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Clears Dryness

Warm or perverse Dryness invading the Lungs, often in early autumn or after a fever has scorched the Lung fluids Dry, hacking cough with scant or no sputum that is hard to bring up; coughing may hurt the chest Dry or sore throat, dry nose, and dry lips and mouth with thirst Fever, or chills and fever, with headache, no sweating and a flushed face Full or oppressed feeling in the chest, with pain in the flanks Irritability and restlessness

Moistens the Lungs and augments Lung Qi and Yin

Qi and Yin of the Lungs damaged by Dryness and Heat Shortness of breath, laboured breathing or asthma Hoarse voice and hiccups Dry Phlegm; coughing of blood or nosebleeds in some cases Dry skin and hair, with itching Constipation and reduced urine Wasting (Wei) disorder from Lung Heat that has used up the fluids Tongue dry and red at the tip, with a thin yellow, dry white or absent coat; pulse superficial and possibly rapid, big and weak, or deficient, big and rapid

Modern uses

Cough Dry cough after a viral or other infection Autumn dry-cough syndromes Acute and chronic bronchitis, including acute flares of chronic bronchitis Tracheitis Pneumonia Radiation pneumonitis, alongside conventional care Radiotherapy for breast cancer Certain lung cancer symptoms Pulmonary tuberculosis Bronchiectasis Atelectasis Emphysema COPD Asthma Dyspnoea Pertussis Common cold Influenza Upper respiratory tract infection Hay fever and allergies Sinusitis Atrophic rhinitis Epistaxis Haemoptysis Sore throat, acute or chronic Acute and chronic tonsillitis Chronic pharyngitis Acute and chronic laryngitis Hoarseness and loss of voice Hiccups Atrophy (Wei) syndrome Myasthenia gravis Multiple sclerosis Guillain-Barre syndrome Acute infectious polyneuritis Polyneuritis Peripheral neuropathy Acute myelitis Progressive muscular dystrophy Polymyositis and dermatomyositis Periodic paralysis Hysterical paralysis Facial paralysis After-effects of poliomyelitis Weakness Headache Fever Dry skin Dry hair Alopecia Itching Constipation Oliguria sang ye shi gao mai men dong e jiao hei zhi ma xing ren Pi Pa Ye (Mi Zhi) ren shen gan cao