The difference between Qingxuan Cough Granules and Jinzhen Oral Liquid is mainly in the drug composition, efficacy and effects. For example, Qingxuan Cough Suppressing Granules is composed of mulberry leaf, mint, bitter almond, Chinese tangerine root, white peony, and citrus shell, etc. Jinzhen Oral Liquid is composed of goat’s horn, artificial oxalis, gypsum, scullcap, scutellaria baicalensis, flat shellfish, and blue pores.
In addition, in terms of efficacy and action, Qingxuan Cough Suppressing Granules has the efficacy of dispersing wind and clearing heat, and promoting the lungs to stop coughing (stopping coughing by promoting lung qi). It is used for children’s wind-heat cough with cough, sputum, fever or nasal congestion, runny nose, slight aversion to wind-cold, and red or painful throat, etc. It is also used for children’s cough with wind-heat. Spleen deficiency prone to diarrhea should be taken with caution.
Jinzhen Oral Liquid has the efficacy of clearing heat and removing toxins, expelling phlegm and relieving cough. It is used for children’s phlegm-heat lung due to fever, cough, coughing and spitting yellow sputum, coughing and spitting, tongue red, moss yellow and greasy; children’s acute bronchitis see the above symptoms. Occasionally, loose stools are seen after using the drug, which can be recovered after stopping the drug.
If the above medication is needed, it should be used under the guidance of a physician or pharmacist after identification by a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner.