Dry throat with foreign body sensation can be categorized as plum nucleus qi in Chinese medicine, which can be treated with the addition of half-summer and thick-park soup. Half-summer, thick-park soup is a famous prescription of Zhang Zhongjing in the “Essentials of the Golden Chamber”, which is a qi regulator. It is composed of Semixia, Houpu, Su Ye, Ginger and Poria. It has the effects of promoting qi circulation and dispersing lumps (smoothing the body’s qi and dissolving lumps), and lowering rebelliousness and resolving phlegm (correcting retrograde qi and removing phlegm from the body). Semixia Houpu Tang is used to treat prune nucleus qi, which is characterized by obstruction in the pharynx, inability to vomit, swallowing, fullness in the chest and diaphragm, coughing or vomiting, white or slippery tongue coating, and slow or slippery stringy pulse. The whole formula of this product hard to use, Xin to move the gas to disperse the knot, bitter to dry dampness to lower the reversal, so that the depression of gas can be spared, phlegm and saliva can be transformed, the phlegm and gas of the plum nucleus of Qi since the elimination of the depression. The formula contains many pungent, warm, bitter and dry products, which are only suitable for those who have phlegm-qi stagnation (phlegm in the body accompanied by poor qi) without heat. If zygomatic redness (redness of cheeks and zygomatic bones), bitterness in the mouth, red tongue with little moss are the result of qi stagnation and transformation of fire, and yin injury with little fluid, this formula is not suitable for those who have the characteristics of prune nucleus qi, even though they have the characteristics of prune nucleus qi. Chinese medicine treatment should be based on evidence, and should be administered under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner.