How to treat phlegm

Phlegm drinking is a kind of disease syndrome caused by lung, spleen and kidney dysfunction caused by exogenous cold and dampness, improper diet, fatigue and body deficiency, abnormal metabolism of water in the body and accumulation in some parts of the body. Broad sense phlegm drinking refers to phlegm drinking, suspension drinking, overflow drinking and branch drinking. Narrow sense phlegm drinking refers to stopping gastrointestinal tract. Phlegm drinking and spleen yang deficiency treatment is to warm spleen and transform yin, with Ling Gui Shu Gan Tang and Xiao Banxia Decoction modified; gastrointestinal stopping treatment is to attack water drinking as law, with Gansui Banxia Decoction modified. Suspending yin evil invading chest and lung is treated by reconciling and promoting diuresis, using Chai Zhi Banxia Decoction; stopping drinking chest and hypochondrium to expel water is the method, using Shizao Decoction to modify; regulating qi is the method, using Cyperus rotundus Decoction to modify; yin deficiency internal heat to nourish yin and clear heat is the method, using Radix Ginseng and Radix Mai Decoction to reduce excessive drinking to relieve exterior heat is the method, using Xiaoqinglong Decoction to modify; supporting cold drinking to suppress lung is the method, using Xiaoqinglong Decoction; drinking evil to block lung is the method of purging lung and expelling water, using Tingli Jujube Xiefei Decoction; Spleen yang deficiency to warm the spleen and kidney into water for the law, with Jingui Shenqi pills and Ling Gui Shu Gan Tang modified.