Cough ⁽⁹⁾

Tuanshen Huangqi San originates from Jifeng Puji Fang, a formula collected by the Song-dynasty physician Zhang Rui for treating lung qi deficiency with cough and shortness of breath. The composition is: Renshen (Ginseng) and Huangqi (Astragalus), each in equal amounts; Gancao (Licorice) in half the…

Laryngeal cough (hou yuan xing kesou) is a disease characterized by paroxysms of intolerable throat itching and incessant dry cough; it is a common clinical condition. In the early 1980s, the famous otolaryngology TCM physician Professor Gan Zuwang first proposed this disease name in his…

The Qing-dynasty physician Chen Shiduo's Bianzhen Lu (Records of Pattern Differentiation) contains a formula called Shengjin Qiwei Tang (Fluid-Generating and Atrophy-Rising Decoction). Its composition is: Maimendong (Ophiopogon) 1 liang (30 g), Gancao (Licorice) 2 qian (6 g), Xuanshen (Scrophularia) 1 liang (30 g), Ganjuhua (Chrysanthemum…

Liu Duozhou treated a woman with cough and panting who had to sit upright to breathe and could not lie flat (lying flat made the cough worse). The cough was frequent, with profuse sputum and chest fullness, gurgling sounds in the chest, white greasy tongue…

"Shufeng Zhisou Pill" comes from the *Selected Discussions on Medical Prescriptions of the Guangxu Emperor of Cixi* (Cixi Guangxu Yifang Xuanyi), and was an imperial prescription used in the late-Qing palace to treat cough caused by wind-cold common cold. Its composition is: 15g of perilla…

Recently, mycoplasma outbreaks have occurred in many regions across the country. Many patients, after infection, no longer have a fever following treatment, but their cough lingers and is slow to resolve. The clinical symptoms are dry cough or difficult-to-expectorate phlegm, with cough more noticeable at…

“Renshen Kuanhua Wan” comes from the Taiping Huimin Heji Jufang. It is composed of Kuandonghua (Coltsfoot flower), Renshen (Ginseng), Wuweizi (Schisandra, stir-fried), Ziwan (Aster) and Sangbaipi (Morus root bark), in equal parts. Preparation: grind the herbs into a fine powder, use refined honey as an…

Pleural effusion is a common complication of lung cancer and many other chronic lung diseases. Once fluid accumulates in the pleural cavity, patients often develop cough, profuse sputum, chest tightness, chest pain, and frequent or scanty urination; severe cases may show edema of the legs…

Ms. Yan, a 32-year-old Beijing resident and a relative of a liver cancer patient I treated, had a cough that would not heal. Because her relative had done well under my care, on April 12, 2014, she came to see me together with that liver…