Chuanbei is helpful for pneumonia because it has the effect of clearing heat, resolving phlegm and moistening the lung. It is more effective for the heat-prone type of pneumonia, such as wind-heat and phlegm-heat lung. For the wind-heat type, you can use Chuanbei, together with mulberry leaves, almonds and forsythia as treatment. For phlegm-heat stagnant lung type, we can use Chuanbei with mulberry bark, gardenia, guajia, scutellaria and so on. However, for cold pneumonia, such as wind-cold attacking the lung and phlegm-damp stagnating in the lung, Chuanbei cannot be used because its heat-clearing effect can aggravate the coldness and worsen the phlegm-dampness.