Dry and itchy throat and cough can be boiled with salvia, maitake, and chuanbeimu. Radix Panax Ginseng has the effect of nourishing yin and clearing heat (nourishing yin fluid and clearing away heat), moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm, and benefiting the stomach and generating fluids (nourishing the stomach by replenishing the fluids in the stomach). It is often used in treating prolonged cough with yin deficiency, consumptive cough with phlegm and blood, dry cough with little phlegm, paralysis of throat with deficiency heat (redness, swelling and pain in pharynx, or dryness, feeling of foreign body, or itchy and discomfort in pharynx, difficulty in swallowing), and thirst due to injury of fluids. Wind-cold cough is prohibited. Ophiopogon, with the efficacy of generating fluids to quench thirst, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. The main treatment for lung dry cough, Yin deficiency consumptive cough, laryngeal paralysis (pharyngeal redness, swelling and pain, or dryness, foreign body sensation, or itchy throat, dysphagia), sore throat, fluid injury thirst, internal heat and thirst (internal fever accompanied by more food, more drinking, more urination, etc.), heartburn, insomnia, intestinal dryness constipation, and so on. Szechuan Bei Mu has the effect of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, moistening the lung and relieving cough, dispersing knots and subduing swelling. It is used for treating cough due to deficiency labor, lung-heat cough, scrofula (mainly refers to neck lymph node tuberculosis), mammary carbuncle, and lung carbuncle. It should not be used with aconite. The effective dosage of Sha Shen, Maitong, and Chuan Bei Mu boiled in water is limited and generally does not achieve a therapeutic effect. If there is any discomfort after drinking sasanqua, maitong, chuanbeimu boiled water, it is recommended to stop using it and consult a doctor in time.