How to raise lungs in traditional Chinese medicine?

according to traditional Chinese medicine, there are eight methods to treat lung: dispersing lung, purging lung, purging lung, warming lung, moistening lung, nourishing lung and astringing lung. The first four methods belong to eliminating pathogenic factors, warming and moistening the lung have both eliminating pathogenic factors and strengthening the body resistance, and tonifying and astringing the lung belong to strengthening the body resistance. Clinically, each method emphasizes both subtlety and combination of several methods.

dispersing lung qi is the fen depression that can disperse lung qi, and the propagator can disperse it. Ephedra is the representative medicine for dispersing lung qi.

Purging lung means clearing away. Purging lung means not lowering qi, but clearing phlegm, fire and water. It is a great method to spread lung first and then suppress lung, and the combination of spreading lung and suppressing lung belongs to both exterior and interior solutions. It is also considered that the drugs of Huashuiyin are warm to the lung, and the drugs of relieving the lung are gentle or even cold, such as loquat leaves, Aristolochia, aster, Farfara and Stemona.

clearing away lung-heat belongs to the category of clearing away lung-heat, and commonly used drugs include mulberry leaves, gypsum, lalang grass rhizome, bamboo shavings, houttuynia cordata, wild buckwheat roots, scutellaria baicalensis and so on.

purging lung is to purge phlegm-fire and water-dampness in lung, which is different from purging lung in terms of priorities, and its drug nature is fierce, with prickly heat as the representative drug.

Warming the lung is the method of warming the lung and cold drinks. Gancao Ginger Decoction and Xiaoqinglong Decoction belong to the category of warming the lung.

moistening lung, aiming at lung dryness, is represented by Shashen Maidong Decoction and Qingzao Jiufei Decoction, and the medicines for moistening lung include Fritillaria cirrhosa, Fructus Trichosanthis, Anemarrhena, Rhizoma Phragmitis, Trichosanthis Radix, Colla Corii Asini, Shashen, Panax quinquefolium, Ophiopogon japonicus, Dendrobium, Polygonatum odoratum and so on.

lung-tonifying mainly refers to lung-invigorating qi, which is warm but not dry among general qi-invigorating drugs, such as ginseng, astragalus and licorice.

astringing lung is to restrain the dissipation of lung qi, such as Schisandra chinensis, and lung-astringing drugs must be used together with lung-tonifying drugs.