Herbs to Clear Lung Fire

Herbal medicines for clearing lung fire include mulberry leaves, gardenia, honeysuckle, scutellaria baicalensis, etc. It is recommended to standardize the use of medicines under the guidance of professional Chinese medicine practitioners. 1. Mulberry leaf: it has the effect of evacuating wind-heat, clearing the liver and improving eyesight (clearing liver fire to promote the recovery of eyesight) and so on. Mainly treats wind-heat cold, the beginning of warm disease, lung-heat cough, dry-heat cough, liver-yang dizziness, eye redness and faintness. 2. gardenia: with diarrhea fire to get rid of annoyance, clear heat and benefit dampness (remove heat and dampness in the body), cool the blood and detoxify the toxin (refers to the treatment of blood-heat and toxin) efficacy. Mainly treats heat disease upset, damp-heat jaundice, blood gonorrhea (appears urine blood and accompanied by pain) astringent pain, blood-heat epistaxis (due to blood-heat caused by vomiting blood, nosebleed), eye redness and swelling pain, fire-poisoning sores and ulcers. 3. Honeysuckle: It has the effects of clearing heat and removing toxins (removing heat and toxins from the body) and evacuating wind-heat. It is used for treating carbuncle and furuncle (sores on the limbs or face, small in shape with deep roots, as hard as nails), wind-heat infection, the first signs of warm diseases, and dysentery caused by heat (dysentery caused by heat poisoning, with blood in the stools). 4. Scutellaria baicalensis: it has the effects of clearing heat and drying dampness (removing heat and drying dampness), diarrhea and detoxification (getting rid of fire and poison in the body), etc. It is also useful in treating dampness and warmth (feeling dampness and heat). It is used for treating dampness-warmth (warmth disease caused by feeling dampness-heat), summer-dampness, chest congestion and vomiting, damp-heat plumpness (stomach distension and discomfort), jaundice and diarrhea, coughing due to lung-heat, high fever and thirst, epistaxis (vomiting of blood and nosebleed due to blood-heat), and restlessness of the fetus. If medication is needed, it should be diagnosed by a doctor and regulated according to the doctor’s prescription.