A formula for clearing the lung and eliminating nodules in the treatment of pulmonary nodules

Clearing the lung and eliminating nodules is one of the most common clinical treatments for lung nodules, because the formation of lung nodules mainly includes lung heat and stagnation, clearing the lung means clearing lung heat, including clearing lung solid heat and clearing lung deficiency heat. To clear the actual heat of the lung, drugs such as Morinda citrifolia, Scutellaria baicalensis, gypsum, fishy grass, and gall bladder are used, while to clear the deficiency heat of the lung, drugs that nourish and moisten the lung such as ground bark, lily of the valley, yellow essence, raw earth, dogwood, turtle shell, and turtle board are used. The main treatment of dispersing nodules is for stagnant blood, and worm medicines can be used, such as whole scorpion, centipede, earth turtle worm, leech, ground dragon and other worm medicines, which have the effect of searching, softening and dispersing nodules. The combination of clearing the lung and eliminating nodules can achieve the effects of benefiting the qi and tonifying the lung, clearing heat and phlegm, and softening the hardness and dispersing nodules in pulmonary nodular disease. This method is a universal approach, and the specific prescription will also need to be determined according to the patient’s body type of heat and cold, yin and yang.