治咳嗽冷气膈胀 用干姜末，热酒调半钱服。兼治头旋目眩，立效。
治痰嗽 用贝母为末，沙糖丸含化。
治肺痰久嗽，涕唾多，骨节烦闷寒热 用甘草炙为末，每日取童便三合，调末一钱服。
治久嗽不瘥 用紫菀去芦头、款冬花各一两，百部半两，为末。每服三钱，生姜三片，
乌梅一个，煎汤调下，食后、临卧各一服。
治嗽 用百部根捣自然汁和蜜等分，沸煎成膏。每服方寸匕，日三服。
治久患气嗽 用陈皮、生姜焙干、神曲等分，为末，丸如桐子大。食后、夜卧米饮下三
五十丸。亦治膀胱。
治咳嗽胸膈胀满，气喘 用桃仁二两去皮尖，水一升，研取汁，和粳米二合，煮粥食之。
治咳嗽憎寒壮热，少喜多嗔，积渐少食，肺脉强紧 用杏仁半斤去皮尖，入瓶内，童便
二斗浸七日漉出，暖水淘过，研成泥，别入瓷瓶中，童便五升，煎如膏。量轻重食上热水调
一钱匕服。妇人、室女服之更妙。若作丸服亦好。
治肺气润五脏 用胡麻一升，蒸曝捣末，蜜一升和熬，丸之常服。
治咳嗽甚者或吐血 用桑白皮一斤，米泔浸三宿，刮去黄皮锉细，入糯米四两焙干，共
为末。每服米饮调二钱服。
治久患气嗽 用生诃梨一枚，含之咽汁，瘥后口不知味，却煎槟榔汤一碗，服之立便知
味。
又方 用鹿角胶炙半焦为末。每服一钱匕，人参末二钱匕，豉汤一盏半，葱白少许，煎
一两沸倾入盏，遇嗽时呷三五口，后温尽服。
治肺破血出，忽嗽血不止 用海犀膏一大片炙焦，以水胶涂又炙，令通透可碾为末。汤
化三
治冷嗽 用陈锻石为末，以小饭为丸如桐子大。每服三十丸，姜汤下。
治伤力诸嗽 用人参、雄黄、雌黄、阿胶炒、五加皮、款冬花各三钱，为末。先用夹纸
五寸一方，熔开黄蜡汁内蘸过，以熟艾铺一层于蜡纸上，却以药末匀糁艾上，又以桑枝白皮
细细摊匀，卷为筒，灯上点着一头，以不点一头含口内，每吸烟一口，以茶清压之。
治暴嗽 用白蚬壳洗净，研细末，粥饮调服。
治远年咳嗽 用款冬花为末，烧烟口吸。
治咳嗽不止 用干浮萍一抄捣烂，水一钟，煎数沸服。
治肺脏蕴热痰嗽，胸膈塞满 用瓜蒌子去壳别研、半夏汤洗七次焙干为末，各一两，和
匀，姜汁打面糊丸如桐子大。每服五十丸，食后姜汤下。
治感冒风邪，鼻塞声重，咳嗽喘急 用甘草生、麻黄不去节、杏仁不去皮尖，等分细锉。
每
治风壅，化痰涎，利咽膈，清头目，除咳嗽，止烦热 用寒水石烧赤、出火毒、水飞过
三两，半夏洗焙为末、白矾枯研细各一两，糊丸如梧桐子大。每服三十丸，食后姜汤下。
治痰壅涎，嗽久不已 用橘皮半两去白，半夏二钱半汤洗七次，为末。分作二服，每服
水一盏半，生姜十片，煎七分，去渣，温服。
治一切痰嗽不已，诸药无效，世传极验 用粟壳一斤醋炒，乌梅四两，为末。每服二、
三钱，沸汤点常服，食后日三服。
治寒嗽 用麻黄四两，官桂一两，为末，以蜡二钱同煎，每服一、二钱，温服。
治胸中热，积年咳嗽 用莨菪子二升，肥枣一百枚。水三升，慢火煮水尽，取枣，旦、
暮、日午各食一枚。去胸中毒热，气嗽自止。
治热劳蒸嗽唾血者 用地黄汁三合，白粥搅匀，空心食之。
治肺病咳嗽唾脓 用薏苡仁三两为末，水一升，煎三合，入酒一合，温服无时，大效。
治热嗽 用紫花梨捣汁服，亦止消渴。
治诸般咳嗽 用天雄炮裂去皮脐，为末。每服一字，温酒调下立愈，勿多服。
治肺伤 用紫菀水煎服之效。
又方 用沙参为末，水煎服之。
治 呷咳嗽，喉中作声不得眠 用白前为末，温酒调二钱匕服。
治久嗽 用乌梅肉四两炒，粟壳四两，去顶瓤，蜜炒黄，通圣散四两，为末；先用麻黄
四两，知母二钱，锉碎，河水熬味出，澄清入瓷器，再熬成膏，和前末丸如弹子大，朱砂金
箔为衣。每服一丸，临卧细嚼，姜汤送下。
治痰嗽 用白矾一两，人参半两，巴豆十粒去皮油，为末，醋糊丸如桐子大，豆粉为衣。
每
又方 用知母、贝母各一两，巴豆二十粒去皮细，为末。每服一字，生姜三片蘸末，卧
细嚼下，次早利一行，粥补甚效。
治诸嗽久不愈 用人参、阿胶炒、款冬花、粟壳醋浸炒等分。每服三钱，乌梅二个，水
盏半，煎七分半，夜服。
治KT 嗄 用萆麻子去壳炒熟，拣甜者吃，多服见效。
治咳嗽 用南星炮裂为末，每服一钱，水一盏，生姜七片，煎至五分，温服。空心、日
午、临卧各一服。大治风痰。
治久嗽成痨，肺痿 用天门冬、麦门冬、知母、杏仁各三两，当归、地黄、黄连、阿胶
各一两半，蒲黄、京墨、桔梗、薄荷各一两，麝香少许，各根据常法修制为末，和匀，银器内
炼白蜜丸如弹子大。每日三食后，浓煎薄荷汤漱口，细嚼一丸，津唾送下。上床时再噙一丸，
仰
凡治嗽 当审其或为风、寒、湿、热之气所干；或因喜、怒、忧、思过度；或啖咸酸而
停饮；或嗜欲负重而劳伤，皆能致嗽，各当随其所感施治。仍须量其虚实用药，则疾易愈，
而无差误之失，切宜慎之。
Treatment for cough with cold qi and chest/diaphragm distension: Use dried ginger powder, mixed with hot wine and taken as half a qian. It also treats dizziness and vertigo, with immediate effect.
Treatment for phlegm-cough: Use Fritillariae Bulbus (Beimu) ground into powder, formed into pills with rock sugar to be dissolved in the mouth.
Treatment for chronic lung deficiency cough with excessive nasal discharge and saliva, bone joint restlessness accompanied by aversion to cold and fever: Use roasted Licorice Root (Gancao) ground into powder. Take three he of child's urine daily, mix with one qian of powder, and ingest.
Treatment for chronic cough that does not heal: Use Pericarpium Stimulans (Ziwan) with rhizome removed and Flower of Winter Jasmine (Kuandonghua), each one liang, plus Radix Stemona (Baibu) half a liang, ground into powder. Take three qian per dose, with three slices of fresh ginger and one dark plum (Wumei), decocted in water to take the medicine. Take once after meals and once before bed.
Treatment for cough: Crush root of Radix Stemona (Baibu) to obtain natural juice, mix equally with honey, boil until it becomes a paste. Take one fangcunbi per dose, three times a day.
Treatment for chronic qi-cough: Use Exocarpium Citri Reticulatae (Chenpi), dried roasted fresh ginger, and Massae Medicatae Fermentatae (Shenqu) in equal parts, ground into powder, formed into pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30-50 pills after meals and before sleep with rice drink. This formula also treats bladder conditions.
Treatment for cough with chest/diaphragm fullness and asthma: Take two liang of Peach Kernel (Taoren), remove skin and pointed ends, add one sheng of water, grind to extract juice, mix with two he of glutinous rice, cook into porridge and eat.
Treatment for cough with severe aversion to cold and high fever, irritability rather than joy, gradual decrease in appetite, and strong/tight lung pulse: Take half a jin of Apricot Seed (Xingren), remove skin and pointed ends, place in a bottle, soak in two dou of child's urine for seven days, drain, rinse with warm water, grind into paste. Place separately in a porcelain bottle, add five sheng of child's urine, simmer until it becomes a paste. Depending on severity, take one qianbi mixed with hot water after meals. It is especially effective for women and unmarried girls. Taking it as pills is also good.
Treatment to moisten lung qi and nourish the five zang organs: Take one sheng of Sesame Seed (Huma), steam and dry, grind into powder, mix with one sheng of honey, simmer, form into pills, and take regularly.
Treatment for severe cough or hemoptysis: Take one jin of Cortex Mori Sangbai (Sangbaipi), soak in rice washing water for three nights, scrape off yellow skin, cut finely, add four liang of glutinous rice, bake dry, grind together into powder. Take two qian mixed with rice drink per dose.
Treatment for chronic qi-cough: Take one raw Chebulic Myrobalan (Helilei), hold in mouth and swallow its juice. If taste is lost after recovery, decoct one bowl of Areca Seed (Binglang) soup and take it; taste will return immediately.
Another prescription: Roast Deer Antler Glue (Lujiao Jiao) until half-charred, grind into powder. Take one qianbi, mixed with two qianbi of Ginseng Root (Renshen) powder, one and a half zhan of Vigna mungo Laxmann Bean (Chi) soup, and a little scallion white. Boil for one or two boils, pour into a cup. When coughing occurs, sip three or five mouthfuls, then finish taking it warm.
Treatment for lung vessel rupture with bleeding, sudden continuous hemoptysis: Take a large piece of Hai Xi Gao (likely referring to a specific resin or mineral preparation, literally "Sea Rhinoceros Paste"), roast until charred, coat with water glue, roast again until permeable, then grind into powder. Dissolve in decoction and take. (Note: Original text appears truncated here).
Treatment for cold-cough: Use calcined lime (Duan Shi) ground into powder, formed into pills the size of paulownia seeds using small rice balls. Take thirty pills per dose, washed down with ginger soup.
Treatment for various coughs caused by strain/injury: Use Ginseng Root (Renshen), Realgar (Xionghuang), Orpiment (Cihuang), fried Donkey-hide Gelatin (Ejiao), Acanthopanacis Senticosi Cortex (Wujiapi), and Flower of Winter Jasmine (Kuandonghua), each three qian, ground into powder. First, take a square piece of paper five cun wide, dip it in melted beeswax, lay a layer of prepared mugwort (Ai Ye) on the wax paper, sprinkle the powder evenly over the mugwort, spread mulberry bark white layer thinly and evenly, roll into a tube. Light one end on a lamp, hold the unlit end in the mouth, inhale smoke once, suppress with clear tea.
Treatment for acute cough: Wash White Clam Shell (Bai Xian Qiao) clean, grind into fine powder, take mixed with porridge drink.
Treatment for long-standing cough: Grind Flower of Winter Jasmine (Kuandonghua) into powder, burn and inhale the smoke.
Treatment for persistent cough: Take one handful of dried Floating Duckweed (Fuping), crush, add one zhong of water, boil several times, and take.
Treatment for heat accumulation in lungs causing phlegm-cough and chest/diaphragm blockage/fullness: Remove shell from Trichosanthis Fructus (Gualouzi) and grind separately; wash Pinelliae Rhizoma (Banxia) seven times in water, bake dry, grind into powder. Use one liang of each, mix evenly, make pills the size of paulownia seeds using ginger juice and wheat flour paste. Take fifty pills per dose, washed down with ginger soup after meals.
Treatment for wind-pathogen invasion causing nasal congestion, heavy voice, cough, and rapid breathing: Use raw Licorice Root (Gancao), Ephedrae Herba (Mahuang) with nodes intact, and Apricot Seed (Xingren) with skin and pointed ends intact, in equal parts, finely chopped.
Treatment for wind obstruction, resolving phlegm-saliva, benefiting throat/diaphragm, clearing head/eyes, removing cough, stopping irritability/heat: Calcine Halloysitum (Hanshuishi) until red-hot, remove fire toxicity, process with water flying (shuifeiguo) three liang; grind Pinelliae Rhizoma (Banxia) after washing and baking, and calcined Alum (Baifan) finely, one liang each. Make pills the size of paulownia seeds using paste. Take thirty pills per dose, washed down with ginger soup after meals.
Treatment for phlegm obstruction with excessive saliva and chronic cough: Use half a liang of Tangerine Peel (Jupi) with white part removed, two and a half qian of Pinelliae Rhizoma (Banxia) washed seven times in water, grind into powder. Divide into two doses. For each dose, use one and a half zhan of water, ten slices of fresh ginger, decoct to seventy percent volume, filter residue, take warm.
Treatment for all types of persistent phlegm-cough where other medicines fail, a highly effective family recipe: Take one jin of Poppy Shell (Suke) stir-fried with vinegar, four liang of Dark Plum (Wumei), grind into powder. Take two or three qian per dose, mixed with boiling water for regular use, three times a day after meals.
Treatment for cold-cough: Use four liang of Ephedrae Herba (Mahuang), one liang of Cinnamon Twig (Guizhi), grind into powder, fry together with two qian of beeswax. Take one or two qian per dose, take warm.
Treatment for heat in chest and chronic cough: Take two sheng of Datura Seed (Langdazi) and one hundred fat dates. Add three sheng of water, simmer slowly until water is exhausted, take the dates. Eat one date in the morning, evening, and noon. Removes toxic heat from chest, qi-cough stops naturally.
Treatment for heat-labor steaming cough with spitting blood: Take three he of Rehmanniae Radix (Dihuang) juice, mix evenly with white porridge, eat on an empty stomach.
Treatment for lung disease cough with pus expectoration: Take three liang of Coicis Semen (Yiyiren), grind into powder, add one sheng of water, decoct to three he, add one he of wine, take warm at any time. Highly effective.
Treatment for heat-cough: Crush Purple-flowered Pear (Zihuali) to extract juice and take. Also stops polydipsia.
Treatment for various coughs: Use processed Aconitum Carmichaelii Lateralis Radix Praeparata (Tianxiong) cracked, peeled, and navel removed, ground into powder. Take one zi amount, mixed with warm wine for immediate cure. Do not take too much.
Treatment for lung injury: Decoct Pericarpium Stimulans (Ziwan) in water and take; effective.
Another prescription: Grind Glehniae Radix (Shashen) into powder, decoct in water and take.
Treatment for cough with hoarseness and inability to sleep due to throat sounds: Grind Cynanchi Stauntonii Caulis et Radix (Baiqian) into powder, take two qianbi mixed with warm wine.
Treatment for chronic cough: Stir-fry four liang of Dark Plum (Wumei) flesh, four liang of Poppy Shell (Suke) with top and pith removed stir-fried with honey until yellow, four liang of Tongsheng San, grind into powder. First, chop four liang of Ephedrae Herba (Mahuang) and two qian of Anemarrhenae Rhizoma (Zhimu), decoct in river water until flavor is extracted, clarify, put into porcelain ware, re-simmer into paste, mix with previous powder, form into pills the size of bullet, coat with Cinnabar Gold Leaf (Zhusha Jinbo). Take one pill per dose, chew finely before bed, send down with ginger soup.
Treatment for phlegm-cough: Take one liang of Alum (Baifan), half a liang of Ginseng Root (Renshen), ten去皮 oil-extracted Beans of Castor (Badou), grind into powder, make pills the size of paulownia seeds using vinegar paste, coat with soybean powder.
Another prescription: Use one liang each of Anemarrhenae Rhizoma (Zhimu) and Fritillariae Bulbus (Beimu), twenty去皮 finely ground Beans of Castor (Badou), grind into powder. Take one zi amount per dose, dip three slices of fresh ginger in powder, chew finely before sleep. Bowel movement once next morning; supplement with congee for great effect.
Treatment for various chronic coughs not healing: Use Ginseng Root (Renshen), fried Donkey-hide Gelatin (Ejiao), Flower of Winter Jasmine (Kuandonghua), and Poppy Shell (Suke) soaked in vinegar and stir-fried in equal parts. Take three qian per dose, two Dark Plums (Wumei), one and a half zhan of water, decoct to seventy-five percent volume, take at night.
Treatment for hoarseness: Remove shell from Ricini Semen (Bimazi), stir-fry until cooked, select sweet ones to eat. Multiple doses show effect.
Treatment for cough: Crack Star Aconite Rhizome (Nanxing) and grind into powder. Take one qian per dose, add one zhan of water, seven slices of fresh ginger, decoct to fifty percent volume, take warm. Take on empty stomach, at noon, and before bed. Greatly treats wind-phlegm.
Treatment for chronic cough becoming consumption, lung flaccidity: Use three liang each of Asparagi Radix (Tianmendong), Ophiopogonis Radix (Mendong), Anemarrhenae Rhizoma (Zhimu), and Apricot Seed (Xingren); one and a half liang each of Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Danggui), Rehmanniae Radix (Dihuang), Coptidis Rhizoma (Huanglian), and Donkey-hide Gelatin (Ejiao); one liang each of Poria (Puhuang), Jingmo, Platycodonis Radix (Jiegeng), and Menthae Haplocalycis Herba (Bohe), plus a little Moschus (Shexiang). Process according to standard methods, grind into powder, mix evenly, refine white honey in silver vessel, form into pills the size of bullets. After three meals daily, rinse mouth with thickly decocted mint soup, chew one pill finely, swallow with saliva. Hold one pill in mouth when going to bed, lie on back.
In general, treating cough requires examining whether it is caused by invasion of wind, cold, damp, or heat pathogens; or due to excess joy, anger, worry, or thought; or retention of fluids from eating salty/sour foods; or labor injury from desires/heavy loads. All can cause cough. Treatment should follow the specific pathogen. One must assess deficiency and excess to prescribe medicine correctly, ensuring easy recovery and avoiding errors. Be extremely cautious.