Five Fingered Peach is a traditional Chinese medicine with the effects of benefiting qi and strengthening the spleen, expelling phlegm and resolving dampness, and soothing the tendons and activating the collaterals. It helps to alleviate the symptoms of colds such as coughing with phlegm, but has no definite effect on the treatment of colds.
1. The five-fingered hairy peach is the dried root of Ficus vulgaris of the mulberry family. It is commonly used clinically for the treatment of lung deficiency and phlegm asthma, spleen and stomach qi deficiency, diarrhea, rheumatic paralysis, lumbar and leg pain, edema, limb fatigue and weakness, and low food intake and abdominal distension.
2. Colds can be characterized by symptoms such as bad wind or cold (fear of cold), fever, nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing, sore throat, itchy throat, body aches and pains, coughing with phlegm, etc. Colds can be classified into wind-cold, cold and phlegm. Cold and flu can be divided into wind-cold, wind-heat, summer-dampness, yin deficiency, qi deficiency and other types of evidence, should be based on different types of evidence to identify the use of medication, such as wind-cold cold can be used apricot suzan, wind-heat cold can be used yinqiao san and so on.
From the efficacy and application point of view, five-fingered hairy peach soup may be in the relief of cold cough phlegm and other symptoms have a certain effect, but it is recommended that cold and flu in a timely manner to the regular hospital, under the guidance of a professional physician to identify the evidence of the treatment, do not take their own medicine to avoid misunderstanding the condition or cause damage to the organism.