Cough

TCM Herbs Associated With Cough

Cough Is Associated With 24 TCM Herbs

Nourish the lungs, stop wheezing - cough with copious sputum. Eliminate dampness, stop discharges - leukorrhea, turbid/frequent urine, deficiency and damp heat patterns. Stabilize the lower burner - urinary frequency, incontinence, spermatorrhea.

Moisten the lungs, clear heat, and stop coughing - cough from dry lungs or lung heat, sore throat. Clear heat and calm the spirit - low fever, insomnia, restlessness, irritability in the aftermath of a febrile disease, palpitations from qi and/or yin deficiency.

Clears heat, transforms phlegm, stops many types of cough (chronic, yin-deficient, difficult to expectorate phlegm, blood streaked sputum); best for cough with stifling sensation in the chest and upper abdomen (constrained qi). Clears heat, dissipates nodules due to heat - sores, swellings, scrofu…

Tonifies the middle warmer, augments the qi - lack of appetite, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, any spleen qi deficiency issues, prolapse of uterus, stomach, rectum. Tonifies the lungs - lung deficiency w/chronic cough, shortness of breath, copious sputum due to spleen qi deficiency. Nourishes fluid…

Nourish and tonify liver and kidney - yin and/or blood deficiency w/sore back and legs, low grade abdominal pain, impotence, nocturnal emission, xiao ke; neutral nature - commonly used for liver and kidney deficiency. Benefits the essence and brightens the eyes - essence and blood are unable to no…

Tonify spleen qi and yin - with poor appetite, fatigue, dry mouth, loss of taste, dry stool, dry red tongue. Moistens the lungs - dry cough, little sputum due to lung qi and yin deficiency. Tonify kidneys, strengthen jing - lower back pain/weakness, lightheadedness. Xiao Ke.

Clears heat, drains fire, especially from the upper warmer - heat patterns with fever, irritability, thirst, cough, thick, yellow sputum, hot sores and swellings. Clears heat, dries dampness - damp-heat in the stomach or intestines, diarrhea, dysentery; damp warm-febrile disease with fever, stifli…

Invigorates blood and dispels stasis - amenorrhea, wind-damp painful obstruction, traumatic injury. Clears heat and resolves dampness - damp heat jaundice, turbid vaginal discharge. Drains heat, transforms phlegm - cough due to lung heat, constipation. Discharges toxins - burns, carbuncles (topi…

Opens up and disseminates lung qi, expels phlegm - cough (wind-heat/cold), benefits the throat (sore, loss of voice). Promotes discharge of pus. Guides other herbs to the upper body.

Redirects qi downward and stops coughing - cough and wheezing from many different etiologies, most often used for different types of cold. Frying in honey enhances moistening function of the lungs - good for dry cough.

Clears the lung, relieves fire toxicity, and improves the throat - fire toxin affecting the throat causing painful, swollen throat, loss of voice, cough due to lung heat. Topically to stop bleeding, particularly in the oral cavity and lips.

Moistens the lungs, stops cough - dry cough, coughing blood. Augments stomach yin, generates fluids - dry tongue and mouth. Clears heat and eliminates irritability due to yin deficiency or a warm-febrile disease in the ying level - particularly when symptoms are worse at night. Moistens the inte…

Moistens the lungs and clears and the voice - cough, sore throat, hoarseness. Comforts the liver and regulates qi - flank and epigastric pain due to constrained qi.

Expels wind-heat (acrid), benefits throat - fever, cough, sore, red, swollen throat. Clears heat (bitter, cold), relieves toxicity, vents rashes - red swellings, carbuncles, mumps, acute febrile rashes, early stages of measles with incomplete expression. Moistens intestines (rich plant oil - slip…

Transforms phlegm, clears lung heat - lung heat patterns with cough. Harmonizes the stomach, clears stomach heat, redirects rebellious stomach qi - nausea, vomiting, hiccups, belching. Often fried in honey to strengthen the lung moistening function, or in ginger juice to increase its ability to s…