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Clearing dryness and rescuing the lung
清燥救肺 〔清燥救肺〕 qīng zào jiù fèi
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