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Pills for Chronic Phlegm

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Pills for Chronic Phlegm,When fire pathogen rises upward and stagnates in the heart and lung regions, lung qi becomes impure; old phlegm and stagnant phlegm coalesce into a sticky mass, stagnating in the throat, making it difficult to cough up or expel.

Formulas Name : Pills for Chronic Phlegm

Chinese Name : 老痰丸

Drug Formulation

Asparagus Root (core removed) 1 liang, Scutellaria Root (wine-fried) 1 liang, Sea Salt (ground separately) 1 liang, Dried Tangerine Peel (white pith removed) 1 liang, Forsythia Fruit half a liang, Platycodon Root half a liang, Cyperus Rhizome (soaked in light salt water, then fried) half a liang, Indigo Powder (ground separately) 1 qian, Sodium Silicate (ground separately) 2 qian, Trichosanthes Seed (ground separately) 1 liang.

Source

Formula by Wang Jiezhai, cited in Volume 43 of *Yi Tong*.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with refined honey (to which a small amount of ginger juice has been added), and form into pills the size of a longan.

Benefits

When fire pathogen rises upward and stagnates in the heart and lung regions, lung qi becomes impure; old phlegm and stagnant phlegm coalesce into a sticky mass, stagnating in the throat, making it difficult to cough up or expel.

Instructions for Use

Place one pill in the mouth, chew it, and swallow it slowly with clear broth; or, if the pills are the size of mung beans, take 50–60 pills with lightly gingered broth.

Pills for Chronic Phlegm,Formula by Wang Jiezhai, cited in Volume 43 of *Yi Tong*.,When fire pathogen rises upward and stagnates in the heart and lung regions, lung qi becomes impure; old phlegm and stagnant phlegm coalesce into a sticky mass, stagnating in the throat, making it difficult to cough up or expel.

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