Cough-Stopping Powder

醫學心悟

Ziwan (Aster) steamed, Baibu (Stemona) steamed, Baiqian (Cynanchum stauntonii) steamed, each 2 jin; Gancao (Licorice) fried, 12 liang; 3 qian, mix with boiled water and take after meals and at bedtime. For initial wind-cold, mix with fresh ginger decoction. (Yixue Xinwu)

Grind the above into powder. Take 3 qian (9g) per dose, mixed with boiled water after meals and at bedtime; for initial wind-cold, mix with fresh ginger decoction. (Modern usage: grind together into powder; take 6-9g per dose, taken with warm boiled water or ginger decoction. It may also be made as a Decoction and decocted in water; the dosage is appropriately reduced according to the original formula proportions.)

湯劑

Diffuse and regulate lung qi, disperse wind and stop cough.

Cough, itchy throat, white phlegm, or slight fever and aversion to cold, thin white tongue coating.

Cough with profuse phlegm: add ginger-processed Pinellia and Poria. -- Difficult expectoration: add Belamcanda rhizome and Arctium fruit. -- Damp-heat cough: add Peucedanum root and white cardamom. -- Aversion to cold and headache: add Angelica dahurica root and Asarum. -- More severe exterior wind-cold pattern: add Saposhnikovia root, Perilla leaf, and fresh ginger. -- Interior heat with thirst, vexation, and red urine: add Gardenia fruit, Scutellaria root, and Trichosanthes root. -- Wind-heat cough: add Mulberry leaf, Chrysanthemum flower, mint, Arctium fruit, and Arundo donax root. -- Severe heat: add Scutellaria root, Trichosanthes root, Arundo donax root, and Gardenia fruit. -- Phlegm-damp obstructing the middle: add ginger-processed Pinellia, Poria, Perilla seed, and Winter melon seed. -- Cough caused by dry qi attacking the Lung: add Trichosanthes fruit, Sichuan fritillary, Anemarrhena rhizome, Platycladus seed, Trichosanthes root, and Glehnia root. -- Chronic bronchitis: add ginger-processed Pinellia, Poria, apricot seed, and Perilla seed. -- Pulmonary tuberculosis with cough and profuse phlegm: add Mulberry root bark, Lycium root bark, Glehnia root, and Coptis rhizome.

It is contraindicated for those with yin deficiency consumptive cough or lung heat cough, etc., without exterior pathogen. For those with severe exterior pathogen, this formula is also unsuitable.