Symptoms of Pediatric Cough

Cough is a common symptom of respiratory diseases, mostly secondary to colds, often due to climate change. It occurs in winter and spring. Modern medicine believes that coughing is a reflex movement of respiratory defense, which is a protective response of the body. A variety of diseases such as upper respiratory tract infection, pneumonia, whooping cough, etc. can cause cough. Chinese medicine divides cough into two categories: exogenous and internal injuries. Exogenous cough is mostly triggered by wind, wind is the longest of all diseases, often combined with cold, heat, dryness, wetness, through the skin or mouth and nose invasion of the lung meridian, so that the lung qi is not declared and issued as a cough. Internal injury cough is mostly caused by untreated or untreated external cough, or weak lungs, or spleen and kidney disease involving the lungs. External cough is not cured, the evil transmission of people into the heat, heat burning Jin refining fluid for phlegm, phlegm and heat mutual knot, blocked in the lungs, hair for phlegm heat cough. Children’s spleen and stomach is weak, easy for dietary injury, but also because of lung disease and spleen, so that the spleen is not healthy transportation, phlegm and dampness born, up storage in the lungs, hair for phlegm and dampness cough. Cough for a long time, the disease and kidney, kidney deficiency can not take gas and affect the distribution of fluids, lung gas lift, so the lung and kidney can be seen in the two organs of the evidence of deficiency. The general prognosis of this disease is good, if the treatment is not appropriate, or lost treatment, mistreatment is difficult to cure the disease. [Clinical manifestations] (1) external cough: cough with phlegm, nasal congestion, runny nose, cold, fever, headache; thin moss, floating pulse. If the external wind-cold, can also see phlegm, snot thin white color, cold, fever light, no sweat, thin white moss. If the cough is due to wind-heat, it may be accompanied by yellow and thick sputum and snot, light chill, heavy fever, slight sweating, thirst, sore throat; thin yellow moss, floating pulse. (2) internal cough: prolonged cough, body with a slight fever, or dry cough with little sputum, or cough with much sputum, white face, spontaneous or night sweating, loss of appetite, fatigue, emaciation; tongue pale moss white or red tongue with little moss, pulse is fine. [Massage treatment] (1) Treatment principle: promote the lung to stop cough. If the external wind-cold, when the wind disperses the cold; if the external wind-heat, when the heat relief. If the cough is caused by internal injuries, it is advisable to strengthen the spleen and nourish the lungs, nourish the yin and benefit the kidneys. (2) therapeutic steps ① clearing the lung meridian: with the thumb ribbed surface of the force, from the ring finger of the child’s palm surface of the fingerprints of the end of the fingerprints to the tip of the finger 200 times. ② transport the eight trigrams: with the thumb side of the child’s palm in the eight trigrams points with clockwise transport 100 times. ③ press and knead the day protruding: with the middle finger end of press and knead the upper fossa of the sternum right in the middle 50 times, when exerting force along the sternum inside the bottom. ④Push the danzhong: use the ribbed surface of the two thumbs to push from the center of the point to the two sides to the nipple 100 times. ⑤ Pressing and kneading the breast side and breast root: press and knead the breast side and breast root points 50 times each with the tip of middle finger. (6) Pressing and kneading the Lung Yu: Press and knead the Lung Yu point on the back 100 times with the tip of the middle finger. (7) If you have wind-cold (1) open the door of heaven: with the child lying on his back, use both thumbs to push upward from the center of the eyebrow to the hairline of the forehead 50 times. b. Push the kan-gong: use both thumbs to push upward from the center of the eyebrow to the tip of the eyebrow on both sides 50 times. c. Knead the high bone behind the ear: use the two thumbs or the end of the middle finger to knead the back of the ear of the child to enter the hairline, and the high bone of the posterior edge of the mastoid process in the lower concave depression 50 times. d. Push the three passes: use the thumbs or the index and middle fingers to push up the high bone along the forearms, and then push the three passes. d. Push the three passes: with the thumb or index, middle fingers, ribbed surface effort, along the radial side of the forearm, from the transverse carpal stripe to the transverse elbow stripe 200 times. e. Knead the sun: with both hands of the end of the middle finger were kneaded bilateral solar plexus points 50 times. f. Pinching and kneading the two doors: with both hands of the thumb or forefinger pinching and kneading the back of the palm of the child’s forefinger and the middle finger, and the middle finger and the intersection of the root of the ring finger 100 times. 8 If the wind heat is felt externally a. Open the door of the sky: the child supine, the operator with the thumbs of the two hands of the ribbed surface of the heart of the eyebrow from the alternately upwards Push the forehead to the hairline 50 times. b. Push the Kangu: with both thumbs ribbed surface from the center of the eyebrows to the tips of the eyebrows on both sides of the 50 times. c. Rub the sun: with the thumb or the middle finger end of the thumb or the middle finger to rub the tips of the eyebrows after the solar plexus points 50 times. d. Knead the back of the ear high bone: with the two thumbs or the middle finger end of the effort to knead the child behind the ear into the hairline, the posterior edge of the mastoid process in the high bone under the depression 50 times. e. Clearing the water of the Tianhe River: with the thumb or the food, the middle and middle two fingers ribbed surface of the effort along the The middle of the forearm, from the transverse stripe of the wrist to the transverse stripe of the elbow 300 times. f. Retreating the six internal organs: with the thumb or the food, the middle two fingers of the ribbed surface of the force, along the ulnar side of the forearm, from the transverse stripe of the elbow to the transverse stripe of the wrist 300 times. 9 if internal injuries and cough a. Tonic spleen meridian: with the thumb ribbed surface force, in the pediatric thumb of the ribbed surface of the rotary push 300 times. b. Tonic lung meridian: with the thumb ribbed surface force, in the pediatric ring finger ribbed surface of the rotary push 200 times. c. Tonic kidney meridian: with the thumb ribbed surface force, in the pediatric pinky’s ribbed surface of the rotary push 300 times. d. Push the three passes: with the thumb or the thumb, food, middle and two fingers ribbed surface force, along the radial side of the forearm, from the wrist to push to the elbow 200 times. e. Push the three passes: with the thumb or food, middle and two fingers ribbed surface force, along the radial side of the forearm, from the wrist to push to the elbow 200 times. Push to the elbow 200 times. e. Knead two horses: Knead the back of the hand of the child with the thumb end of the ring finger and the little finger behind the metacarpophalangeal joints of the depression for 100 times. f. Knead the Fenglong acupoints: with the thumb ribbed surface of the effort in the child Fenglong acupoints in the circular rotation kneading for 1 minute. g. Pinch the spine: first in the back of the child from the top down to push and moisten for 2-3 times, and then pinch with the chiropractic method of the small children from the sacrococcygeal area to the large vertebrae points, repeated pinch 3-5 times. h. Pinch the spine: first in the back of the child from the top down to the large vertebrae points, repeat pinching. (3) Course of treatment: massage 1~2 times a day, 20 minutes each time, until the disease is cured. (1) Strengthen the body’s cold-resistant exercise to enhance the ability to resist disease. (2) Pay attention to climate change, prevent cold, especially in the fall and winter seasons, pay attention to the chest and abdomen to keep warm. (3) After the disease proper rest, drink more water, can not be strong into the greasy food. (4) Pay attention to keep indoor air circulation, avoid gas, dust, smoke, oil and other stimuli.