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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

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How Is Qing Fei Wan Categorized?

Qing Fei Wan Functional Groupings

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

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Sub Categories Within The Treat Phlegm Category

Clear Heat and Transform Phlegm Dry Dampness and Expel Phlegm Induce Vomiting to Discharge Phlegm Moisten Dryness and Transform Phlegm Transform Phlegm and Dissipate Nodules Transform Phlegm and Extinguish Wind Warm and Transform Cold-Phlegm

There Are 9 Formulas In Our Treat Phlegm Category

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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

Bronchiectasis Bronchitis Cough Pneumonia Sinus Infection Sinusitis Tuberculosis

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Lung Dampness - Phlegm Heat Lung Wind Invasion - Wind Heat Lung Yin Deficiency

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Clinical Formula Combinations and Modifications

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Qing Fei Wan Has 16Ingredients

Mai Men Dong

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

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

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

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.

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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

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

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.

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Sang Bai Pi

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

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

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.

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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.

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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

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Gan Cao

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).

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