Because of the different therapeutic effects and treatments, phlegm relieving cough and asthma agents can be divided into 7 categories: drying damp phlegm agents, warming cold phlegm agents, clearing hot phlegm agents, moistening dry phlegm agents, cough relieving agents, phlegm dispersing agents, and phlegm interrupting malaria agents.
Widely used in the treatment of damp phlegm in the lungs, coughing phlegm, white color into lumps, epigastric plump moss greasy; cold phlegm to stop drinking in the lungs, coughing and shortness of breath, spit out sputum thin, mouth and nose cold; hot phlegm congestion of the lungs, asthma and cough, spit out sputum yellow and thick, red tongue with yellow greasy moss; dry phlegm lungs, cough, dry phlegm, sputum is not refreshing, or sputum in the blood, the tongue red and little moss and trauma and internal injuries and other causes caused by all kinds of cough and shortness of breath. Phlegm transformer can also be used to treat phlegm-dampness flowing through the meridians and joints of the formation of yin gangrene, flow, and phlegm-dampness, phlegm-fire condensation formation of scrofula, gall tumors, breast fetish, cancer. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that malaria is caused by feeling malaria evil and six phlegm combination, ambush in the half-expression and half-li.