Phlegm
Kapha (Ayurveda)Tan (TCM)
Bad Kan (Tibet)
Balgam (Unani)
Phlegm can be either a condition in itself marked by excess Phlegm, or related to the Phlegm Humor or a Phlegmatic Constitution. In Humoral Theory, excess Phlegm is viewed as being due to improper digestion and an excess of Phlegm-producing Foods. Therefore, medicines to digest Phlegm mixed with medicines that warm the Digestion is the typical method of treating Phlegm diseases and Phlegm Humor.
Phlegm can be either Hot or Cold. In its own nature, Phlegm is Cold. So a pure Phlegm condition is Cold and Moist. However, Phlegm readily comes with Heat, causing a Phlegm-Heat condition. Cold Phlegm is typically thick and white or copious and clear. Phlegm-Heat may come with hot, sharp phlegm that requires cooling and thickening to enable expectoration. Phlegm-Heat may also be thick and sticky, and hard-to-clear.
- Phlegm-Cold–Cough with clear or whitish sticky phlegm, pale complexion, heaviness of the chest, short of breath, feels the cold, nausea, pale swollen tongue with a sticky white coat and a slippery pulse
- Phlegm-Heat–Expectorating yellow phlegm, cough, heaviness of the chest, rattling of phlegm in the throat, bitter taste, restlessness; maybe with confusion or manic behavior, red tongue with yellow coat, rapid slippery pulse
Ayurvedic Triptighna group of Drugs to clear Phlegm
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Ginger Long Pepper Piper chaba |
Calamus Cyperus rotundus Embelia ribes |
Plumbago zeylanica Sanseviera zeylanica root Tinospora cordifolia |
Trichosanthes dioica |
Primary Tibetan Medicines for Phlegm Diseases
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Chebulic A ru ra Belleric Ba ru ra Polygonatum Ra mnye Rock Salt Rgyam tshwa |
Pomegranate Se bru Radish La phug Sea Buckthorn Star bu Caraway Go snyod |
Pepper Pho ba ri Ginger Sman ga Galangal Sga skya Costus Ru rta |
Tabasheer Cu gang Rhododendron Ba lu Chaenomelas Bse yab Embelia Byi tang ga |
See also
Preparers and Purgers of Phlegm
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Western Tradition Simples
Phlegm, to cleanse Syrup of Vinegar Syrup of Vinegar Compound Oxymel Hiera Picra with Agaric Powder of Turbith (Avicenna) Greater Turbith Powder Pills to Cleanse the Chest Rhododendron 16 (Dwa lis bcu drug) (Tibetan) Phlegm, Crass (undigested) Syrup of Sorrel Syrup of 2 Roots Oxymel Compound Oxymel of Squill Vinegar of Squill Electuary for Crass and Viscid Humors (Azaricon) Diacalamint Arabian Pills (Nicholas) Pills of Rhubarb Phlegma Purgant – Purge Phlegm Decoction of Myrobalan Hiera Picra with Agaric Hiera Logadii Pills of Agrimony Greater (Mesue) Pills of Turbith Phlegma salsum purgat – Salt Phlegm Syrup of Fumitory Greater |
TCM Classification Cold Phlegm Er Chen Tang Dao Tan Tang Phlegm Heat Gun Tan Wan Qing Qi Hua Tan Wan Wen Dan Tang |
Special Formula
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FOETID PILLS OF GALEN Aloe Turbith 5 drams Sagapen Gum Ammoniac Opopanax Bdellium Harmel seed Chebula Colocynth 4 drams Scammony 2 drams Tapsia India Colchicum Esula 2 drams Castoreum Agaric Euphorbium 1 dram Cinnamon Saffron Cardamon Spikenard 5 drams With Gum dissolved in Leek water, form pills. Used for all diseases of the nerves coming from crass and viscid humors (Phlegm and Damp), Joint pain, pain of the whole body; Vertigo, Epilepsy, Migraine, Headache (from Wind-Phlegm), Leprosy Dose: 1–2 drams MINOR FOETID PILLS Sagapen Gum Ammoniac Bdellium Aloe 4 drams Castoreum Harmel 3 drams Colocynth 7 drams Turbith 10 drams Used as the preceding |