From Pathoconditions, Causes, Pulses, and Treatments (症因脉治 zhèng yīn mài zhì). The tendency to counterflow qì when lying down in patients suffering from panting and cough counterflow ascent with periodic ejection of phlegm-rheum, pain in the right rib-side stretching into the supraclavicular fossa, and in severe cases, panting with raised shoulders. Lung congestion sleeplessness is attributable to metal being tormented by fire, phlegm, dryness or cold.
Medicinal therapy: For heat, use Family Secret White-Draining Powder (家秘泻白散jiā mì xiè bái sǎn); for phlegm, use Perilla Seed and Apricot Seed Decoction (苏子杏子汤sū zǐ xìng zǐ tāng) plus pinellia (Pinelliae Rhizoma, 半夏bàn xià) and trichosanthes seed (Trichosanthis Semen, 栝楼子guā lóu zǐ); for dryness, use Family Secret Lung-Moistening Beverage (家秘润肺饮jiā mì rùn fèi yǐn); for cold, use Family Secret Lung-Warming Decoction (家秘温肺汤jiā mì wēn fèi tāng).