Breathing exercises and lung clearing treatment for pulmonary fibrosis

  With the current level of scientific development, there is no special drug or shortcut to treat pulmonary fibrosis, but it is not impossible to use. In addition to improving lung function and prolonging survival time, Chinese medicine’s evidence-based treatment can also adjust the imbalance of the whole body, enhance the immunity of the body and improve the quality of life due to the characteristics of holistic evidence-based Chinese medicine. This is what I often call “adjusting the prescription”. Adjusting the prescription allows the medicine to follow up the lesion, improves the accuracy of treatment, and minimizes the discomfort of the medicine and the adverse effects of the medicine on the liver, kidney and digestive tract.  Breathing exercises need a long time to practice, at first do not think it is too difficult, if not quite understand first relaxed to do deep breathing is good, you can first practice at night before going to bed lying flat on the bed, the whole body relaxed slowly deepen the strength of breathing, can gradually fall asleep that do a good job. Feel good to do it can go outdoors during the day to do, breathing exercises practice is the gas, to pick up Yang Qi, so try to do during the day, three times a day, once 15 minutes, to adhere to ah. I will know if the breathing exercises are done properly according to the lung function performance of the patient, and gradually adjust according to the evolution of the disease. If you think of exercise as too complicated, too much pursuit of posture and effect may be counterproductive.  The sputum production phase of pulmonary fibrosis is a very difficult treatment process, but it is related to the effectiveness of subsequent treatment. Since this disease has pathological processes such as lung impotence and lung failure in TCM, the general treatment mostly uses tonics and astringents, which will have a certain effect of stopping cough and increasing strength, that is, improving symptoms, which is a relatively conservative treatment method that has been used for a long time. However, I have found that in order to further improve lung function, to get the tonics in place and to better prevent infection, the diseased lungs must be cleared, which is especially important and certainly very difficult in patients with pulmonary fibrosis.  Lung impotence, figuratively speaking, is like the withering of leaves in autumn, dry, so the secretions discharged from the interstitial space of the lungs are already sticky, and after a longer period of “tonicity”, they are then discharged from the most distal alveoli through multiple bronchial layers, with imaginable effort. Patients who come to my clinic know that I am slow to see patients, because I have given a long time to understand these patients who are first diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, and that is because time is limited and inevitably something is missed, so I am writing here today to answer your question, so that patients who can come here can see. Every time I come to the clinic to adjust the prescription, I am trying my best to help the patient reach the phlegm elimination phase as soon as possible, but once they enter the next tonic phase of treatment, the patient will feel better strength. To use an analogy, the early treatment is like unloading a burden, and the later treatment is to replenish physical strength, both of which help the condition to get better. Of course, I will consider the patient’s condition, and if I really can not adhere to the treatment of the lung clearing period, I will usually consider both attack and supplementation, but the course of treatment will be prolonged, which is why the patient must come in person for the pre-conditioning. Most of my patients who are satisfied with their lung function recovery or even finished the treatment and stopped the medication have a complete lung clearing treatment.