Chinese patent medicine for nourishing yin and moistening lungs

Nowadays, more and more people have understood the importance of health preservation. Therefore, many people's bodies are in a sub-healthy state. Many people's lungs feel not so healthy, and there will be some abnormal conditions to a greater or lesser extent. In this case, you should take some Chinese patent medicines that have the effect of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs. These medicinal materials can bring many benefits to your body and relieve some symptoms to a certain extent.

1. Ophiopogon japonicus

Ophiopogon japonicus is sweet, cold and moist in nature. It has the function of nourishing yin, producing body fluid, moistening the lungs and clearing the heart. It is good at nourishing the yin of the lungs and stomach, and clearing the heat of the heart meridian. It is a tonic medicine with both nourishing and clearing effects. The usual dosage is 10~15 grams. It can also be made into pills, powders, or pastes, or brewed into tea for drinking. Traditionally, it is believed that Ophiopogon japonicus is used to nourish yin and moisten the lungs, benefit the stomach and produce body fluids, while Ophiopogon japonicus is used to clear the heart and relieve restlessness.

In clinical practice, Ophiopogon japonicus is often used in combination with ginseng and Schisandra chinensis to enhance the effect of nourishing yin and moistening dryness. It is used to treat symptoms such as itchy throat, cough without sputum, thirst and dry throat, and dry intestines and constipation caused by insufficient lung yin.

2. Fritillaria cirrhosa

Chuanbei has the effects of clearing heat and moistening the lungs, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, dispersing nodules and reducing swelling. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" states that: "Fritillaria is a medicine for relieving depression, lowering qi, and resolving phlegm. It moistens the lungs, eliminates phlegm, and relieves cough and asthma."

It is mostly used to relieve dry cough. Chuanbei tastes sweet, bitter and slightly cold in nature, and is effective in treating yin deficiency and dry cough.

If you have a cough due to lung dryness and yin deficiency, and there is blood in the sputum, you can use 3 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa, add appropriate amount of rock sugar and water, simmer over low heat for 1 hour before drinking. In order to alleviate the bitterness, many people often steam it in pears; or when cooking porridge, take 200 ml of rice soup, add Sichuan Fritillaria and rock sugar and stew it. Chuanbei can also be used to make soup with lean meat, and the daily dosage is usually less than 10 grams.

3. Coltsfoot

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that coltsfoot flowers are pungent and warm in nature, enter the lung meridian, and have the functions of moistening the lungs, lowering qi, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. This product is pungent and moist in nature, warm but not dry. It is a good medicine for moistening the lungs, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, and is suitable for various coughs and asthma. It can be used for coughs caused by external factors, internal injuries, cold coughs, or hot coughs, so it is known as the important medicine for treating coughs. However, it is characterized by being warm but not hot, pungent but not dry, and sweet but not stagnant. Therefore, it is most suitable for coughs caused by long-term lung deficiency and coughs caused by lung cold and excessive phlegm.

Coltsfoot flowers are often used after being roasted with honey, which is called roasted coltsfoot flowers, to enhance their effects in moistening the lungs, relieving cough and relieving asthma. In clinical practice, winterflower is often used in combination with other medicines to enhance the efficacy. For example, winterflower focuses on relieving cough, while aster focuses on removing phlegm. In cough-relieving prescriptions, the two medicines are often used in combination to achieve the effect of removing phlegm and relieving cough. If it is used with ephedra, apricot kernel, and perilla seed, it is called Kuandong Dingchuan Decoction, which is used to treat phlegm, cough, and asthma that occur when exposed to cold, and it has a very good effect.

4. Tremella

Tremella is also called white fungus, snow fungus and tremella, etc. It is known as the "crown of fungi".

's reputation. Traditional Chinese medicine points out that Tremella is mild in nature, sweet in taste, and is a precious nutritional tonic. It is also a tonic that strengthens the body. Tremella has the effects of nourishing the spleen and appetite, replenishing qi and clearing the intestines, as well as nourishing yin and moistening the lungs.

10 grams of Tremella, 10 grams of lily, 1 autumn pear, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Wash the autumn pears, remove the cores, cut into small pieces, add water-soaked white fungus, lily and rock sugar, put them in a bowl and steam for 1 hour, eat the pears and drink the soup. It has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. It is suitable for people with autumn dryness cough, dry cough and little phlegm.

5. Adenophora

Adenophora ginseng tastes sweet and slightly bitter, and is slightly cold in nature. It enters the lung and stomach meridians. It has the functions of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, benefiting the stomach and producing fluid. It is suitable for symptoms such as dry cough with little sputum and dry throat caused by yin deficiency and lung dryness or heat damage to lung yin, and dry mouth and throat, red tongue with little coating, and dry stool caused by heat damage to stomach yin in febrile diseases or yin deficiency and fluid deficiency in long-term illness.

15 grams each of Adenophora Root and Ophiopogon japonicus, 50 grams of rice, and appropriate amount of crystal sugar. Add appropriate amount of water to Adenophora Root and Ophiopogon japonicus and boil until boiling. Remove the residue and take out the juice. Use this juice to cook porridge with rice. When the porridge is almost done, add rock sugar for taste. Take one dose per day. It has the effects of invigorating qi and nourishing yin, moistening the lungs and producing body fluid, and resolving phlegm and relieving cough.

6. Polygonatum odoratum

Polygonatum odoratum is sweet in taste, neutral in nature, and enters the lung and stomach meridians. It has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, relieving restlessness and relieving cough. It is used for symptoms such as damage to yin due to febrile disease, dryness and heat in the lungs and stomach, cough with little sputum, irritability and thirst, fever due to deficiency, easy hunger after eating, frequent urination, cramps and pains due to lack of nourishment to the tendons and veins, yin deficiency of the body, spontaneous sweating due to rheumatism, chills and fever due to fatigue and malaria. "Compendium of Materia Medica" introduces that the medicine is mainly used to treat "wind-heat, spontaneous sweating and burning sensation, fatigue, malaria, chills and fever, spleen and stomach deficiency, frequent urination in men, loss of semen, and all kinds of deficiency."

Modern pharmacological research shows that Polygonatum odoratum can also help lower blood sugar by improving insulin sensitivity, and is particularly suitable for people with diabetes and autumn dryness. The usual dosage is 10-15

grams, decocted in water and drunk as tea, or cooked into porridge with rice.