1. Radish and Scallion for Wind-Cold Cough
1 radish, 6 scallions, 15 grams of ginger. Use three bowls of water to boil the radish first until soft, then add scallions and ginger, reduce to one bowl of soup. Consume the whole mixture including the residue at once. Promotes lung function and resolves exterior patterns, transforms phlegm and relieves cough. Treats wind-cold cough, excessive foamy phlegm, accompanied by chills, fatigue, and body aches.
2. Brown Sugar Ginger-Date Soup for Cold-Induced Cough
30 grams of brown sugar, 15 grams of fresh ginger, 30 grams of red dates. Boil with three bowls of water until reduced to half. Drink all at once; sweating slightly indicates recovery. Expels wind and disperses cold. Treats cold-induced cough, stomach cold pain, postpartum diarrhea from cold exposure, and lochia retention.
3. Coriander Soup for Cold-Induced Cough
30 grams of coriander (Chinese parsley), 30 grams of maltose, 100 grams of rice. First, wash the rice and cook into soup. Take three spoonfuls of rice soup, mix with coriander and maltose, steam for 10 minutes. Consume while hot, avoiding wind and cold. Promotes sweating and clears exterior patterns. Treats cough caused by colds and flu.
4. White Radish Honey for Wind-Cold Cough
1 large white radish, 30 grams of honey, 5 white peppercorns, 2 grams of ephedra. Wash the radish, slice it, place in a bowl, pour in honey, white peppercorns, and ephedra, then steam for half an hour. Consume while hot and rest in bed until sweating occurs—cure achieved. Induces sweating to dispel cold, relieves cough and transforms phlegm. Treats wind-cold cough.
5. Sheep Honey Ointment for Deficient Labor Cough and Lung Atrophy
250 grams of cooked sheep fat, 250 grams of cooked sheep marrow, 250 grams of white honey, 100 milliliters of ginger juice, 500 milliliters of raw rehmannia juice. Simmer sheep fat until boiling; then add sheep marrow and bring to boil again; next add honey, rehmannia juice, and ginger juice, stirring continuously over low heat until thickened into a paste. Take one spoonful daily on an empty stomach, mixed with warm wine, or used as ginger tea or porridge. Nourishes deficiency, moistens the lungs, expels wind and detoxifies. Treats yin deficiency fever, bone-steaming labor fever, weakness from chronic illness, cough with lung atrophy, and also moisturizes lungs and skin.
6. Fresh Pear and Fritillary Powder for Cough and Lung Abscess
500 grams of fresh pear, 6 grams of fritillary powder, 30 grams of sugar. Peel the pear, halve it, remove the core, fill with fritillary powder and sugar, close it, place in a bowl, and steam until cooked. Eat twice daily. Clears heat, transforms phlegm, disperses nodules, and resolves exterior patterns. Used for cough or lung abscess, presenting with chest pain, chills, cough, fever, dry mouth, sore throat, yellow, foul-smelling sputum, or bloody sputum.
7. Horse Milk Decoction to Clear Heat and Relieve Cough
300 milliliters of fresh horse milk, sugar as needed. Boil the horse milk, add sugar when drinking. According to the *Tang Bencao*, horse milk “quenches thirst and treats heat,” having benefits of replenishing blood, generating body fluids, moistening dryness, and relieving cough. It serves as a good auxiliary treatment for cough and tidal fever.
8. Rock Sugar Bird's Nest Porridge for Chronic Lung Deficiency Cough
10 grams of bird's nest, 100 grams of rice, 50 grams of rock sugar. Soak bird's nest in warm water until soft, remove hair and impurities, then soak further in boiling water. Take the softened bird's nest. Wash rice, place in pot with three bowls of water, bring to high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer. Add the purified, expanded bird's nest and cook together with rice for about one hour, then stir in rock sugar until dissolved. Nourishes yin, moistens the lungs, relieves cough and transforms phlegm. Treats chronic lung deficiency cough and cough with qi deficiency.
9. Bird's Nest and Pear for Nourishing Lung Yin
5 grams of bird's nest (soaked in water), 2 pears, 10 grams of Sichuan Fritillary Bulb, 5 grams of rock sugar. Remove the core of the pear, place the other three ingredients inside, cover tightly, place in a bowl, and steam until cooked. Consume. Nourishes yin, moistens dryness, relieves cough and transforms phlegm. Treats long-standing cough with phlegm, shortness of breath, and fatigue.
10. Radish and White Pepper for Cough and Phlegm Relief
1 radish, 5 white peppercorns, 3 slices of ginger, 1 piece of aged tangerine peel. Boil together with water for 30 minutes. Drink the broth twice daily. Regulates Qi and eliminates phlegm. Treats cough with excessive phlegm.
11. Soybean Drink to Moisturize Lungs and Calm Cough
Soybeans, rock sugar. Soak soybeans, grind into juice, boil, then add sugar to drink. Consume one bowl every morning on an empty stomach. Strengthens the spleen, widens the middle energizer, moistens dryness, removes dampness; clears the lungs, relieves cough, and transforms phlegm. Treats malnutrition and weakness, lung heat cough, etc.
12. Tofu and Sugar for Cough, Phlegm, and Wheezing
500 grams of tofu, 100 grams each of brown sugar and rock sugar. Hollow out the center of the tofu, fill with both sugars, place in a bowl, and steam over water for 30 minutes. Eat in one sitting, repeat four times. Clears heat, generates body fluids, moistens dryness. Treats cough with phlegm and wheezing.
13. Corn Silk and Tangerine Peel for Cough
Corn silk, tangerine peel, both in appropriate amounts. Boil together with water, take twice daily. Relieves cough and transforms phlegm. Treats wind-cold cough with excessive phlegm.
14. Radish and Pig Lung Soup for Cough Relief
1 radish, 1 pig lung, 15 grams of apricot kernels. Boil together with water for one hour. Eat meat and drink soup. Clears heat, transforms phlegm, relieves cough and wheezing. Treats persistent cough and excessive phlegm with shortness of breath.
15. Sugar-Boiled Egg for Deficiency and Cough Relief
50 grams of sugar, 1 egg, fresh ginger as needed. First, beat the egg in a bowl. Boil sugar with half a bowl of water, then pour hot liquid over the egg, stir, then add freshly squeezed ginger juice, mix well. Take twice daily, morning and evening. Nourishes deficiency. Treats chronic cough that does not heal.
16. Roasted Sesame and Rock Sugar Water for Nighttime Cough
15 grams of raw sesame seeds, 10 grams of rock sugar. Place both in a bowl, pour boiling water over, and drink. Moistens the lungs and generates body fluids. Treats persistent nighttime cough without phlegm.
Note: A handful of sesame seeds and 50 grams of ginger, crushed and boiled into juice, also yields similar effects.
17. Fried Lamb Liver with Sesame Oil for Chronic Cough
60 grams of lamb liver, 30 grams of sesame oil, a pinch of salt. Cut the liver into slices, heat sesame oil in a pan until nearly smoking, add liver and salt, stir-fry briefly. Moistens the lungs and relieves cough. Treats chronic cough that persists.
18. Steamed White Pear with Honey for Chronic Dry Cough and Throat Dryness
1 large white pear, 50 grams of honey. Remove the core of the pear, fill with honey, steam until cooked. Consume one per day in the morning and evening, continue for several days. Generates body fluids, moistens dryness, relieves cough and transforms phlegm. Treats chronic dry cough and dry throat due to yin deficiency, with heat in hands and feet.
19. Bird's Nest and Tremella for Dry Cough and Night Sweats
10 grams of bird's nest, 15 grams of tremella, rock sugar as needed. First, rinse bird's nest with clean water, then soak in hot water for 3–4 hours, pick out feathers and impurities, then soak again in hot water for one hour. Place bird's nest, tremella, and rock sugar in a ceramic pot or covered bowl, steam over water until cooked. Consume. Nourishes deficiency, nourishes lung yin, reduces false heat. Treats dry cough, night sweats, or lung yin deficiency.
20. Yam Porridge for Strengthening the Spleen and Lungs
30 grams of fresh yam, a little sugar. Grind yam into fine powder, mix with cold water, cook while stirring, boil for two or three bubbles, then add a little sugar for flavor. Consume. Strengthens the spleen and stops diarrhea, tonifies the kidneys and consolidates essence. Treats cough and wheezing due to overwork, spleen deficiency diarrhea, and all kinds of weakness and deficiency.
21. Honey-Steamed Yam for Chronic Lung Deficiency Cough
1000 grams of yam, 10 honey dates, 100 grams of lard bits, 350 grams of sugar, osmanthus juice, wet starch, and a little lard. (1) Wash yam, place in pot with water covering it, boil over high heat until soft, then remove skin, cut into 6 cm long, 3 cm wide rectangles, flatten. Halve honey dates, remove pits, set aside. (2) Coat a large bowl with lard, arrange honey dates at the bottom, then layer yam, sprinkle sugar and lard bits, repeating until full, sprinkle more sugar on top, cover with lid, steam for about one hour. Remove, invert onto a plate. (3) Heat a wok, pour out the sauce from the bowl, add 100 grams of water, 150 grams of sugar, and a little osmanthus juice, boil, thicken with starch slurry, pour over the yam. Nourishes the kidneys and moistens the lungs. Treats chronic lung deficiency cough, spleen deficiency diarrhea, fatigue, weakness, and long-term use strengthens the body.
22. Pork and Apricot Kernel Soup for Itchy Throat and Cough
50 grams of lean pork, 10 grams of apricot kernels, 15 grams of northern ginseng. Boil together to make soup. Drink twice daily. Clears the lungs, transforms phlegm, generates body fluids. Treats cough with little phlegm, thirst, dry throat, and itchiness.
23. Peanut, Date, and Honey Soup for Cough and Phlegm Relief
30 grams each of peanuts, jujubes, and honey. Boil until very soft. Drink the soup, twice daily. Stops cough and transforms phlegm. Treats cough and phlegm (emaciation, intestinal rumbling, distension in chest and ribs, dizziness, shortness of breath).
24. Peanut and Ginseng Soup for Cough with Little Phlegm
25 grams each of peanuts, ginkgo nuts, lily bulbs, and northern ginseng, rock sugar as needed. Boil to extract juice, add rock sugar. One dose daily. Moistens the lungs and transforms phlegm. Treats chronic cough with little phlegm, shortness of breath, dry throat.
25. Polygonatum and Rock Sugar for Cough and Wheezing
30 grams of polygonatum (herbal medicine), 50 grams of rock sugar. Wash polygonatum, soak in cold water, place in a clay pot, add rock sugar, add sufficient water. Place on stove, boil with high heat, then simmer with low heat until polygonatum is soft. Take twice daily, eat polygonatum and drink the broth. Clears lung heat, regulates the spleen, enriches essence. Treats cough due to lung dryness and deficiency, dry cough without phlegm, difficulty expectorating, poor appetite, dry mouth, kidney deficiency, and essence depletion.
26. Lily and Snow Pear Soup for Nourishing Yin and Moistening Lungs
25 grams of lilies, 1 large snow pear, 20 grams of rock sugar. Soak lilies in clean water overnight. Next day, transfer lilies with water into a clay pot, add more than half a bowl of water, boil for 1.5 hours. When lilies are soft, add peeled and cubed snow pear and rock sugar, boil for another 30 minutes. Nourishes yin, moistens lungs, calms the mind and relieves cough. Beneficial for chronic lung deficiency cough; even healthy people benefit for lung and stomach health.
27. Tremella Duck Egg Soup for Nourishing Yin and Clearing Lungs
15 grams of tremella, 25 grams of rock sugar, 1 duck egg. Boil tremella and rock sugar together, once boiling, add duck egg. Take twice daily. Nourishes yin, clears lungs, quenches thirst, generates body fluids. Treats cough with little phlegm, dry throat, and thirst due to lung yin deficiency.
28. Bamboo Juice Porridge for Clearing Heat and Transforming Phlegm
30 grams of bamboo juice, 100 grams of rice. First, cook rice into porridge, just before finishing, add bamboo juice, stir well. Consume freely. Clears heat, expels phlegm, calms shock. Treats wind-heat phlegm-fire, lung heat cough, and yellow, abundant phlegm.
29. Lo Han Guo and Persimmon Cake Soup for Clearing Lung Heat
Half a Lo Han Guo, 3 persimmon cakes, 30 grams of rock sugar. Boil with two and a half bowls of water until reduced to one and a half bowls, add rock sugar, strain. Drink all in three portions within a day. Clears lung heat, removes phlegm-fire, relieves cough. Treats infantile whooping cough and phlegm-fire cough.
30. Fig and Rock Sugar Water for Lung Heat Cough
30 grams of figs, rock sugar as needed. Wash figs, boil with water and rock sugar. Once daily, continue for 3–5 days for noticeable effect. Removes phlegm, regulates Qi, moistens lungs, relieves cough, detoxifies, and lubricates the intestines. Treats lung heat cough, hoarseness, dry throat and pain, constipation, and hemorrhoids.
31. Sugarcane Juice for Deficient Lung Heat Cough
Half a cup each of sugarcane juice and radish juice, 100 grams of wild lily. First, boil the lily until soft, then mix in the two juices. Consume before bedtime, once daily. Moistens lungs, relieves cough, generates body fluids, and calms the spirit. Ideal for deficient heat cough; best for those recovering from illness with bronchitis.
32. Milk Soup Fish for Cough and Swelling Relief
1 live carp, ham slices, magnolia flower slices, shiitake mushroom slices, scallions, ginger, cooking wine, salt, vinegar, and "milk soup" (broth made from chicken, duck wing tips, and bones), all as needed. Clean the carp, scale and gut it, wash thoroughly, cut into small chunks, toss with scallions and ginger in a pan, stir-fry briefly, add cooking wine, salt, and other seasonings. Then add "milk soup", bring to a boil, add ham, magnolia, and mushroom slices, simmer for about 3 minutes, serve in a hot pot. Light the alcohol under the pot upon serving, enjoy with ginger and vinegar sauce. Relieves cough and swelling, nourishes and strengthens the body. Suitable for patients with cough, wheezing, and chest fullness.
33. Long-Term Consumption of Peanuts for Cough and Phlegm Relief
60 grams of roasted or boiled peanuts. Eat daily without interruption until cured, then stop. Moistens the lungs and transforms phlegm. Treats chronic bronchitis in the elderly. Note: Avoid consumption if suffering from real heat or excess fire.
34. Buckwheat Flour and Egg White for Cough Disturbance
Buckwheat flour and egg whites as needed. Mix egg whites with buckwheat flour into a dough. Apply multiple times daily by rubbing firmly on the chest. Clears heat and lowers Qi. Treats chest fullness, abdominal distension, and restless cough.
35. Lily and Honey for Lung Heat and Irritable Cough
200 grams of fresh lily, honey as needed. Mix honey with lily and steam until soft. Chew and swallow a piece at a time. Clears lung heat and calms the spirit. Treats lung congestion with irritability and cough.
36. Burnt Pine Resin and Rice Syrup for Chronic Cough with Excessive Phlegm
Rice syrup and burnt pine resin (charred ash from thick, old pine wood split into thin strips and burned) as needed. The darker the char, the better. Consume as much of the charred mass with syrup as possible. Continue for 3–4 days to achieve cure. Moistens lungs, relieves cough, transforms phlegm, and calms wheezing. Treats chronic cough with excessive phlegm and shortness of breath.
37. Sword Flower Soup for Phlegm and Chest Pain Relief
2 sword flowers, boiled into soup or drunk as tea. Moves Qi, relieves pain, relieves cough, and transforms phlegm. Treats cough and excessive phlegm. Note: Sword flower is the blossom of the dragon tree (a climbing cactus plant), mainly found in southern regions. It blooms from May to October, producing large white flowers over a span of more than a palm-length. Harvested, sliced, and dried, it becomes a delicious dried vegetable, with a sweet and fragrant soup.
38. Autumn Pear Paste for Cough and Phlegm Relief
20 pears, 1000 grams of red dates, 1500 grams of fresh lotus root, 300 grams of fresh ginger, 400 grams of rock sugar, 400 grams of honey, and additional honey as needed. Crush pears, dates, lotus root, and ginger, extract juice, heat and boil into a paste, dissolve rock sugar, then add honey to finish. Can be taken anytime in the morning or evening. Clears lung heat, reduces fire, relieves cough and phlegm, moistens dryness, generates body fluids, relieves irritability and thirst, eliminates alcohol toxicity, and promotes health. Treats chronic cough due to deficiency, dry mouth, insufficient body fluids, irritability, thirst, and alcohol poisoning.
39. Bird's Nest and Ginseng Soup for Lung Health and Cough Relief
5 grams of bird's nest, 5 grams of American ginseng. Soak bird's nest in clean water until soft, remove feathers and impurities, wash, drain, then place with American ginseng in a clay pot, fill with water to eight-tenths full, cover, steam over water for over three hours. Consume. Nourishes yin, moistens dryness, reduces fire, and boosts Qi. Treats dry cough, hemoptysis, tidal fever, and night sweats due to lung and stomach yin deficiency. Especially beneficial for cardiovascular patients with cough and wheezing.
40. Sugar-Pickled Orange Peel for Cough and Phlegm Relief
Orange peel and rock sugar as needed. Fresh orange peel or soaked dried peel, wash, cut into strips, place in aluminum pot, add about half the weight of the peel in rock sugar, add water to cover the peel, boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat until liquid nearly evaporates. Remove the peel, place on a plate, let cool, then sprinkle with about half the weight of the peel in rock sugar, mix well. Consume. Moistens lungs, dries dampness, transforms phlegm, generates body fluids. Treats cough with excessive phlegm.
41. Honey-Pickled Pomelo Meat for Asthma and Phlegm Relief
500 grams of fresh pomelo flesh, 250 grams of honey, a little wine. Remove the core from pomelo, cut into pieces, place in jar, pour in wine, seal tightly, let steep overnight, then transfer to aluminum pot, boil until liquid nearly evaporates, add honey, mix well. Cool, store in bottle. Moistens lungs, relieves cough, transforms phlegm. Treats cough with excessive phlegm or chronic asthma in the elderly.
42. Honey-Pickled Double Nuts for Kidney and Lung Tonification
250 grams of sweet almonds, 250 grams of walnut kernels, 500 grams of honey. First, roast sweet almonds until golden (do not burn), place in aluminum pot with water, boil for one hour, then add walnut kernels, reduce until nearly dry, add honey, stir until boiling again. Take 3 grams each time, twice daily. Moistens lungs and tonifies kidneys. Regular consumption treats chronic cough and wheezing due to dual lung-kidney deficiency.
43. Pork Fat and Honey Ointment for Deficiency and Moistening Lungs
100 grams of pork fat, 100 grams of honey. Simmer each separately over low heat until boiling, stop heating, cool down, then mix thoroughly. Take one spoonful each time, twice daily. Moistens lungs and relieves cough, nourishes deficiency. Treats cough due to lung dryness.
44. Garlic Paste for Cough Relief and Sedation
1 head of purple garlic. Peel garlic, crush into paste. Before bedtime, after washing feet, apply paste to the Yongquan acupoint (sole of both feet). Cover with a gauze cloth. Remove when strong stimulation is felt. If no discomfort, continue for 3–5 applications. Detoxifies and sedates cough. Treats wind-cold cough, dry cough, and infantile whooping cough.
45. Broad Bean Flowers and Rock Sugar Water for Hemoptysis
9 grams of broad bean flowers, rock sugar as needed. Boil together with water. Take twice or thrice daily. Has astringent properties. Treats hemoptysis.
46. Amaranth and White Radish Juice for Hemoptysis
2 amaranth plants (with roots), 1 white radish, honey as needed. Wash amaranth and radish, crush together, squeeze juice (about one cup). Mix with honey and consume. Treats hemoptysis due to lung heat.
47. Honey and Stemonopsis Decoction for Blood in Phlegm
20 grams of honey, 25 grams of stemonopsis, 20 grams of white hair, 25 grams of trichosanthes. First, boil the first three ingredients, filter out residue, collect juice, then mix in honey and stir well. One dose daily, divided into two servings. Moistens lungs, relieves cough, clears heat, and stops bleeding. Treats blood in phlegm and chronic cough due to tuberculosis.
48. Sour Pomegranate for Tuberculosis Cough and Wheezing
3 grams of sour pomegranate (sweet ones ineffective). Extract seeds, crush, squeeze juice. Consume before bedtime each night, or chew seeds and swallow juice. Pomegranate seed juice has mild toxicity—do not consume in excess. Clears heat and contracts the lungs. Treats cough and wheezing due to tuberculosis, insomnia, and chronic bronchitis in the elderly.
49. White Radish Seeds for Phlegm Accumulation
15 grams each of raw and cooked white radish seeds (also called turnip seeds), 9 grams of raw hematite powder. First, crush white radish seeds and boil into a large bowl of soup, take with powdered hematite. Half an hour later, repeat the dose. Eliminates accumulation and transforms phlegm. Treats phlegm accumulation syndrome. According to *Medical Reflections from the Middle and West*, a young man with excessive phlegm suffered from external infection causing phlegm stagnation in the upper abdomen, blocking food intake. After using this formula, he immediately felt relief and could resume eating.
Note: As mentioned in *Shi's Prescription Studies*, simply boiling turnip seeds alone to dissolve accumulated phlegm and retained fluid is highly effective. Grinding turnip seeds into powder, dissolving in warm water, drinking plenty of hot water, and inducing vomiting with finger probing can expel phlegm and retained fluid—same effect as decoction.
50. Steamed Fritillary Turtle for Nourishing Yin and Strengthening Lungs
5 grams of Sichuan Fritillary Bulb, 1 turtle (~500 grams), 1 kilogram of chicken clear soup, scallions, ginger, Sichuan pepper, cooking wine, salt as needed. Kill the turtle, remove head and internal organs, cut into pieces. Place turtle pieces in a steaming bowl, add fritillary bulb, salt, cooking wine, Sichuan pepper, scallions, ginger, steam for about one hour. Consume while hot. Nourishes yin, clears heat, moistens lungs, relieves cough, and reduces fever. Treats yin deficiency cough and wheezing, low-grade fever, night sweats, etc.
51. Mustard and Ginger Soup for Phlegm and Cough Relief
80 grams of fresh mustard greens, 10 grams of fresh ginger, a pinch of salt. Wash mustard greens, chop into small pieces, slice ginger, add four bowls of water, boil until reduced to two bowls, season with salt. Take twice daily for three days to see results. Promotes lung function, relieves cough, disperses wind and cold. Treats wind-cold cough with headache, nasal congestion, and body aches.
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