Daurian Rhododendron Oil

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Stops cough and transforms phlegm - Man Shan Hong You is the concentrated volatile-oil preparation made from Man Shan Hong leaves and is used for productive cough with bronchial irritation.
• Benefits acute and chronic bronchitis - modern Chinese materia medica and pharmacopoeial use centers on bronchitic cough rather than on broad general herbal indications.
• Opens constrained Lung Qi - the penetrating aromatic oil is used when sticky phlegm and cough obstruction are difficult to clear with milder preparations.

Secondary Actions

• This record represents the distilled oil, not the crude leaf, so it belongs more to a standardized medicinal preparation tradition than to ordinary decoction use.
• Compared with the leaf, Man Shan Hong You is narrower in indication but more concentrated in delivery.

Classic Formulas

• Man Shan Hong You capsules or pills - the standard finished-product form for acute and chronic bronchitic cough.
• Man Shan Hong You derived from steam-distilled leaf preparations - a preparation-based respiratory approach rather than a broad classical decoction tradition.
• Adjunct use with the crude Man Shan Hong leaf tradition - the oil preparation preserves the same cough-phlegm treatment direction in more concentrated form.

Classical References

• Chinese pharmacopoeial usage describes Man Shan Hong You as the volatile oil obtained by steam distillation of Rhododendron dauricum leaves and used for cough and expectoration.
• The preparation is aimed mainly at acute and chronic bronchitis rather than at the wider folk indications sometimes attached to the leaf herb itself.
• PREPARATION NOTE: this file intentionally distinguishes the oil from herb #303 because the distilled oil is a separate medicinal product with a narrower respiratory focus.