If you need to resolve phlegm and cough, you can follow the doctor’s instructions to choose Chen Pi, Platycodonopsis and other medicines, but the effect of the drug decoction is better than taking water, it is recommended that the need for patients in the doctor’s evidence under the guidance of the treatment.
1. Chenpi is bitter, pungent and warm in nature, belonging to the lung and spleen meridians, with the effect of regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm (expelling dampness and resolving phlegm by drying dampness), and is commonly used in the treatment of epigastric (gastric and abdominal) distension and fullness, dietary reduction, vomiting and diarrhea, and coughing and phlegm, etc. It is not recommended to take it if you have a deficiency of qi. It should be taken with caution for people with Qi deficiency.
2. Platycodon grandiflorum is bitter, pungent, flat in nature, belonging to the lung meridian, with the efficacy of promoting the lung, facilitating the pharynx, expelling phlegm and discharging pus, and is often used in the treatment of cough and phlegm, chest tightness and gasping for breath, sore throat, hoarseness, and spitting and vomiting of lung carbuncle (fever, cough, chest pain, vomiting and vomiting of fishy-smelling, cloudy sputum or pus and blood sputum, etc.). It is not to be taken if there is deficiency of yin and prolonged coughing, rebellious qi and coughing up blood.