Sand Ginseng and Pork Lung Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Nourishes yin, moistens dryness, clears the lungs, and resolves phlegm. Suitable for chronic bronchitis caused by dry heat injuring the lungs, characterized by a dry cough without phlegm, or scant, thick phlegm; dryness in the nose and throat; or streaks of blood in the phlegm; a red tongue with little coating; and a fine, rapid pulse.
as the formula is predominantly cold-cool, use with caution in those with spleen-stomach deficiency-cold, loose stools, or aversion to cold with cold limbs
Commentary
The sovereign is northern glehnia, cool in nature and sweet, mildly bitter in flavor, with Lung, Stomach tropism; it nourishes yin, clears the lung, and generates stomach fluid, anchoring the central strategy of the formula. The ministerial layer, polygonatum (with neutral nature and sweet flavor, having Spleen, Lung, Kidney tropism, nourishes yin, tonifies the spleen and moistens the lung and kidney), and pork lung (neutral in nature and sweet in flavor, with Lung tropism, tonifies lung qi and relieves cough), lends support that reinforces the sovereign’s main effect. The combined effect is tailored to the lung dryness pattern.