Chai Qian Lian Mei Decoction for chronic cough

  Ingredients and method of administration: Bupleurum, Aconitum, Utricularia and Rhizoma, each three coins, one pig’s gall, one pig’s spinal cord, five minutes of leek root, and one calorie of child’s stool. Decoct together until seven minutes, remove the dregs and take warm, no time limit.  The formula of “Chai Qian Mei Lian Pill”, “Frost Red Complete Female”, “Chai Hu”, “Qian Hu”, “Huang Lian”, “Wu Mei” (remove the core), each two taels, together as a powder, listen to use. Then use a pig spinal cord, pig bitter gall bladder a, leek white ten each inch, with pounding mud, into the child stool a wine calorie, mixed like a thin paste, add the above medicine powder, and then pounded, make pills such as green beans big. Take 30 to 40 pills per dose in clear soup. If there is a lot of heat insulation, take it after meals. This formula pill male and female bone vapor can be used, not specifically maternal.  Cheng Menxue song: labor wind offending lung cough cold and heat, phlegm green like pellets, Chai Qian even plum Yue Qiushi, leek white bile marrow children stool to save, the main green minus autumn and Yan, change the decoction into a pill method is better.  Cheng Menxue press: this formula (pill formula) is recorded from the “frost red complete female section” to treat labor wind cough, cold and heat, greenish phlegm like pellets, cough even then vomit. It is also said that “coughs come from 18 different sources, all due to evil Qi entering the liver”. But the use of non-expensive, hasty is not easy to do, so the main green change of soup for the pill, the method is very desirable, because the record to spare.  Shanghai Lu Hongyuan: Chai Qian Mei Lian San was first seen in the Yuan Dynasty, Sa Qian Zhai “Rui Zhu Tang experience formula envy tonic door”, is the former sage used to treat deficiency labor in the wind labor and labor wind effective formula. This formula was cited by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty under the article of “The Compendium of Materia Medica”. It is also included in the “Six Perversions” in Shen Jinao’s “Miscellaneous Diseases Source and Flow Rhinocandles”. Wu Hegao’s “Medical Formula” has a formula for Chai Qian Lian Mei Drink, which is used to treat “coughing deception, when it is in full bloom, pink phlegm becomes green and yellow afterwards”. Its formula is: Chai Hu to solve the wind not in the table, Hu Huanglian clear into the muscle attached to the bone of heat, before Hu to the lung and spleen table of evil. Chu Cheng’s day: acid can enter the bone, then the use of plum can also astringent bone vapor. Pig bile so nourish yin, pig marrow so nourish the bone, child stool so help fire. The leek white pungent hot, less used to make the guide, by the day: very from it, this is also called (“medical prescription examination”). According to Cao Renbo, it is a symptom of “retention of evil in the liver and gallbladder” and can be used to treat coughs with rebellious gallbladder fire. The main treatment for wind strain and bone vapor, prolonged but not cured, coughing and vomiting blood, night sweating and spermatorrhea, the pulse to string.  It is also used to disperse wind and dispel heat, eliminate phlegm and lower gas, appease the stomach and relieve vomiting and asthma. The main reason for this is that it is not the same as the other two. All kinds of power, are the effect of the search wind down, liver and gallbladder wind phlegm for patients, without this can not be treated.  (Ben Cao Tong Xuan) Luo Qian Fu said: “strain injury are due to the evil ambush blood depression and get, not only Yin deficiency end. It is not difficult to use the medicine, such as the addition of the flavor of the free class, in order to Chai Hu can release the evil of the depression ear. There are many parties like this, but with the good, this is the first. The first, Chai one ascending and one descending; even, plum one draining and one collecting; Allium, Qiushi one opening and one leading, layer by layer to control its shortcomings, and use its long, its effect is very good, tried and true.  This formula is often used in Cao Renbo’s “Jizhi Tang Medical Case” for the treatment of labor wind: “Coughing and spitting out greenish-yellow phlegm, with a strong and vicious windy sound and scintillation, with cold and heat competing, is called labor wind.” In Cao Renbo’s “Jizhi Tang Medical Case”, there is a typical case of coughing and asthma with Chaiqian Meilian San for the treatment of laborious wind: “Coughing and vomiting of greenish-yellow phlegm, strong collar, bad wind, scorching sound, cold and heat, which is called laborious wind. If the cough is worse after taking Gentiana Macrophylla and Turtle Aegis San, it should be treated in one layer.” Cao’s self-note on this formula is: “The cough comes from 18 different sources, only because the evil energy has entered the liver.” Therefore, his testimony is always based on coughing up yellow-green phlegm, and his pulse, which is only seen in the left side of the gateway, is the evidence.  In the Medical Case of Wang Xugao, a man with a cough and fever for a long time was given six or seven doses of medicine to nourish the spleen and stomach, and his food was increased, and he was slightly healthy after rising, but his fever was strong every time he crossed Yin and Dao, which is the time when Shaoyang is strong. Shaoyang belongs to the gallbladder, and the liver is the surface. The liver and gallbladder have heat, {vast and raw energy, the lung loses its purification, the spleen and stomach loses its transfer, the fire is getting hotter, the yin is getting dried up, the prairie potential, not to dry up more. The pulse is stringy, a sign of heat in the liver and gallbladder. Carved under the beginning of summer, take advantage of its stomach to add a meal, intended to enter the sour and bitter benefit Yin and Yang, to clear the liver and gallbladder of the heat of depression. The archaeology has Chai Qian Mei Lian San, quite meaningful. Chai Hu (stir-fried in pig bile juice), Bai Shao, Ume plum, Radix Codonopsis, roasted licorice, Qiu Shi, Qian Hu, Mai Dong, Chuan Lian, Scallion.  Cheng Menxue (“The Interpretation of the Golden Horoscope”) has an insightful comment on this formula: “Chai Qian Mei Lian San is the only treatment for cough with green phlegm and laborious wind. It is the only remedy for cough with greenish phlegm. It is as effective as a sound when the symptoms match. All these wonderful methods are really the secret of Chinese medicine, but it is a pity that few people know how to use them.” “The treatment of labor wind to open up the voodoo, a acid bitter drainage of heat, but not anxious to nourish yin and generate fluid, voodoo wind phlegm heat is not yet clean. This formula is excellent with, inexpressible. The first one to Chai, before a liter? A descending, plum, even a collection of a drainage, in turn adjuvant leek white pungent to open the knot, child stool Qiushi salty to guide, leek white, Qiushi one open a lead, all sides to carry on. The bitter cold of pig’s gall bladder is used to lower the bile heat, and the salty cold of child’s stool is used to guide the fire downward, so that the spinal cord of the pig enters the bone to search for evil and nourish the essence. The formula layer by layer system, the system of its short and use its long, really not shallow learning can be a few.”