Ding Chuan Wan Functional Groupings

• Primary Category: Treat Phlegm
• Subcategory: Clear Heat and Transform Phlegm

Yu Xing Cao

Houttuynia

Usages

• Clears heat and toxins, reduces swellings and abscess - for lung abscess or lung heat cough with thick, yellow-green sputum.
• Relieves toxicity and expels pus for toxic sores (internally and topically).
• Drains damp-heat, promotes urination - diarrhea, lin syndromes.

Sang Bai Pi

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Mulberry Root Bark

Usages

• Drains lung heat - cough, wheezing.
• Promotes urination, reduces edema - lung heat obstructing downward movement of lung qi, preventing water from moving - no sweating, facial and floating edema, fever, thirst, difficult urination.
• Recently for hypertension.

Dong Chong Xia Cao

Chinese Caterpillar Fungus, Cordyceps

Usages

• Strengthen kidney, tonify yang - impotence, sore/weak back.
• Tonify kidney yang, nourish lung yin, transform phlegm, stop cough - chronic cough, wheezing from deficiency, blood-streaked sputum.
• Tonifies yin and yang, safe - can be used long term.

Chen Pi

Tangerine Peel

Usages

• Regulates Qi, improves transportive function of the spleen, relieves diaphragm - epigastric/abdominal distention, fullness, bloating, belching, nausea, vomiting (promotes movement of qi in general; specifically directing it downward - good for different types of nausea/vomiting).
• Important herb for drying dampness and the transformation of phlegm - coughs with stifling sensation in the chest/diaphragm, and copious viscous sputum (qi-level herb).
• Prevents stagnation - prevents cloying of tonifying herbs.
• Ju Hong is the red part of the tangerine peel - it is more drying and aromatic.