Poria, Licorice, Schisandra, Dried Ginger, and Asarum Decoction

金匱要略

-- When the rushing qi has already decreased, but coughing instead becomes worse and there is chest fullness, use Gui Ling Wu Wei Gan Cao Tang with Cinnamon twig removed, adding dried ginger and Asarum, to treat the cough and fullness.

Poria 4 liang, Licorice 3 liang, Dried ginger 3 liang, Asarum 3 liang, Schisandra half sheng.

For the five ingredients above, use eight sheng of water, boil down to three sheng, remove the dregs, take half a sheng warm, three times a day. (Modern usage: boil nine bowls of water down to three bowls; take warm.)

湯劑

Warm the Lung and transform fluids.

Edema of the head, face, and limbs; cough with profuse clear, thin white phlegm; chest tightness and panting; palpitations and dizziness; white greasy tongue coating; deep, stringy, slippery pulse, with a weak Chi pulse.

This formula is contraindicated for those with Lung dryness with heat, yin deficiency cough, or blood-streaked phlegm.