Eriobotrya leaf-calming stomach qi, moistening heart and lung, nourishing liver and kidney.
Eriobotrya leaves: Miao medicine farmers harvest in early spring when the trees just grow new buds, and dry them in the sun for medicine. It has the effects of clearing away lung-heat, relieving cough, soothing the liver, regulating qi, regulating stomach, reducing adverse flow, diminishing inflammation and quenching thirst. "Herbal Yan Hui": "Loquat leaves are medicines for calming stomach qi, moistening heart and lungs and nourishing liver and kidney."
Hedyotis diffusa-clearing away heat and toxic materials, resisting bacteria and diminishing inflammation
Hedyotis diffusa: slightly bitter, slightly sweet and slightly cold. Meridian of heart, liver and spleen. Clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating carbuncle and resolving hard mass, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Used for sore throat, lung heat, asthma and cough, cold shower, damp-heat jaundice, poisonous snake bite, sore swelling and heat carbuncle.
Ephedra-dispersing lung qi, dispelling cold and relieving asthma
Ephedra: pungent, slightly bitter, warm in nature. It belongs to lung and bladder meridian and has antipyretic, antibacterial, antitussive and expectorant effects. It can be used for asthma and cough syndrome caused by wind-cold external bundle and stagnation of lung qi, and can spread lung qi, dispel wind-cold and relieve asthma.
Asthma is a syndrome of deficiency of lung, kidney and spleen.
Miao doctors believe that the lung is the master of qi and the kidney is the root of qi. Lung meridian can't control qi, and kidney deficiency can't absorb qi, so qi goes against the upper level and occurs in asthma. Spleen is the source of biochemistry, spleen deficiency produces phlegm, which blocks the airway, so it causes asthma, cough and shortness of breath. Therefore, asthma is the lung.