Bronchitis belongs to the category of cough and so on in Chinese medicine. Taking Chinese medicine but coughing more, may be due to the disease is still in progress, may also be the use of drugs to resolve phlegm, phlegm stimulation of the airway, and may be the use of the drug is not the right evidence led to.
1. Progress of the disease: If the patient’s condition is aggressive, the use of drugs can only delay the aggravation of the disease, can not stop the development of the disease, not to mention the cure, then the patient will take traditional Chinese medicine, but coughing more severe performance.
2. Phlegm stimulation: If the patient takes Chinese medicine with the effect of phlegm, phlegm is diluted after phlegm, the amount of phlegm increases, then the increase of phlegm will stimulate the airway, leading to the patient to take Chinese medicine instead of coughing more severe performance.
3. Drugs are not the right evidence: Chinese medicine will cough is divided into wind-heat evidence, wind-cold evidence, phlegm-heat evidence and so on a variety of evidence, if the treatment of the use of traditional Chinese medicine is not the right evidence, then there will be the performance of taking traditional Chinese medicine instead of coughing more severe.
For example, if wind-cold attacks the lungs, add or subtract San’ao Tang and Cough Stopper, if wind-heat offends the lungs, add or subtract Sang Ju Drink, if phlegm-heat depletes the lungs, add or subtract Qing Jin Hua Phlegm Tang, and if dry-heat injures the lungs, add or subtract Sang Xing Tang. The adverse reactions of the above prescriptions are not clear.
In addition to the above factors, other reasons can also lead to bronchitis take Chinese medicine but cough more severe manifestations, it is recommended to consult a doctor in a timely manner to identify the causes and ask the doctor to deal with it.