Names Of Qing Fei Wan

Qing Fei Wan TCM Herbal Formula
- English Name: Clear The Lungs Decoction
- Pinyin Name: Qing Fei Wan
- Alternate Names: Qing Fei Tang, Platycodon and Fritillaria Combination, Lung Clearing Decoction
- Chinese Character: 清肺湯
How Is Qing Fei Wan Categorized?
Qing Fei Wan Functional Groupings
- Primary Category: Treat Phlegm
- Subcategory: Clear Heat and Transform Phlegm
There Are 9 Formulas In Our Treat Phlegm Category
How Is Qing Fei Wan Used Clinically?
Qing Fei Wan Usages and Indications
- Clears heat and phlegm and replenishes lung yin - chronic cough, generally with thicker yellow mucus, sore throat.
- With the right factors aspiration pneumonia, pneumonia, bronchitis, tuberculosis, bronchiectasis.
Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Qing Fei Wan

Qing Fei Wan Related Conditions and Patterns
BronchiectasisBronchitisCoughPneumoniaSinus InfectionSinusitisTuberculosis
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Lung Dampness - Phlegm HeatLung Wind Invasion - Wind HeatLung Yin Deficiency
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Qing Fei Wan Has 16Ingredients
Mai Men Dong
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Ophiopogon Tuber
Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Yin category
Usages
- 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 intestines - constipation.
Jie Geng
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Balloon Flower Rhizome
Appears in the Herbs That Transform Phlegm Cold category
Usages
- 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.
Dang Gui
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Chinese Angelica Root
Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Blood category
Usages
- Tonifies the blood, regulates menses - pallid, ashen complexion, tinnitus, blurred vision, palpitations, irregular menses, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.
- Invigorates/harmonizes the blood, disperses cold - important herb to stop pain due to blood stasis - abdominal pain, trauma, carbuncles due to blood stasis, chronic bi.
- Moistens dry intestines due to blood deficiency.
- Reduces swellings, expels pus, generates flesh - sores.
Fu Ling
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Poria, China Root
Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category
Usages
- Promotes urination, drains dampness, transforms phlegm - urinary difficulty, diarrhea, edema, headache, dizziness, greasy tongue coat.
- Strengthens the spleen, harmonizes the middle jiao - diarrhea, loss of appetite.
- Quiets the heart and calms the spirit - palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness.
This formula has cautions, see details
Tian Men Dong
Asparagus Tuber
Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Yin category
Usages
- Nourish kidney yin, clear lung heat - yin deficiency with heat signs in the upper warmer, dryness of mouth, thick or blood-streaked sputum that is difficult to expectorate.
- Moisten the lungs, nourish kidneys, generate fluids - lung and kidney yin deficiency, especially xiao ke, low grade afternoon fever, constipation.
Huang Qin
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Baical Skullcap Root, Scutellaria
Appears in the Herbs That Clear Heat and Dry Dampness category
Usages
- 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, stifling sensation in the chest, thirst with no desire to drink; damp-heat in the lower jiao - lin syndrome; damp-heat jaundice.
- Clears heat, stops bleeding - vomiting and/or coughing of blood, nosebleed, blood in the stool.
- Clears heat, calms the fetus - restless fetus due to heat.
- Sedates liver yang rising - headache, irritability, red eyes, bitter taste, flushed face.
Da Zao
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Chinese Date, Jujube
Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Qi category
Usages
- Tonifies spleen qi - weakness, shortness of breath, reduced appetite, loose stools.
- Nourishes the blood, calms the spirit - irritability, pale complexion, emotional disturbances, restlessness.
- Useful to harmonize the harsh properties of other herbs.
This formula has cautions, see details
Sang Bai Pi
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Mulberry Root Bark
Appears in the Herbs That Relieve Coughing and Wheezing category
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.
Bei Xie
Dioscorea Root
Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category
Usages
- Separates the pure from the turbid - cloudy urine and leukorrhea, either from damp-heat or deficiency.
- Expels wind damp (cold and hot bi syndromes), relaxes the sinews.
- Damp-heat - skin disorders (eczema, pustular sores).
Chen Pi
Tangerine Peel
Appears in the Herbs That Regulate The Qi category
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.
Xing Ren
Apricot Seed
Appears in the Herbs That Relieve Coughing and Wheezing category
Usages
- Stops cough and calms wheezing due to hot or cold patterns - especially for dry cough.
- Moistens the intestines, unblocks the bowels.
Zhu Ru
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Bamboo Shavings
Appears in the Herbs That Cool and Transform Phlegm Heat category
Usages
- Clears and transforms phlegm-heat - thick sputum, stifling sensation in the chest, coughing up blood.
- Clears heat from the stomach, stops vomiting (good choice for different types including morning sickness), aversion to heat, bad breath, yellow greasy tongue.
- Cools the blood and stops bleeding - to stop nosebleed and vomiting of blood.
Zhi Zi
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Cape Jasmine Fruit, Gardenia
Appears in the Herbs That Drain Fire category
Usages
- Clears heat (Heart and Liver), eliminates irritability - heat patterns with fever, restlessness, insomnia, delirium, stifling sensation in the chest.
- Drains damp heat - lin (urinary dysfunction) syndrome due to damp-heat in the lower warmer, damp-heat and constrained liver and gallbladder causing jaundice, damp-heat in the gall bladder and triple heater channels of the face - eyes, nose, sores in the mouth and face.
- Cools the blood, stops bleeding - nosebleed, blood in vomit, stool, urine; (needs to partially charred).
- Topically for blood stasis due to trauma, reduces swelling.
This formula has cautions, see details
Wu Wei Zi
Schisandra Fruit/Seed
Appears in the Herbs That Stabilize and Bind category
Usages
- Constrain leakage of lung qi, enriches kidney yin - chronic cough and wheezing due to kidney and lung deficiency.
- Tonify the kidneys, bind the essence, stop diarrhea - nocturnal emission, spermatorrhea, leukorrhea, frequent urination, daybreak diarrhea.
- Inhibits sweating, generates fluids - thirst with excess sweat, spontaneous sweating, nightsweats, xiao ke.
- Quiet the spirit, calm the heart - irritability, palpitations, insomnia due to blood deficiency or kidney and heart yin injury.
This formula has cautions, see details
Sheng Jiang
Fresh Ginger Rhizome
Appears in the Herbs That Release The Exterior Wind Cold category
Usages
- Release the exterior, wind-cold, regulate ying and wei qi
- Warms the middle jiao - stomach cold/vomiting
- Alleviates coughing, warms lung
- Reduces toxicity of other herbs
This formula has cautions, see details
Gan Cao
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Licorice Root
Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Qi category
Usages
- Tonifies the spleen and augments qi - spleen deficiency w/shortness of breath, fatigue, loose stools (si jun zi tong).
- Qi and/or blood deficiency w/irregular pluse or palpitations (Zhi Gan Cao Tang).
- Moistens the lungs and stops cough - heat/cold in the lungs (Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang).
- Clears heat and toxic fire (raw) - carbuncles, sores, sore throat due to fire toxin (internally or topically).
- Alleviates pain and stops spasms - abdomen or legs (Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang).
- Often used to harmonize and/or moderate characteristics of other herbs.
- Antidote for toxic substances (internally and topically).
This formula has cautions, see details
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