When distinguishing bronchial inflammatory coughs it is important to determine the length of time the patient has had the disease and, depending on the length of time, whether the cough is subacute, acute, or chronic. If it is an acute cough, it may be a cough caused by bronchitis due to a cold and requires cold medicine and anti-inflammatory drugs. If it is a viral cold, antiviral treatment is required. If it is a subacute cough it could be bronchitis caused by acute pneumonia or acute sinusitis, and you can take or inject some antibiotics, more commonly cephalosporin. If the cough is chronic, it needs to be identified if there is tuberculosis, emphysema, lung cancer, or allergic bronchitis, and a chest X-ray is needed to confirm the diagnosis of the chronic disease. The cough caused by bronchitis can be eradicated only after treating the chronic disease. For bronchitis cough caused by tuberculosis or cancer, surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy may be required. In most cases, bronchitis is caused by a cold that has not yet healed, so it is only necessary to take amoxicillin or levofloxacin, together with phlegm and cough suppressants. For patients who do not recover from cough, you can use herbal dietary therapy, such as steamed pears with Sichuan scallops, to achieve a very good therapeutic effect.