Kapok has the effect of clearing heat and removing dampness (removing heat and dampness from the body) and detoxifying the body, and is not a regular remedy for cough. If the symptoms of cough, should be treated under the guidance of the doctor’s diagnosis. Kapok is the dried flower of Kapok, family Bombacaceae, sweet, light, cool, with heat and dampness, detoxification effect, mainly used for diarrhea, dysentery, hemorrhoids, hemorrhage, but is not part of the regular clinical treatment of cough medicine. Chinese medicine believes that the cause of cough may be wind-cold offending the lungs, wind-heat offending the lungs (wind-heat evil invading the lungs), dryness offending the lungs, phlegm within, etc. Therefore, if you find a cough, you need to ask the doctor to identify the evidence to judge, standardize the treatment, and do not blindly self-medicate the use of Chinese herbs, so as to avoid delaying the condition.