Hello everyone, I am Dr. Shen. Today I will share with you a prescription for Medical Saint Zhang Zhongjing . It can be called the first prescription for "breaking phlegm". It has a novel angle, like a "sharp sword", breaking your old phlegm and stubborn phlegm. Once the phlegm is condensed, the qi of triple burner is unobstructed, making your whole body relaxed.
You don’t have this situation. You always feel phlegm in your throat. You have to vomit many times every day, but you can’t finish it. Sometimes you feel that your throat is blocked and uncomfortable. You always feel nauseous. If you don’t want to eat, your stool is loose and unformed, and it is easy to get stuck in the toilet.
In this case, we all know that there is more phlegm and dampness on the body, and we will use some medicines to relieve phlegm and dampness. However, we feel that the old phlegm in our throat seems to have nailed nails on our bodies, and it is stubborn. What should we do?
In fact, for this stubborn old phlegm, we use the conventional method of resolving phlegm and dampness to eliminate phlegm and dampness, the strength is not enough. Just like a mantis is holding the arm, the arm can't twist the thigh.
Because of this aged phlegm, which stays on our body for a long time, will inevitably affect the operation of our qi. With the use of medicine to remove dampness, it will only briefly clear the phlegm away. The qi mechanism of the triple burner is still not smooth and cannot push the water flow on our body.
The water and dampness will still be blocked there sooner or later, and it will become phlegm congested again, which will become an old phlegm that we can’t finish spitting.
Zhang Zhongjing believes that for this kind of old phlegm, we should start by promoting qi and regulating qi, so that the three burner qi mechanism in our body can be unblocked, like a sharp sword, breaking the old phlegm and keeping the "slice of armor" of Lao phlegm. And then the water will no longer stagnate and will turn into phlegm condensation.
For this way of treatment, Zhang Zhongjing created the prescription of Banxia Houpu Decoction, which mainly focuses on promoting qi and regulating qi, transforming dampness and phlegm as auxiliary, promoting qi and phlegm, reducing qi and dispersing chokes, reducing reverse and dispersing knots.
Panxia Houpu Decoction is used to make Pinellia ternata, Magnolia vera, Poria , ginger and Perilla leaf . Each of these medicines can help promote qi and regulate qi while relieving dampness and phlegm.
The medicinal properties of Pinellia are spicy and warm, and they are good at running around. Therefore, while is drying dampness and resolving phlegm, , it can promote qi and disperse knots.
Magnolia officinalis is originally a category of promoting qi and regulating qi. While promoting qi, it can dry dampness and eliminate phlegm. These two medicines should be mainly used in our middle burner spleen and stomach to unblock the qi mechanism of the middle burner.
ginger is pungent and warm. It enters the lungs of the upper burner and can relieve coldness, make the qi in the upper burner and epidermis of our body more smooth, and can also resolve phlegm and relieve cough.
Perilla leaves can promote qi and stomach, and also enter the spleen and stomach of the middle burner. It has a good effect on the stomach bloating caused by poor qi in the middle burner.
Finally, use Poria cocos, which can strengthen the spleen and remove dampness and . The function of strengthening the spleen can replenish the spleen and make the qi in our whole body run more powerfully. The function of removing dampness can assist the previous medicine for drying dampness and reducing phlegm and dampness and reducing phlegm.
The whole recipe of Banxia Houpu Decoction is different from the conventional prescription for removing dampness and phlegm. It mainly focuses on promoting qi and dispersing knots, breaking down old phlegm and stubborn phlegm, so that the old phlegm will not be left.
So later doctors and doctors often add and subtract some drugs and dosages based on the entire prescription to better adapt to different situations of each person.
For example, if there is more phlegm and dampness, it is prone to nausea and hiccups . You can add tangerine peel, a drug that strengthens the spleen and regulates qi.
If you have hot body, yellow tongue coating, and heavy breathing, you can add Coptis chinensis, a heat-clearing drug.
In short, it is necessary to add or subtract the syndrome differentiation according to the situation of different people. If you do not have the doctor’s syndrome differentiation guidance, don’t take medicine at will.
