Chinese medicine prescription for phlegm-dampness

The "phlegm" in phlegm and dampness does not mean sputum in general medicine. At the same time, phlegm and dampness is also a unique disease name in traditional Chinese medicine. And phlegm and dampness mainly refer to a person's physical symptoms, because a large amount of body fluid is secreted in the human mouth, and phlegm and dampness refers to the retention of these body fluids in the human mouth. Therefore, if you want to treat phlegm and dampness, you can only rely on slow conditioning and treatment. If you want to find relevant Chinese medicine prescriptions for treating phlegm and dampness, what are they?

Mild phlegm and dampness can be eliminated through diet and lifestyle adjustments. But if you have already suffered from phlegm syndrome, you must seek help from medicine.

The basic prescription for treating phlegm evil is Erchen Pills. One of the main medicinal ingredients is tangerine peel, which strengthens the spleen, regulates qi and harmonizes the stomach; the other is pinellia, which relieves adverse reactions and stops vomiting. The older these two medicines are, the better they are. It is a basic prescription for treating phlegm. Tangerine peel should be placed in a cool, dry and ventilated place. When you have a lot of phlegm, you can use tangerine peel instead of tea. Pinellia is somewhat toxic. Ginger can detoxify the toxicity of Pinellia. Erchen Pills is a traditional Chinese medicine that can be bought at pharmacies. It is also supplemented with Poria cocos and licorice. It can be used with warming medicine to treat fever, and it can be used with heat-clearing medicine to treat cold phlegm.

When taking Erchen Pills, you need to use ginger and black plum drink as a medicine inducer. Boil seven slices of ginger and one black plum in water. Ginger is used to detoxify the pinellia and also to relieve phlegm; black plum is used to prevent tangerine peel and pinellia from damaging body fluid. Erchen Pills can be used when the symptoms of cold phlegm or hot phlegm are not obvious. It is relatively universal and safe.

Symptoms of cold phlegm: fear of cold, fever, no sweat, wheezing, cough, excessive sputum, and clear tongue with white slippery coating. You can use Xiaoqinglong Decoction. It is composed of pinellia, cinnamon twig, ephedra, white peony root, dried ginger, asarum, schisandra and licorice. It can manage the water in the body just like Xiao Qinglong manages water. Ephedra has the effect of dispelling exterior pathogens and relieving asthma, as well as being a diuretic and increasing heart rate. The ready-made medicine is called Xiaoqinglong Capsule.

Symptoms of hot phlegm: yellow and thick phlegm, fever, red tongue, yellow and greasy tongue coating, and chest tightness. For hot phlegm, you can use Qingqi Huatan Decoction: tangerine peel, pinellia, poria, licorice, scutellaria, trichosanthes seed, tangerine peel, apricot kernel and arisaema. Scutellaria baicalensis and Trichosanthes kirilowii are for clearing heat and resolving phlegm, Citrus aurantium and Apricot kernel are for clearing lung qi, and Arisaema consanguineum is for clearing heat and resolving phlegm.