Coughing is a sudden, explosive expiratory movement that occurs due to various irritations of the respiratory tract and helps to clear airway secretions. Chinese medicine considers a cough with sound and no phlegm, a cough without sound and with phlegm, and a cough with sound and phlegm. Coughs can be caused by a variety of factors that cannot be treated equally, such as colds, throat diseases, tracheobronchial diseases, lung diseases, etc. They can be acute or chronic, and can be mild or severe. When do you cough every day? What are the triggering factors, such as cold air, change of position, conversation, eating or drinking, etc.? Is it accompanied by chest pain, shortness of breath, hoarseness, dizziness or other symptoms? Can you cough up sputum? Chinese medicine has good results in treating cough, and is generally divided into the following types of treatment Wind-cold cough, mainly manifested as coughing, fear of cold, headache, clear runny nose and white sputum, can be treated with Tong Xuan Li Lung Pill. The soup can be made with Chen Pi 10g, Almond 10g, Wu Wei Zi 10g, Fa Han Xia 10g, Ma Huang 6g, Sang Bai Pi 10g, Qing Pi 10g, Perilla Leaf 10g, Qian Hu 10g, Radix Platycodon 6g, Licorice 6g. Wind-heat cough, mainly manifested as cough, fever, thick yellow phlegm, difficulty in coughing, phlegm does not come out easily, thirst, dry and painful throat, yellow nasal discharge, etc. The Chinese herbal medicine should be Antelope Qing Lung Pill, and the soup can be used as follows: Peppermint 6g, Mulberry Leaf 10g, Scutellaria Baicalensis 10g, Qian Hu 10g, Chrysanthemum 10g, Forsythia 10g, Radix Platycodon 6g, Licorice 6g, Loquat Leaf 12g, Zhe Bei Mu 10g. For dry lung cough, which mainly manifests as a dry cough without sputum or little sputum, the herbal remedy can be Nourishing Yin and Clearing Lung Pill. The formula uses 15 grams of Radix Rehmanniae, 10 grams of Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, 10 grams of Madonnas, 10 grams of Zhaobei Mu, 10 grams of Paeonia lactiflora, 10 grams of Mudanpi, 6 grams of Peppermint and 6 grams of Licorice. For cough with lung heat, mainly manifested as sticky and yellow sputum that is not easily coughable, Chinese herbal medicine can be taken to relieve cough and orange red pill. The soup can be made with 10 grams of Radix Pseudostellariae, 10 grams of Bile South Star, 10 grams of Orange Red, 10 grams of Citrus Aurantium, 10 grams of Almond, 10 grams of Scutellariae, 12 grams of Poria, and 15 grams of Guadua. Lung deficiency cough, mainly manifested as a prolonged cough with thin sputum and asthma, can be divided into lung yin deficiency and lung qi yin. For the former, the symptoms include weakness, dullness and lazy speech, using 10 grams of Radix Codonopsis, 10 grams of Atractylodes Macrocephala, 10 grams of Poria, 10 grams of Radix Panax, 10 grams of Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, 10 grams of Schisandra Chinensis, 10 grams of Cuscutae and 10 grams of Yam. In the latter case, dryness of the throat and tongue, hot flashes and night sweats can be treated with Sha Shen 10 grams, Mai Dong 10 grams, Di Bark 12 grams, Sang Bai Pi 10 grams, Prince Ginseng 15 grams, Dendrobium 10 grams, Almond 10 grams, Xuan Shen 10 grams, Wu Wei Zi 10 grams, Bai Bei 10 grams and Licorice 6 grams. For cough with phlegm and dampness, the main manifestation is that the phlegm is easy to be coughing out, and the amount is white and thin. The ready-made medicine can be used as Er Chen Wan, and the soup can be used as Chen Pi 10 grams, Han Xia 10 grams, Fu Ling 12 grams, Licorice 6 grams, Almond 10 grams, Su Zi 10 grams, Mandarin 6 grams, Lycopodium 12 grams, Bile Star 12 grams, Bai Qian 10 grams, Zhan Dong Hua 12 grams.