123 - Dry Spring (Qing Zao Jiu Fei Wan)

Category: Acute infestation, hidden pathogen, respiration, Lung system, pain relief

Using a recipe according to traditional Chinese medicine:

-cleanses and relaxes the Lungs

-removes external hot and dry wind

-cools hot and moistens dry Lung

-replenishes and nourishes Yin Lung

Description:

A prescription for viral diseases involving dry cough.

According to TCM, when attacked by the so-called external hot and dry wind of FENG RE ZAO, the Qi Plic and also the Yin Plic are damaged. This invasion blocks the protective YANG energy, which in turn causes an elevated temperature that is not accompanied by shivering and chills. This means that the damaging hot drought ZAO RE has penetrated deeper into the Lungs, which it has blocked, and reversed their energy flow in the opposite direction i.e. upwards (FEI QI NI).

This condition then manifests with symptoms such as headaches, coughing (without mucus or with difficulty coughing up small amounts of mucus), shortness of breath and wheezing in the chest, eventual fullness or tightness in the chest and pain in the lower back.Dryness results in a dry barking irritating cough (as in laryngitis or whooping cough), hoarseness, dry nose, dry to parched throat, dry lips, thirst, itching, nosebleeds, constipation, hiccups, restlessness and irritability.

The mixture, in addition to expelling external dry noxiousness, purifies the Lungs, protects the Yin and gives birth to fluids.

It is especially for dry and hot constitutional types with a tendency to dryness of the Lungs.

Indications:

-acute or chronic dry cough.

-allergic cough, allergic asthma

-sore throat

-fever

Modern Uses:

-flu and viruses with dry cough

-pollen rhinitis and pollen asthma

-acute laryngitis

-whooping cough

-bronchitis

-pneumonia

-bronchiectasis

-cough in lung cancer

Language:

-red

-coating yellow or absent

-red tip of tongue

Pulse:

-floating and fast

Contraindications:

-Cold wind attack, presence of moist heat.

Recommendation:

-Avoid fatty and sugary foods, increase salt and fluid intake.

Recipe ingredients: