What Is an Herbal Expectorant?

In Chinese medicine, the main function of expectorant or expectorant is commonly used to treat phlegm syndrome, which is called phlegm remedy.

Phlegm Chinese medicine

In Chinese medicine, the main function of expectorant or expectorant is commonly used to treat phlegm syndrome, which is called phlegm remedy.

The sputum is transformed by the body fluid. Body fluid is the body's normal physiological fluid, and sputum is a tangible pathological product. Mostly due to the exogenous wind, cold and damp heat, the internal injury Qiqing diet depression, so that Qi adverse liquid turbidity into a lot of thin sticky juice. Sputum and drink are often called each other, and they are differentiated clinically: those who are sticky and thick are sputum, and those who are clear and thin are drink. Those with yellow sputum are hot syndromes, and those with white sputum are cold syndromes. Those with greasy tongue are mostly wet sputum, and those with red tongue and dry mouth are mostly dry sputum.

Drug Name

Phlegm Chinese medicine

Whether prescription drugs

prescription

Athletes use with caution

Use with caution

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Not included

1. Warming cold (wet) phlegm medicine: hard and dryness-cold phlegm, wet phlegm

Wet sputum and cold phlegm syndromecough and asthma, characterized by a large amount of phlegm and whiteness, and dizziness, numbness, etc .; (1) Pinellia-Xin, Wen. poisonous. Return to the spleen, stomach, and lungs. Dampness and phlegm, anti-reverse vomiting, topical swelling and pain relief. For wet phlegm and cold phlegm syndrome. This product is warm and dry, can dry and dampen phlegm, and has an antitussive effect.

(2) Tiannanxing-bitter, bitter, warm. poisonous. Return to lung, liver and spleen. Dampness and phlegm, expelling wind and stopping spasm, topical swelling and pain relief. For wet phlegm and cold phlegm syndrome. The dryness and phlegm-reducing effect of this product is similar to that of Pinellia tumefaciens.

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1. Chinese patent medicine for warming cold (wet) sputum

(1) Tongxuanli Feiwan-Xie Table Scattering Cold, Xuanfei Cough. For cold cough, fever, chills, nasal congestion, runny nose, headache without sweating, limb soreness, cold, cold, fever, chills, nasal congestion, headache without sweat, pain in limbs.

2. Qinghua fever (dryness) phlegm medicine

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1. Cool nature, sweet taste, can nourish lungs and relieve phlegm and relieve cough. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" cloud: "Zhezhi cough and spit." It is suitable for people who have hot cough and spit yellow pus.

2. Figs can clear heat, reduce phlegm, and regulate qi. It is suitable for those with wind-heat type cough and sputum and chest tightness. "Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine" also describes the local folk methods, cure lung heat cough, hoarseness, use 15 grams of figs, decoction with sugar.

3. It can reduce phlegm and clear heat, especially for those with hot cough and expectoration. You can use 250 grams of fresh ravioli each time, wash and peel, peel it with boiling water, eat it raw, once in the morning and evening, even for 3 to 5 days.

4. Winter melon is cool, and can relieve phlegm and clear heat. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" said: "Winter melon moisturizes the lungs and relieves phlegm and coughs up." Anyone with wind-heat cough or lung-heat cough should use winter melon soup.

5. Pears are cool, sweet and can clear heat and phlegm. The folk often peel the pears, and then pull out the pear core, put 1 to 3 grams of Chuanbei powder, stew in water, 2 times a day, 1 each time. Or choose a late doctor

1, white radish raw pounding juice, apply to the affected area, cure hot, fire.

2, white radish raw pounding juice, adjust vinegar rubbing the affected area, cure heat.

3, white radish raw pounding juice, drink a cup, treat food product and children with edible beans or food area stagnation.

4, white radish pound juice, drink a cup after each meal, cure stomach pain, high blood pressure.

5, 250 grams of white radish raw pounding juice, add 30 grams of sugar, or add one or two drops of ginger juice, take, to treat acute laryngitis, sore throat, hoarseness, bronchitis.

6, white radish, horseshoe raw pounding juice 60 grams each, stew hot clothes, cure heat cough, slightly yellow thick sputum.

7, white radish raw pounding juice, add maltose steamed and eat, to treat whooping cough.

8, white radish raw slices, heat and rub the affected area, rub once a day before going to bed, rub until the affected area skin red, for several days, cure frostbite.

9, white radish boil thick juice, hot wash, cure athlete's foot.

10, 500 grams of white radish, raw pounding juice, 60 grams each time, twice a day, cure food poisoning, gas poisoning.

11, white radish, brown sugar decoction, cure mushroom poisoning.

12, appropriate amount of white radish, decoction on behalf of tea, cure cough, asthma.

13, 60 grams of radish seedlings (or 15 grams of radish radish seedlings), served in a thick sauce, cure acute laryngitis, dumb sore throat, dysentery, and prevent diphtheria.

14. Dry the radish leaves and take them with water-fried thick juice to cure chest and abdomen stuffiness and dysentery.

15, radish leaves smashed to take juice, use water for delivery or add brown sugar water to flush, cure vomiting.

16. White radish slices are dried and used as soup in summer to relieve heat and quench thirst.

17, white radish, green olives each amount, Jianshui instead of tea. Prevents and treats influenza and diphtheria. 18, white radish mashed to take juice, fresh mashed mashed to take a glass of juice, mix thoroughly, twice a day, continuous taking. Cure stomach bleeding.

19. Honey radish juice: 1 large white radish, washed, hollowed out in the center, put 100 grams of honey in it, put it in a bowl, and place it in a pot to drink. It has the functions of clearing heat and moistening the lungs, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, and is suitable for acute and chronic bronchitis, cough, sputum, prolonged cough, blood in sputum, tuberculosis and throat.

20, radish porridge: about 250 grams of fresh radish, washed and cut into small pieces (or mashed into radish juice), put the same amount of rice with 100 grams of rice in the pot and add porridge with water, after cooking, add a little salt to taste Well don't put oil). It has cough and phlegm elimination effects, eliminates food and urinates, relieves thirst, and relieves swelling. It can cure cough, asthma, phlegm, stuffy chest, fullness of food, chronic bronchitis and diabetes in the elderly or frail people.

21. Radish and plum soup, about 250 grams of fresh radish, cut into thin slices; two plums. Add three bowls of water to fry into a bowl and a half, remove the residue and add a little salt to taste and drink. It has wide middle-air qi, stagnation of stasis, lowering qi and fluid, and clearing heat and reducing phlegm. It is suitable for chest tightness, heartburn, bloating, dyspnea, irritability, and qi insufficiency caused by stagnant diet or overeating.

22. Asparagus radish soup: 15-30 grams of asparagus, cut into thin slices, decoction to remove residue, use this water and add an appropriate amount of water (preferably chicken soup), add ham or bacon (cut long slices) 150 After boiling, put 300 grams of sliced radish into the same boil. After cooking, add an appropriate amount of salt, a small amount of scallion, pepper, seasoning. Can be divided into snacks or served with several meals. It has the functions of beauty, cough, elimination of fatigue and physical strength. Long-term consumption can make rough skin delicate and smooth.

23, radish honey cream: washed red and white radish, shredded stalk juice, boiled over low heat and concentrated to a thicker, add 10 grams of alum (first dissolved in water). Add 100g of honey after mixing well, just boil. Take one tablespoon at a time, three times a day, and drink on an empty stomach. Can cure tuberculosis hemoptysis.

24. Candied radish: Wash the fresh radish and cut into diced. After boiling in boiling water, remove the drained water, dry it for half a day, add 150 grams of honey to the pot, boil over low heat, mix well, and eat after meals. It has a wide range of digestion, regulating qi and phlegm. It is suitable for the symptoms of undiminished diet, bloating, stomach vomiting, and vomiting.

[Attached] Radish seeds (Laizizi): Radish seeds are sweet, flat, non-toxic, enter the lungs and spleen, reduce phlegm and eliminate food, set the breath and set asthma, spit wind and phlegm, eliminate swelling, relieve pain, and have difficulty in treating stools The lower abdomen is full, and the qi builds up in stomach pain. However, do not eat in patients with spleen and stomach deficiency or nausea and vomiting; do not eat while taking ginseng, velvet antler and tonic products. Radish seeds and radishes are similar in nature and have basically the same effect.