How to treat pharyngitis and cough?

The most common symptom of pharyngitis is coughing. So if you want to effectively relieve this symptom, you can use mulberry leaves, chrysanthemums, almonds, and platycodon, soak them in water and drink them, which can have a good effect of dispelling wind, clearing heat and relieving cough.

1. Dispersing wind, clearing heat and relieving cough. Symptoms include red and swollen throat , heavy cough, yellow and sticky sputum, uncomfortable expectoration, headache, thirst, thin yellow tongue coating, and floating pulse. You can choose Sangju Yin with modifications.

Medicinal ingredients include mulberry leaves, chrysanthemums, almonds, platycodon, mint, burdock seeds, cicada shells, isatis roots, reed roots, light bamboo leaves, and raw licorice.

2. The method of clearing heat, moistening dryness and relieving cough includes dry and itchy throat, cough and shortness of breath, small and sticky sputum that is not easy to cough up, dry mouth and nose, thirst and desire to drink, little urine and dry stool, dry skin, red tongue with little fluid, and a stringy and rapid pulse. You can choose to use Adenophora and Ophiopogon Decoction with modifications. The medicinal materials include Adenophora, Ophiopogon, Lilium, Polygonatum, Radix Trichosanthis, Scutellaria, Fritillaria, Trichosanthes peel, Dendrobium, Citrus aurantium, and Arisaema consanguineum.

3. Clearing heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Symptoms include sore throat , cough with lots of phlegm, yellow and sticky, or purulent phlegm, stuffy pain in the chest, irritability, dry mouth and throat, short and red urine, constipation, red tongue, yellow and greasy tongue coating, slippery and rapid pulse, etc. You can choose Qingqi Huatan Pills with modifications, and the medicinal ingredients include Fritillaria, Trichosanthes shell, Lemongrass seed, Scutellaria baicalensis, Tianzhuhuang, Pumice, Houttuynia cordata, Arisaema consanguineum, Perilla seed, loquat leaf, etc.

4. The method of drying dampness, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Symptoms include feeling like there is something stuck in the throat , coughing with a lot of phlegm, the phlegm is white and sticky, chest tightness, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, abdominal distension and loose stools, enlarged tongue, greasy tongue coating, slippery and slow pulse, etc. You can choose to use Wen Dan Tang with modifications, and the medicinal ingredients include tangerine peel, pinellia, atractylodes, magnolia bark, poria, inula flower, white mustard seed, bitter orange peel, Fritillaria, coltsfoot, white scutellaria, and aster.