse nodules. It is commonly used for lung heat and dry cough, dry cough with little sputum, yin deficiency and fatigue cough, and bloody sputum. It is generally not used alone. Stewing it with rock sugar and pears can moisten the lungs and relieve coughs. The selection of Fritillaria cirrhosa and the method of steaming pears are very particular, and only proper methods can achieve the best therapeutic effect.

From the above, we can see that Fritillaria cirrhosa is helpful in the treatment of bronchitis, so we can appropriately use Fritillaria cirrhosa as a dietary therapy in our daily life.

Here are three medicines that can also treat bronchitis:

1. Acetylcysteine ​​effervescent tablets: used to treat chronic respiratory infections such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, etc. that secrete large amounts of thick sputum.

2. Bailing Capsule: Used for cough, asthma, hemoptysis, back pain caused by deficiency of both lung and kidney, and as an auxiliary treatment for chronic bronchitis.

3. Eucalyptus, lemon and pinene enteric-coated soft capsules: suitable for respiratory diseases such as acute and chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, bronchiectasis, lung abscess, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, fungal lung infection, tuberculosis and silicosis.