桔梗Platycodon

The main effects of Platycodon: promoting lung function, resolving phlegm, benefiting the throat, and discharging pus. Platycodon is pungent and dispersing, bitter and draining; it opens and promotes lung qi, resolves phlegm, and benefits qi flow.

Product Description

中藥名：桔梗

Chinese Medicine Name: Platycodon Root

別名：紫堇、紫菀

Also Known As: Zi Jin, Zi Wan

性味：味苦、辛，性平。

Properties and flavors: bitter and pungent in taste, and neutral in nature.
歸經：肺經。

Channel entered: Lung meridian.
功效：具有宣肺、利咽、祛痰、排膿的作用。

Effects: It has the functions of dispersing the lungs, relieving sore throat, eliminating phlegm, and promoting pus discharge.

適用範圍：多用於治療咳嗽痰多、胸悶不暢、咽痛音啞、肺癰吐膿。
Scope of application: Commonly used to treat cough with excessive phlegm, chest tightness, sore throat with hoarseness, and lung abscess with pus discharge.
禁忌：陰虛久咳、咳血以及脾胃虛弱症狀的患者忌食用。

Contraindications: Patients with yin deficiency chronic cough, coughing up blood, or symptoms of spleen and stomach weakness should avoid consuming it.