Baihua Wan and Baihua San for Resolving Phlegm and Stopping Cough

Baihua Wan (Hundred-Flower Pill) comes from the Jisheng Fang (Formulas to Aid the Living). It is composed of kuandonghua (coltsfoot flower) and baihe (lily bulb, steamed, then baked and dried), in equal parts. Grind the two herbs into a fine powder, refine with honey into pills the size of a longan fruit. Take one pill each time; after meals and before bedtime, chew it thoroughly and swallow with ginger decoction; holding it in the mouth to dissolve is even better.

This formula has the actions of nourishing yin and moistening the lung, and of stopping cough and resolving phlegm. It is indicated for deficiency-fire stirring upward caused by internal injury from the seven emotions and intemperance in wine and sex, presenting with afternoon tidal fever, cough and rapid panting, blood-streaked sputum, scant fluids and hoarseness.

Baihua San (Hundred-Flower Powder) comes from the Rumen Shiqin (Confucians Serve Their Parents). It is composed of huangbai (phellodendron bark) and sangbaipi (mulberry root bark, honey-fried), in equal parts. Preparation: grind the two herbs into a fine powder. Each time take 3-6 g, add one bowl of water (about 150 ml) and 20 glutinous rice grains, and decoct together until six-tenths of a bowl remain (about 90 ml). Then take 18 g of kuandonghua burned to ash, stir it into the decoction, and take the mixture. Take warm, twice daily. Baihua San has the action of draining fire and clearing the lung, and treats lung-heat cough.