Clearing dryness and rescuing the lung

A method of treatment used to address dryness-heat damaging the lung and causing lung wilting. Clearing dryness and rescuing the lung involves clearing lung-stomach heat with cool sweet and slightly acrid medicinals, boosting stomach qì, and enriching kidney water to protect lung-metal. It avoids the use of both cold bitter and warm-hot medicinals.

A representative formula is Dryness-Clearing Lung-Rescuing Decoction (清燥救肺汤 qīng zào jiù fèi tāng).