Lung-heat syndrome includes wind-heat offending the lungs and lung-heat blazing syndrome, the former syndrome can be treated with Yin Qiao San, and the latter syndrome is mostly treated with Qing Qi and phlegm soup.
1. Wind-heat offending the lungs. This syndrome can be seen in fever and headache, dry mouth and cough, sore throat, short and red urine (small amount of urine, dark yellow color). The treatment of this syndrome should be based on dispersing wind and clearing heat to relieve the surface, and Yin Qiao San can be chosen to treat it with additions and subtractions. The composition of Yin Qiao San includes forsythia, honeysuckle, platycodon, bamboo leaves, mint, tempeh, thorns, burdock and so on.
Avoid smoking, alcohol, spicy, cold and greasy food while taking Yin Qiao San. It is not suitable to take tonic Chinese patent medicines at the same time.
2. Pulmonary heat syndrome. This syndrome can be seen in coughing, coughing up phlegm, phlegm yellow and thick. To treat this syndrome, clearing lung heat and resolving phlegm should be the mainstay, and Qingqi Huo Phlegm Tang can be chosen as the main formula for treatment, which consists of Scutellaria baicalensis, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, Psidium Guajuaren, Citrus aurantium, Almonds, Semen Xanthus, and Gallus gallus and so on. This formula is cold, and caution is advised for those with Yang deficiency in the spleen and stomach.
The above medications should be taken in consultation with a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be used on one’s own in order to avoid delaying the condition or producing adverse reactions.