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Cough-Stopping Powder

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Cough-Stopping Powder
ChiefBai Bu
    • transform phlegm
    • relieve cough
Applicable for either acute or chronic cough.
ChiefZi Wan
    • transform phlegm
    • relieve cough
Applicable for either acute or chronic cough.
DeputyJie Geng
    • diffuses lung qi
These two dispel phlegm and relieve cough.
They are also a common combination for diffusing and descending lung qi.
DeputyBai Qian
    • purifies and descends lung qi
These two dispel phlegm and relieve cough.
They are also a common combination for diffusing and descending lung qi.
AssistantJing Jie
    • dispels residual pathogens on the surface
AssistantChen Pi
    • rectifies qi and dissolves phlegm
Assistant&EnvoyGan Cao
    • transform phlegmharmonizes all medicinals
    • combines with jie geng to soothe the pharynx and relieve cough

Cough-Stopping PowderPrescription Information

Name
Cough-Stopping Powder
Chinese Name

止嗽散

Classification

Exterior-releasing formulas

Combination
Platycodonis Radix (Jie Geng) 2 jin (1kg), Schizonepetae Herba (Jing Jie) 2 jin (1kg), Asteris Radix et Rhizoma (Zi Wan) 2 jin (1kg), Stemonae Radix (Bai Bu) 2 jin (1kg), Cynanchi Stauntonii Rhizoma et Radix (Bai Qian) 2 jin (1kg), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gan Cao chao; dry-fried) 12 liang (375g), Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium (Chen Pi) 1 jin (500g)
Method
Grind all of the medicinals into powder and blend together evenly. Boil 9g for each dose, and take warm after meals and prior to bed time. Mix together with a decoction of sheng jiang for early stage wind-cold contraction. It can also be prepared as a decoction by adjusting the medicinal quantities based on the original ratio.
Action
Diffuses and benefits the lung qi, disperses wind and relieves cough.
Indication
Zhi Sou San is indicated for the pattern of wind pathogens attacking the lung. The symptoms are cough, itchiness in the pharynx, difficulty in coughing up sputum, or mild aversion to wind and fever. The tongue coating is thin and white, and the pulse is superficial and moderate.
Pathogenesis
Zhi Sou San is indicated when an exterior pattern with cough is not relieved after taking exterior-releasing lung-diffusing remedies. When wind-pathogens attack the lung, they fail to diffuse and purify the lung qi. The use of scattering and dissipating medicinals is able to expel the majority of the pathogen. However, in this case, there are residual pathogens that cause cough, itchiness of the pharynx, aversion to wind and fever. The treatment is to rectify the lung and relieve cough by using a small amount of exterior releasing medicinals.
Application
1. Essential pattern differentiation Zhi Sou San is a commonly used formula for cough caused by the failure of the lung to diffuse qi with a concomitant residual exterior pathogen. The clinical pattern is marked by cough, itchy pharynx, minor aversion to wind, fever, thin and white tongue coating 2. Modern applications This formula may be used, when the patient shows signs of a residual exterior pathogen causing failure of the lung to diffuse, in the following biomedically defined disorders: upper respiratory tract infection, bronchitis, and pertussis. 3. Cautions and contraindications This formula is warm and moistening but predominately warm. Therefore, it is inappropriate for consumptive cough caused by yin deficiency consumption or cough due to lung heat.
Additonal formulae
Jin Fei Cao San (Inula Powder, 金沸草散)
Source
《Medical Revelations》Yi Xue Xin Wu《醫學心悟》

Cough-Stopping PowderFormulation composition herbal medicine

Tatarian Aster Root and Rhizome

Tatarian Aster Root and Rhizome

Asteris Radix et Rhizoma
Functions：Moistens lung, downbears qi, transforms phlegm, relieves cough. Apply to cough and panting with excessive phlegm, acute and chronic cough, strained cough and hemoptysis.
Fineleaf Schizonepeta Herb

Fineleaf Schizonepeta Herb

Schizonepetae Herba
Functions：Resolves the exterior, disperses wind, vents rashes, eliminates sore, stops bleeding. Apply to common cold, measles without adequate eruption, hemafecia, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, epistaxis.
Balloonflower Root

Balloonflower Root

Platycodonis Radix
Functions：Diffuses the lung, eliminates phlegm, promotes throat, expels pus, promotes five internal organs, supplements five qi, supplements five taxations, nourishes qi. Apply to cough excessive phlegm, swelling pharyngalgia, pulmonary abscess and pyemesis, chest fullness and hypochondrium pain, diarrhea with pain, mouth and tongue sore, red eye and swelling pain, retention of urine.
Liquorice Root

Liquorice Root

Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma
Functions：Supplements the spleen, boosts qi, clears heat, resolves toxin, dispels phlegm, relieves cough, relaxes tension, relieves pain, harmonizes the nature of other medicinals.
Tangerine Peel

Tangerine Peel

Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium
Functions：Regulates qi, fortifies the spleen, dries dampness and transforms phlegm. Apply to thoracic and abdominal fullness and distention, poor appetite, vomiting and diarrhea, coughing with asthma, excessive phlegm.
Willowleaf Swallowwort Rhizome and Root

Willowleaf Swallowwort Rhizome and Root

Cynanchi Stauntonii Rhizoma et Radix
Functions：Downbears qi, disperses phlegm, relieves cough. Apply to cough, excessive phlegm, pulmonary deficiency. According to warm but not strongly dry, applied to disperse phlegm and downbears qi to relieve cough, whatever cold, heat, external, internal, acute or chronic condition.
Japanese Stemona Root

Japanese Stemona Root

Stemonae Radix
Functions：Moistens the lung, downbears qi, relieve cough, and kills worms. Applied to Lingering cough, coughing due to tuberculosis, whooping cough, externally applied to take care of head lice, body lice, enterobiasis, pruritus vulvae.
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