What herbs can be used to clear the lungs and nourish the lungs can be used to make tea to drink, according to the patient’s physical condition to determine, at present the commonly used traditional Chinese medicines are wood butterfly, northern salvia, maitake and so on.
1. Wood butterfly: has the effect of clearing the lungs and improving the pharynx, dredging the liver and stomach, and can be used for the treatment of lung-heat cough, mute, laryngeal paralysis (pharyngeal redness, swelling and pain, or dryness, foreign body sensation, or itchy pharyngeal discomfort, swallowing difficulties), liver and stomach qi pain, and so on.
2. Radix Panax Quinquefolii: It has the effect of nourishing yin and clearing the lungs, generating fluids and benefiting the stomach, and can be used for lung-heat and dry cough, coughing with labor and phlegm and blood, deficiency of gastric yin (insufficient yin fluid in the stomach), fluid injury in fever, dry throat and thirst, and so on. Because of its cold nature, lung and stomach cold and wind-cold coughing people should not be used.
3. Ophiopogon: it has the effect of moistening the lung and clearing the heart, nourishing Yin and generating fluids, and can be used for dry lung and dry cough, paralysis of the throat, sore throat, injury to fluids and thirst, internal heat and thirst (internal fever accompanied by symptoms such as overeating, drinking, and urinating), heartburn and insomnia, and intestinal dryness and constipation.
The efficacy of herbal tea is not the same as that of decocted medicines, and the limited amount of ingredients analyzed by the medicines may not achieve the therapeutic purpose. If you need to improve your condition, you need to use the correct medication under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner.