12 Formulas for Cough

The Purpose of our '12 Formulas' Pages are to illustrate
various formulas used to treat a specific condition on one page. 
This can be useful to help Practitioners develop their own Formulas.

Emplastic Pills of Galen
  Licorice juice
  Gum Arabic
  Tragacanth
1 oz.

½ oz. each
Form pills with Sapa.

Powder for Cough of Mesue
  Sweet Almond
  Sugar
  Fennel seed

2 oz. each
1 oz.
Stop Cough, relieves Chest pain. (Mesue)

Powder for Cough
  Ginger
  Elecampane
  Licorice               
  Aniseed
  Sugar Candy
8 pennyweight
16 pennyweight
1 oz.
2 oz.
3 oz.
(An Hospital for the Diseased, gathered by T.C., 1579)

Powder for Cough
  Aniseed
  Fennel
  Maidenhair           
  Cinnamon
  Mastic


half dram each

1 dram each

Powder for Dry Cough
  Poppy seed
  Starch
  Tragacanth
  Gum Arabic
  Gourd seed
  Quince seed
10 drams


4 drams each

3 drams each
Powder. Dose: half–1 dram. (Wirtzung)

Powder for Lung Disease and All Cough
  Radish seed
  Pyrethrum
  Elecampane
  Orris
  Pepper




equal parts
Powder.

Decoction for Cough & Asthma of Galen
  Hyssop
  Basil
  Maidenhair
  Horehound
  Licorice




6 drams each
Decoct down to half, strain and add Honey.
Used for Cough, Asthma, Wheezing.
Famous Pills for Cough
  Spikenard
  Ginger
  Sage seed fried
  Long Pepper
  Sugar Penids

2 drams each
14 drams
12 drams
3 drams
Form Pills with Sage Juice. (Medicamentorum Opus, Nicolai Myrepsus 1625)

Hospital Pills for Coughs
  Licorice rob
  Starch
  Tragacanth
  Sweet Almonds
  Gum Arabic
  White Sugar Candy




3 drams ea.
5 drams
Form pills the size of Chickpeas with Quince seed mucilage. (Dispensatory of Ibn at Tilmid)

Lohoch of Fenugreek
  Linseed
  Fenugreek
  Sweet Almond
  Tragacanth
  Licorice
  peeled Pine nut
  peeled Bitter Almonds
  Wheat Starch
  Gum Arabic
15 drams

4 drams each





2 drams each
Powder and mix with boiled Wine.

Troches for Cough
  Fennel seed
  Celery seed
  Licorice juice
  Maidenhair
  Sweet Almond




equal parts
Form Troches. Dose: half–1 dram. (Wirtzung)

Pectoral Decoction
  Raisins               
  Sebestens
  Jujubes
  Dates
  Barley
  Licorice
  Maidenhair           
  Hyssop
1 oz.

15 of each
6
1 oz.
½ oz.
½ handful
2 drams
Decoct. Used for Cough, Asthma and Lung disease. (Augustana)