WESTERN CLASSIFICATION of the MATERIA MEDICA
3L. ANTITUSSIVE
Bechica, Stop Cough
These are medicines which treat Cough. They are broadly classed as either Warm or Cold, being used for Cold and Hot Coughs respectively. Warm medicines help ‘digest’ cold, thick and raw Phlegm while Cold medicines cool and thicken hot, sharp, thin Phlegm.
i. Warming Anti-tussives
These are attenuating Anti-tussives which warm, make thin and facilitate expectoration; used for Cold and Thick Phlegm.
ii. Cooling Anti-tussives
These are incrassating Anti-tussives which cool, thicken, soothe and moisten; used for Hot and Thin Phlegm.
Warming Compounds
| Decoction of Maidenhair | Syrup of Horehound |
| Syrup of Hyssop (Mesue) | Syrup of Coltsfoot |
| Syrup of Maidenhair | Syrup of Myrrh |
| Syrup of Licorice | Syrup of Vinegar |
| Simple Oxymel | Diatragacanth Calidi |
| Diaireos | Oxymel of Squill |
| Diazingiber | Sanum and Expertum |
| Dianisum | Diacalamintum |
| Diacyminum | Diatrion Pipereon |
| Diaolibanum | Diahyssopi |
| Lohoch of Fox Lungs | Diasulphur |
| Lohoch of Pine nuts | Diathamaron Magna (Nicholas) |
| Lohoch of Licorice | Lohoch of Coltsfoot |
| Lohoch of Squill | Philonium Romanum |
| Pills of Storax | Troches of Arsenic |
| Mithridate | Theriac |
Cooling Compounds
| Syrup of Licorice | Syrup of Violet |
| Syrup of Water Lily | Syrup of White Poppy |
| Syrup of Jujubes | Syrup of Comfrey & Plantain |
| Syrup of Marshmallow | Syrup of Snails |
| Syrup of Mucilages | Sugar Penids |
| Conserve of Rose | Diapenidium |
| Diatragacanth Frigidum | Diapapaver |
| Diacodium | Lohoch of Marshmallow |
| Lohoch of Poppy | Lohoch of Spodium |
| Troches of Barberry | Troches of Stella |
| Pil. Bechia | Pills of Poppy |
