吴鞠通治风温咳嗽桑菊饮证案

某女，春月感冒风温。症见身热不甚，微有汗出，咳嗽声声不已，口微渴，咽痒不痛，舌尖略红，苔薄白，脉浮数而不大。

A woman in spring contracted wind-warmth: fever not severe, with slight sweating, an incessant cough, mild thirst, an itchy but not painful throat, slightly red tongue tip with a thin white coating, and a floating rapid pulse that was not large.

风温犯肺，邪浅病轻，肺失清肃，但咳为主。

Wind-warmth affecting the Lung; the pathogen is shallow and the illness mild, with the Lung failing to depurate and cough as the chief sign.

投桑菊饮辛凉轻剂以宣肺止咳。一剂咳减过半，二剂身凉咳止，不需三剂。

Sang Ju Yin was given as a light acrid-cool dose to diffuse the Lung and arrest cough. One dose reduced the cough by more than half, and with the second the body cooled and the cough stopped — no third dose was needed.