Qingzao Rescue Lung Soup Theory And Clinical Application Of Literature

Decoction for Reliving Dryness of the Lung (DRDL) was created by a physician named Yu Jiayan in volume four in "Axioms of Medicine". The formula is composed with mulberry leaf, gypsum, ginseng, licorice, black sesame, ass hide glue, ophiopogon, apricot kernel, and loquat leaf. Its main function is to cure all qi huffing and depression and all wilting, panting, and retching ascribed to the lung invaded by dryness-heat. The indications of this formula are clearing dryness, diffusing lung heat and moistening the lung. Because of its precise compatibility and well curative effect, Physicians of past generations had expanded its field of application, continued their clinical and theoretical aspects of the study and achieved significant results. This paper will be a generalization and reduction to DRDL with the theory and preliminary clinical study and summarized.In this paper, we have collected 128 articles between 1999-2009 about DRDL addition and subtraction treating each kind of disease in clinic. From our study, we preliminarily dissect its applied range, indications syndromes, service conditions of the medicine and treatment effet, according to which can indicate us applying this prescriptions in future.The study showed that the scope of DRDL is extremely widespread by addition and subtraction, which involved in respiratory system, digestive system, skin disease, facial features division and infection in more than 30 kinds of diseases, which exceeded the scope of original formula in treating diseases.For example, DRDL by addition and subtraction can treats 11 kinds of diseases in respiratory system, which is mainly consisted of the chronic cough and acute bronchitis patients. Most of cough patients belong to the syndrome of hyperactivity dry cough; the main symptom is dry cough, the utilization ratio of gypsum and dwarf lilyturf is the highest. And the effective rate 95%. The main symptoms are dry cough and mucosity or pus phlegm, the utilization ratio of gypsum, dwarf lilyturf and liquorice is the highest, and the effective rate achieved 96%.DRDL with addition and subtraction treats 6 kinds of diseases in facial features system, the patients with chronic pharyngitis and epistaxis are most in treatment. Most of pharyngitis patients belong to the syndrome of dry heat in lung and stomach; the main symptoms are angina, dry or itch in pharynx dry cough with little phlegm in clinic. The utilization ratio of dwarf lilyturf, liquorice, the leaves of loquat and mulberry is highest, the treatment effectiveness is 91.9%.Beside this, DRDL is also used in facial features division and infection, in which elder cutaneous pruritus occupy the most. The main symptoms are dry and fur of skin, the utilization ratio of Radix Ophiopogonis, Folium Mori, loquatleaf and almond is the highest.The study also showed that clinical physicians applicate this decoction mostly in the forms of altered prescription but not original prescription, especially that most physicians selected calcined plaster instead of Gypsum. In syndrome aspects, they also didn limited to all qi huffing and depression and all wilting, panting, and retching ascribed to the lung invaded by dryness-heat. It was also used to cure other disease. No matter what the cause of pathogenic factors are, and in which season the disease onsets, the application of DRDL are not rigidly adhere to a system. When using this decoction, we should take attention to the clinical manifestations and the pathogenesis. And we may follow the principle "dryness is treated by moistening" according to syndrome differentiation and treatment.