The efficacy of Platycodon grandiflorum is to promote the lungs, expectorate phlegm, expel pus, and benefit the pharynx; it is used to treat coughs with excessive phlegm and sore throat.
Platycodon grandiflorum is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, is Platycodon grandiflorum family Platycodon grandiflorum plants dry root. It is bitter, pungent and flat in nature. Into the lung meridian.
Platycodon grandiflorum is often used to treat wind-cold cough with much sputum and thinning, often combined with Jingwu, Aster, Chenpi, etc.; it is often used to treat wind-heat cough with mulberry leaf and chrysanthemum, etc.; it is often used to treat lung-heat cough with thick and yellow sputum, and unpleasant cough, often combined with Zhebeimu, Scutellariae baicalensis, and loquat leaf.
Adverse effects of Platycodon grandiflorum include nausea and vomiting when taken in excess; caution should be taken when coughing up blood and vomiting due to yin deficiency (deficiency of yin and essence in the body, which leads to hyperactivity of deficiency fire).
Chinese medicine needs to be used under the guidance of a doctor to identify the evidence, not self-medication, so as not to cause adverse consequences.