Yin tonics
Bai he gu jin tang
Lily Bulb Decoction to Preserve the Metal
- Chinese name
- 百合固金汤
- Group
- Yin tonics
- English name
- Lily Bulb Decoction to Consolidate the Lungs
- Basic formula
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Nourishes the yin of lung and kidney, moistens the lung and dissolves phlegm.
Indications
For yin deficiency of lung and kidney with mild fire: chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, asthma, coughing up blood, chronic pharyngitis and laryngitis and vocal cord polyps. The book also mentions a collapsed lung, pulmonary heart disease, silicosis and pulmonary tuberculosis, always together with Western medicine.
Ingredients
Variations
- For much phlegm: add trichosanthes fruit and mulberry root bark.
- For fever with yellow or green phlegm: add zhi mu and houttuynia.
- For pulmonary tuberculosis with heat, shortness of breath, night sweats and red cheeks, the book describes adding softshell turtle shell, together with Western treatment.
- For constipation: add trichosanthes seed.
- For coughing up blood: omit platycodon; add cogon grass and agrimony.
- The book also mentions a variant for lung cancer with yin deficiency (adding houttuynia, red peony, ban zhi lian and oldenlandia), as a supplement to and never instead of treatment.