🌿 Folk Prescriptions

TCM Formula (I)
【Diagnosis】Deficiency of lung and kidney yin, deficient fire disturbing upward.
【Treatment】Nourish lung and kidney, remove dampness and resolve phlegm.
【Formula Name】Chronic Pharyngitis Decoction.
【Composition】20 grams of prepared rehmannia, 10 grams of angelica, 12 grams of pinellia, 15 grams of poria, 15 grams of platycodon, 10 grams of great burdock seed, 10 grams of tangerine peel, 12 grams of soapberry spine, 15 grams of taraxacum, 10 grams of licorice.
【Usage】Decoct and take orally, one dose daily, three times per day.
【Source】Journal of Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medicine.
TCM Formula (II)
【Diagnosis】Emotional distress leading to stagnation of qi and phlegm obstructing the throat.
【Treatment】Regulate qi and resolve phlegm.
【Formula Name】Modified Er Si Heji.
【Composition】9 grams of pinellia, 12 grams of tangerine peel, 6 grams of poria, 6 grams of licorice, 12 grams of magnolia bark, 12 grams of perilla stem, 9 grams of raw rehmannia, 12 grams of scrophularia, 12 grams of adenosma, 9 grams of pinellia, 12 grams of calamus, 6 grams of platycodon, 9 grams of silkworm pupa.
【Usage】Decoct and take orally, one dose daily, twice per day.
【Source】Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Shijiazhuang.
TCM Formula (III)
【Diagnosis】Deficiency of lung and kidney yin, throat losing moistening.
【Treatment】Nourish lung and kidney.
【Formula Name】Throat Moistening Dew Decoction.
【Composition】Each 12 grams of wintergreen and lilyturf, each 9 grams of rehmannia and peony, 6 grams of salvia, 6 grams of coptis, 9 grams of dendrobium, 9 grams of loquat leaf, 6 grams of licorice, 6 grams of swan flower.
【Usage】Decoct and take orally, one dose daily, twice per day.
【Source】Qi Qiang’s formula.
TCM Formula (IV)
【Diagnosis】Deficient fire rising.
【Treatment】Nourish yin, cool blood, clear heat, relieve sore throat.
【Formula Name】Newly Added Dew Decoction.
【Composition】20 grams of ophiopogon, 15 grams of raw rehmannia, 15 grams of scrophularia, 15 grams of astragalus root, 10 grams of coptis, 10 grams of loquat leaf, 10 grams of dendrobium, 10 grams of belamcanda.
【Usage】Decoct and take orally, one dose daily, twice per day.
【Source】Lu Han Yue’s formula.
TCM Formula (V)
【Diagnosis】Deficiency of lung and kidney yin.
【Treatment】Nourish yin, clear heat, relieve sore throat.
【Formula Name】Sore Throat Decoction.
【Composition】12 grams of scrophularia, 10 grams of ophiopogon, 10 grams of moutan, 10 grams of peony, 5 grams of platycodon, 5 grams of belamcanda, 3 grams of raw licorice, 5 grams of swan flower, 10 grams of trichosanthes peel, 5 grams of cicada slough.
【Usage】Decoct and take orally, one dose daily, twice per day.
【Source】Huang Huang’s formula.
TCM Formula (VI)
【Diagnosis】Phlegm-dampness accumulation, blood stasis and qi stagnation.
【Treatment】Dry dampness, resolve phlegm, activate blood circulation, remove stasis, reduce swelling and relieve pain.
【Formula Name】Kujiu Tang.
【Composition】500 grams of pinellia (crushed), 2500 ml of vinegar.
【Usage】Soak vinegar and pinellia together in pot for 24 hours, boil, discard pinellia, add sodium benzoate (0.5% of total liquid volume), filter, bottle in 100 ml containers. Take 10 ml each time, once or twice daily.
【Source】Cai Fuyang’s formula.
TCM Formula (VII)
【Diagnosis】Pathogenic heat lingering in upper jiao, transforming into dryness and damaging lung yin.
【Treatment】Clear heat and detoxify, relieve sore throat and expel phlegm, sour-sweet to generate yin.
【Formula Name】Er Gen Er Bai Xuan Mei Ju Gan Tang.
【Composition】9–12 grams of sophora root, 15–30 grams of isatis root, 15–30 grams of scrophularia, 10 grams of unripe plum, 10 grams of platycodon, 10 grams of raw licorice, 9–12 grams of white aster, 9–12 grams of white lotus root.
【Usage】Decoct and take orally, one dose daily, twice per day.
【Source】Sichuan Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
TCM Formula (VIII)
【Diagnosis】Deficiency of lung and kidney yin, yin deficiency with blood heat, complicated by wind pathogen lodging in throat.
【Treatment】Nourish yin, cool blood, dispel wind.
【Formula Name】Yin Nourishing and Throat-Clearing Decoction.
【Composition】9 grams of raw rehmannia, 9 grams of moutan, 9 grams of trichosanthes root, 9 grams of anemarrhena, 12 grams of ophiopogon, 12 grams of ligustrum, 12 grams of polygonatum, 12 grams of dendrobium, 6 grams of cicada slough, 6 grams of mint, 4 leaves of mulberry, 10 flowers of green-leafed osmanthus, 3 grams of licorice.
【Usage】Decoct and take orally, one dose daily, twice per day.
【Source】Li Sichi’s formula.
TCM Formula (IX)
【Diagnosis】Deficiency of lung and kidney yin, throat lacking moisture.
【Treatment】Nourish yin, moisten lungs, clear heat, nourish kidneys.
【Formula Name】Bai Sheng Tang.
【Composition】10 grams of lily, 10 grams of raw rehmannia, 10 grams of prepared rehmannia, 10 grams of mulberry bark, 10 grams of scrophularia, 10 grams of ophiopogon, 6 grams of persimmon frost, 3 grams of pinellia powder (dissolved), 3 grams of licorice, 30 grams of reed rhizome.
【Usage】Decoct and take orally, one dose daily, twice per day.
【Source】Gan Zuwang’s formula