Jie Geng - Lab Tested, 1lb

Primary Actions and Uses

• Opens up and disseminates lung qi: For cough with profuse sputum, chest congestion, or loss of voice.
• Benefits the throat: For sore throat, hoarseness, or throat pain due to wind-heat, wind-cold, or lung heat.
• Transforms phlegm: For lung phlegm of either hot or cold nature, used to facilitate expectoration.
• Expels pus: For lung abscess with cough, fever, and purulent sputum; also for throat abscess with swelling and pain.
• Raises lung qi: Directs the actions of other herbs to the upper body, particularly the lung and throat.

Context and Traditional Notes

• Bitter, acrid, and neutral; enters the Lung channel. Classified in TCM as an herb that cools and transforms phlegm-heat, though it treats phlegm of various types.
• Often paired with herbs that clear heat and resolve toxicity for throat disorders, or with tonics to guide their effects upward.
• Because it raises qi, caution is needed in cases of chronic cough from lung yin deficiency.