Continuous dry cough is usually caused by dryness of the lungs or yin deficiency (deficiency of the body’s yin, resulting in dryness of the lungs not being nourished), and needs to be analyzed in conjunction with other symptoms to determine whether it is cold or hot. Generally speaking, dry cough with a long duration is usually caused by yin deficiency and dryness of the lungs, and may show signs of heat, which belongs to the category of deficiency heat.
Cold cough includes wind-cold attacking the lungs, cold phlegm obstruction of the lungs and other cold nature of the disease caused by cough, can be manifested as coughing white sputum, itchy pharynx, pale tongue, white moss, pulse tightness and other symptoms. Hot cough refers to wind-heat lungs, phlegm-heat lungs with Yang-heat nature of the disease caused by cough, the patient may cough yellow sputum, cough heavier, sore throat, tongue red, moss yellow, pulse slippery and so on.
The mechanism of continuous dry cough includes dryness of the lungs or yin deficiency and dryness of the lungs.
Dryness offending the lungs: lung fluid depletion, lung loss of moisturizing, purging dereliction of duty. If the onset of late summer and early fall, dry and heat, mostly warm and dry, the couper (pores) open, you see sweating, pulse floating number of symptoms, belonging to the hot cough; if the onset of late fall and early winter, dry and cold, mostly cool and dry, the couper is closed, you see the absence of sweating, pulse floating tightness of symptoms, belonging to the cold cough.
Yin deficiency and lung dryness: insufficient lung yin, loss of moisturizing, or fire burns the lungs, the lungs are not clean, the gas is reversed on the upper. At this time, more dry mouth and throat, emaciation, five heart heat (two hearts and two feet heart fever, and consciously heart and chest heat), hot flashes and night sweats (after going to sleep sweating abnormally, waking up sweating to stop), two zygomatic flushes and other symptoms, manifested as hot cough.
Cold cough and hot cough can be characterized by a continuous dry cough, which is not specific. If you need treatment, you should go to the hospital, under the guidance of the doctor, to distinguish the type of cough, and then use the appropriate drugs for treatment.