✵The TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) herbalism is also known as pharmaceutics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, or Chinese pharmaceutics, is the branch of health science dealing with the preparation, dispensing, and proper utilization of Chinese herbs. It is majorly composed of Introduction of Chinese Medicinals, Classification of Chinese Herbs, Formulas, and Patent medicines.
Classifications of Herbs:Expectorants,Herbs for Resolving Cold-Phlegm.
Introduction: Expectorants,Herbs for Resolving Cold-Phlegm: an agent or substance herbs warm in property, used in treating disorders of cold-phlegm or phlegm-dampness, also known as warming phlegm-resolving herbs. Expectorants herbs for resolving cold-phlegm mostly are warm and drying in nature, have functions of warming and removing cold-phlegm.
Expectorants herbs for resolving cold-phlegm mostly are warm and drying in property, have functions warming and removing cold-phlegm, or drying dampness and resolving phlegm, etc., and these herbs are mainly used for various syndromes of cold-phlegm or damp-phlegm, and other syndromes due to phlegm, etc. Representative herbs of this kind are Semen Sinapis Albae (Bái Jiè Zǐ), Flos Inulae (Xuán Fù Huā), Rhizoma Cynanchi Stauntonii(Bái Qián), etc.
✵Till January 1st, 2024, there are totally [3] kinds of common TCM herbs, [5] kinds of related plant species, are recorded in this category. These Expectorants,Herbs for Resolving Cold-Phlegm are briefly introduced separately:
Semen Sinapis Albae (White Mustard Seed).
Brief Introduction: The herb Semen Sinapis Albae is the ripe seed of Sinapis alba L (family Cruciferae), used to warm the lung and resolve phlegm for treating a cough with profuse expectoration and stuffy feeling in the chest, and also for treating the cold abscess and pleural fluid retention. The herb is commonly known as Semen Sinapis Albae, White Mustard Seed, Bái Jiè Zǐ.
Flos Inulae (Inula Flower).
Brief Introduction: The herb Flos Inulae is the dried flower-head of Inula britanica L.var.chinensis Regel., Inula britannica L (family Compositae), used as an expectorant for relieving cough and asthma with excessive phlegm, and as an antiemetic for belching and vomiting. The herb is commonly known as Flos Inulae, Inula Flower, Xuán Fù Huā.
Brief Introduction: The herb Rhizoma Cynanchi Stauntonii is the dried rhizome and root of Cynanchum stauntonii (Deone.) Schltr. ex Lévl., or Cynanchum glaucescens (Deone.) Hand. Mazz (family Asclepiadaceae), used for the treatment of cough and dyspnea with profuse phlegm. The herb is commonly known as Rhizoma Cynanchi Stauntonii, Willowleaf Swallowwort Rhizome, Bái Qián.