Hua Gai San (Canopy Powder)

Canopy Powder

Bo Ji Fang, 1047

• Ma Huang (diffuse Lung) – chief; Xing Ren, Su Zi (descend/transform phlegm)
• Sang Bai Pi, Chen Pi, Fu Ling, Gan Cao

• Diffuses the Lung and disperses wind-cold
• Transforms phlegm and calms wheezing

Wind-cold attacking the Lung with phlegm: cough and wheezing with copious sputum, a stifling chest, nasal congestion, and chills and fever.

Tongue: thin white coat. Pulse: floating and slippery.

For Lung heat use a cooling diffusing formula instead.

For wind-cold with phlegm; not for Lung heat or dry cough. Contains Ma Huang.