Ke Xue Fang - 咳血方 - Coughing Of Blood Formula

English:	Coughing of Blood Formula
Also Known As:

Herbs And Actions

Pharmaceutical Latin	Pin Yin	Dosage	Actions
Water-refined Indigo Naturalis	Shui Fei Qing Dai	6g	Clears Liver Fire, drains Lung Heat and cools the Blood.
Dry-fried Fr. Gardeniae	Chao Zhi Zi	9g	Cools the Blood, relieves toxicity and stops bleeding by astringing.
Sm. Trichosanthis	Gua Lou Ren	9g	Clears Heat, transforms Hot Phlegm, cools and moistens the Lungs and expands the chest.
Pumice	Fu Hai Shi	9g	Clears Heat from the Lungs and transforms Phlegm.
Fr. Chebulae	He Zi	6g	Contains leakage of Lung Qi and stops cough.

Formula Actions

• Clears Fire
• Dissolves Phlegm
• Astringes the Lungs
• Stops coughing

Syndromes

• Liver Fire Scorches the Lungs
• Liver Fire attacking and scorching the Lung (Secondary source)

Clinical Manifestations

Coughing with thick, sticky, Blood-streaked sputum Difficult-to-expectorate sputum stuck in the throat Irritability Fidgeting Short temper

Stabbing pain in the chest and hypochondrium Constipation Red cheeks T: Red C: Yellow P: Wiry and rapid

Treats

Cough Pulmonary tuberculosis Hemoptysis Tracheitis Acute bronchitis Hypertension Lung cancer

Acute tonsillitis Chronic tonsillitis Pneumonia Pleurisy Bronchiectasis Pertussis

Contraindications And Herb/Drug Interactions

Notes

Modifications

For severe cough:		For profuse sputum:
+ Sm. Armeniacae	Xing Ren	+ Bul. Fritillariae Cirrhosae	Chuan Bei Mu
For bloody sputum and chest pain:
+ Lignum Dalbergiae Odoriferae	Jiang Xiang	+ Concretio Silicea Bambusae	Tian Zhu Huang
+ Vascular Citri Reticulatae	Ju Lou	+ Fol. Eriobotryae	Pi Pa Ye
For scanty, difficult-to-expectorate sputum due to Heat:
For epistaxis:
- Fr. Chebulae	He Zi	+ Rx. Glehniae	Bei Sha Shen
- Pumice	Fu Hai Shi	+ Rx. Ophiopogonis	Mai Men Dong
+ Hb. Artemisiae Annuae	Qing Hao	+ Fol. Eriobotryae	Pi Pa Ye
For hemoptysis:
+ Cx. Moutan	Mu Dan Pi	+ Patent Medicine Yunnan Bai Yao
+ Rz. Imperatae	Bai Mao Gen
For hemoptysis with severe Liver Heat:		Or
+ 9g Rx. Gentianae	Long Dan Cao	+ + 3g powdered Rx. Notoginseng	San Qi Fen
+ 12g Haematitum	Dai Zhe Shi