Lung-heat cough is mostly due to phlegm-dampness and depression of the lungs, resulting in the lungs losing declination, the Wei surface feeling the wind-heat evil, and the lung qi upturned and caused by coughing and phlegm. Symptoms include runny nose, cold and cough, cough, dry mouth, sore throat, yellow phlegm and acne. 1. Wind-heat offending the lungs: the patient’s lung qi declares and descends the dysfunction, the qi upward reversal, causing cough; or the human body is subjected to wind-heat evil qi, from the skin, mouth and nose invasion of the human body, invading the lungs, causing cough; or the patient’s mood is not smooth, the liver is depressed and turns to fire (the liver qi does not pass, resulting in the production of fire-heat evil qi), the lungs born of the depression of the heat, into the phlegm into a cough. Patients often have thin yellow tongue coating, floating pulse, thirst, headache, limb pain, yellow snot and other symptoms. 2. Phlegm-dampness and depletion of the lungs: the patient is mostly a dietary irregularities, like cigarettes and alcohol, consume too much fat, sweet and thick food, the spleen and stomach is injured, the spleen’s function of transportation and digestion is out of order, the formation of phlegm-dampness, phlegm-dampness stagnant lungs, cohesion into phlegm, resulting in coughing and phlegm. Coughing with lung heat should be treated with medication under the guidance of a doctor, and should not be self-medicated.