Fishy-Smell Grass, Honeysuckle, and Pork Lung Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Clears heat and cools the blood. Suitable for hemorrhoids accompanied by swelling and pain
the decoction is cold in nature; avoid overuse in those with weakened middle yang or chronic debility; the cold, heat-clearing herbs suggest caution in those with spleen-stomach deficiency-cold or loose stools
Commentary
With fresh houttuynia cordata as the sovereign, of cool nature and pungent flavor, entering the Lung, it clears heat, resolves toxicity, expels pus, and promotes diuresis, and this opening sets the main therapeutic direction. The ministerial layer, honeysuckle (nature cold, flavor sweet, channeled into the Lung, Heart, Stomach, clears heat and removes toxins, disperses wind-heat), and almonds (warm in nature and bitter in flavor, with Lung, Large Intestine tropism, descends lung qi and relieves cough and wheezing), lends support that reinforces the sovereign’s main effect. Finished with pork lung, rich in blood-and-flesh essence, nourishing the righteous qi, the formula attains a regulated, neither-excess nor-deficient balance. The combined effect is tailored to the damp-heat with blood stasis pattern.