Chinese medicines that can dissolve phlegm include Er Chen Tang, Expectorant Cough Granules, and Warm Bile Tang.
1. Er Chen Tang: It is made up of half-summer, tangerine red, poria and licorice, which has the effect of regulating qi, resolving phlegm and drying dampness, and can be used for treating cough with excessive phlegm, whitish color, chest tightness and other manifestations of dampness and phlegm, and is forbidden to be used by patients who have blood deficiency or yin deficiency.
2. Expectorant Cough Granules: composed of Radix Codonopsis, Radix et Rhizoma Pinelliae, Coriolus Versicolor and other medicines, it has the efficacy of invigorating the spleen, drying dampness, expelling phlegm and relieving cough, and can be used to treat cough, phlegm, wheezing and other diseases, pregnant women should be cautious in using this medicine.
3. Warm Bile Soup: It is composed of Semixia, Bamboo Root, Citrus Aurantium and other drugs, which has the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving bile, and can be used for treating palpitation, insomnia, easy to be frightened, etc. caused by bile-depleted and phlegm-disturbed (internal disturbance of phlegm, malfunction of bile’s function of dispersal and transpiration and excretion).
Specific drugs should be selected under the guidance of a doctor to ensure the safety of medication.