Cough, which I believe we have all experienced, can be abhorrent. Chinese herbal medicine can be said to have a long history of treating cough and is particularly effective. So, what kinds of cough medicine are there? What are some of these medicines? Any drug that has the function of declaring and lowering lung qi, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, lowering qi and calming asthma is called phlegm-relieving cough and asthma medicine. It is also divided into warming cold phlegm, clearing hot phlegm and relieving cough and asthma. Hanxia belongs to the category of warming cold phlegm medicine. And there is a beautiful legendary story about the name of Panxia. The legendary story of the half summer According to legend, a long time ago, the half summer was named “Bai Xia”: once upon a time, there was a girl named Bai Xia in order to make a living, often in the field to cut grass and pluck vegetables. Once, she dug a plant in the field of underground tubers, try to chew in the mouth, want to take it to fill the hunger. She quickly chewed a piece of ginger to stop vomiting, and the vomiting stopped, and even the cough, which had not been cured for a long time, healed. So, Bai Xia used this medicine and ginger to make soup for the villagers to cure cough disease, and it worked repeatedly. However, this plant tuber is rich in pulp, so it has to be washed several times before it can be used. One day, Bai Xia was cleaning this medicine at the river and slipped into the river and died. The local people named the medicine “Bai Xia” in her honor. Later, people found that Bai Xia was harvested in the summer and autumn, and with the passage of time, the name “Bai Xia” was gradually written as “Han Xia”. Source: The tuber of the plant Panaxia, family Tennantaceae. Origin: It is found in most parts of China. Taste: Pungent, warm, toxic; belongs to the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. Effects: Drying dampness and resolving phlegm, lowering rebelliousness and stopping vomiting, dispersing lumps and knots. Used externally to relieve swelling and pain. Usage and dosage: Decoction, 3-10g. (Generally preferable to be used after concoction, for details, see later 〈Concoction of Semen Hsia〉), appropriate amount for external use. Note for use 1. Anti-australia. 2, its nature is warm and dry, Yin deficiency dry cough, blood evidence, hot phlegm, dry phlegm should be used with caution. The concoction of the half of the summer “Compendium of Materia Medica”: where used, to soup washed ten or so over, so that slippery exhaust. If not, poisonous halberd into the throat. The formula has half of the summer must be used ginger, to control its poison. Therefore, half a summer raw with poisonous, must be concocted to use, and half a summer of more varieties of concoction, the role of focus: 1, raw half a summer: take the original herb, remove impurities, wash, dry, pounded when used. Toxic, more external use, to reduce swelling and pain. 2, clear half a summer: alum soaked or boiled or pickled. Eliminate the side effects of spicy stinging throat, reduce the toxicity, to dry dampness and phlegm. 3, ginger halves: ginger alum boiled or pickled or steamed, or ginger fried. Warming phlegm, lowering rebellion and vomiting is the main. 4, French half of the summer: lime half of the summer. Treatment of cold phlegm, damp phlegm is the main, at the same time has the role of regulating the spleen and stomach. 5, bamboo leach half Xia: half Xia or French half Xia, bamboo leach mixed through the shade dry. Warm dry greatly reduced, suitable for stomach heat vomiting, lung heat phlegm yellow thick sticky, phlegm heat within the closed stroke inarticulate. In summary, half ansia can treat: 1, damp phlegm evidence, cold phlegm evidence for drying damp phlegm, warming cold phlegm of the key medicine, especially good at treating damp phlegm of the viscera. Often used with Chen Pi and Fu Ling. 2, vomiting, subdue and stomach, to stop vomiting. Various causes of vomiting, can be used in combination with the evidence. 3.Puffiness under the heart, knotted chest, plum nucleus gas. It is often used in combination with dry ginger, Huang Lian and Scutellaria. 4, Gall tumor, phlegm nucleus, carbuncle and gangrene, and poisonous snake bite. Used externally to relieve pain and swelling.