Kuan Dong Hua
Farfarae Flos
acrid, warm
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Relieve Cough and Wheeze
CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Cough
- Wheeze
Kuan Dong Hua is acrid and warm. It only enters the lung system to treat cough from many different etiologies.
Channels: lung
COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:
- Asthma
- Cough
- Sore throat
- Fever
Formulas:
- Ding Chuan Tang
- Jiu Xian San
- She Gan Ma Huang Tang
Contraindications: prescribe Kuan Dong Hua cautiously to patients that present with hemoptysis
Zoo Image: a puffin jumps from a high ladder with balloons of many coughs into a cup of water