Phlegm-Controlling Pill

三因極一病證方論

True white mustard seed; purple Da Ji, peeled; Kansui, wrapped in flour and roasted, equal parts. The above are ground into powder and made into paste pills, the size of wutong seeds. At bedtime, take 5, 7, or up to 10 pills with mild ginger decoction or warm water. For severe phlegm, increase the amount. (San Yin Ji Yi Bing Zheng Fang Lun)

Grind the above drugs into powder, cook paste and make pills the size of wutong seeds, sun-dry. After meals or at bedtime, take 5–7 to 10 pills with mild ginger decoction or boiled water. If phlegm is violent and qi is excess, adding several pills is acceptable (modern usage: grind together into fine powder, make water-bound pills the size of mung beans. Take 1–3 g each dose, swallowed with warm boiled water in the morning).

丸劑

Dispel phlegm and expel fluids.

Phlegm and drool lurking internally, with sudden unbearable pain in the chest and back, hands and feet, neck and nape, waist and hips, involving the internal sinews and bones, with dragging and pulling pain, restlessness in sitting or lying, and shifting location; or headache so severe the head cannot be lifted, lethargy and somnolence, tastelessness in food and drink, thick and sticky phlegm and saliva, often a sawing sound in the throat at night, and heaviness of hands and feet, cold, numbness and impediment of the legs, and obstruction of qi and vessels.