Clear Meridian Decoction with Added Licorice, Platycodon, Sweet Almond, and Ophiopogon Decoction

Clear Meridian Decoction with Added Licorice, Platycodon, Sweet Almond, and Ophiopogon Decoction,For summer-heat syndrome in the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian, characterized by a dry cough without phlegm and a clear, high-pitched cough.

Formulas Name : Clear Meridian Decoction with Added Licorice, Platycodon, Sweet Almond, and Ophiopogon Decoction

Chinese Name : 清络饮加甘桔甜杏仁麦冬汤

Drug Formulation

Qingluo Decoction: 1 qian of licorice, 2 qian of platycodon root, 2 qian of sweet almonds, and 3 qian of ophiopogon tuber.

Source

From *Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Vol. 1).

Benefits

For summer-heat syndrome in the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian, characterized by a dry cough without phlegm and a clear, high-pitched cough.

Clear Meridian Decoction with Added Licorice, Platycodon, Sweet Almond, and Ophiopogon Decoction,From *Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Vol. 1).,For summer-heat syndrome in the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian, characterized by a dry cough without phlegm and a clear, high-pitched cough.

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