12 Formulas for Cough

The Purpose of our ’12 Formulas’ Pages are to illustrate
various formulas used to treat a specific condition on one page. 
This can be useful to help Practitioners develop their own Formulas.

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Emplastic Pills of Galen   Licorice juice   Gum Arabic   Tragacanth 1 oz. ½ oz. each Form pills with Sapa. Powder for Cough of Mesue   Sweet Almond   Sugar   Fennel seed 2 oz. each 1 oz. Stop Cough, relieves Chest pain. (Mesue) Powder for Cough   Ginger   Elecampane   Licorice                  Aniseed   Sugar Candy 8 pennyweight 16 pennyweight 1 oz. 2 oz. 3 oz. (An Hospital for the Diseased, gathered by T.C., 1579) Powder for Cough   Aniseed   Fennel   Maidenhair              Cinnamon   Mastic half dram each 1 dram each Powder for Dry Cough   Poppy seed   Starch   Tragacanth   Gum Arabic   Gourd seed   Quince seed 10 drams 4 drams each 3 drams each Powder. Dose: half–1 dram. (Wirtzung) Powder for Lung Disease and All Cough   Radish seed   Pyrethrum   Elecampane   Orris   Pepper equal parts Powder. Decoction for Cough & Asthma of Galen   Hyssop   Basil   Maidenhair   Horehound   Licorice 6 drams each Decoct down to half, strain and add Honey. Used for Cough, Asthma, Wheezing.

Famous Pills for Cough   Spikenard   Ginger   Sage seed fried   Long Pepper   Sugar Penids 2 drams each 14 drams 12 drams 3 drams Form Pills with Sage Juice. (Medicamentorum Opus, Nicolai Myrepsus 1625) Hospital Pills for Coughs   Licorice rob   Starch   Tragacanth   Sweet Almonds   Gum Arabic   White Sugar Candy 3 drams ea. 5 drams Form pills the size of Chickpeas with Quince seed mucilage. (Dispensatory of Ibn at Tilmid) Lohoch of Fenugreek   Linseed   Fenugreek   Sweet Almond   Tragacanth   Licorice   peeled Pine nut   peeled Bitter Almonds   Wheat Starch   Gum Arabic 15 drams 4 drams each 2 drams each Powder and mix with boiled Wine. Troches for Cough   Fennel seed   Celery seed   Licorice juice   Maidenhair   Sweet Almond equal parts Form Troches. Dose: half–1 dram. (Wirtzung) Pectoral Decoction   Raisins                  Sebestens   Jujubes   Dates   Barley   Licorice   Maidenhair              Hyssop 1 oz. 15 of each 6 1 oz. ½ oz. ½ handful 2 drams Decoct. Used for Cough, Asthma and Lung disease. (Augustana)