Emphysema can be categorized as “lung distension” in Chinese medicine, and its treatment should be based on the principle of “treating the symptom when it is urgent, and treating the root cause when it is slow”, with clinical prescriptions such as Nourishing Yin and Clearing Lungs Soup and Tonifying the Lungs and Kidneys Soup. 1. Commonly used herbs include Psidium guajava, Phellodendron Bidentata, Gallus gallus, Radix et Rhizoma Dioscoreae, etc. These herbs guide phlegm and turbidity downward, and are effective in clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, and relieving the chest to disperse knots, so as to improve the symptoms of emphysema, and the representative formulas include Nourishing Yin and Clearing Lung Soup. The representative formula is Nourishing Yin and Clearing Lung Soup, in which Psidium guajava can clear away heat and dissolve phlegm, broaden the chest and regulate qi, while Fructus Phellodendron has the effect of lowering the fire in the lungs, relieving cough and moistening the lungs. 2. Emphysema is related to “stasis due to deficiency”, so while clearing the lung and resolving phlegm (removing lung heat and dissolving phlegm), it is equally important to replenish the deficiency and regulate stasis, with representative formulas such as Lung Replenishing and Kidney Nourishing Soup, and Activating Blood and Removing Blood Stasis Soup. Poria and other herbs can nourish the lungs, strengthen the spleen and kidneys, and support the uprightness of the body. Combined, these herbs can nourish the lungs and vital energy, warm the kidneys and yang (warming and nourishing the yang qi of the kidneys), dissolve phlegm and clear away heat, and relieve cough and wheezing (stopping the cough and calming the wheezing). All of the above remedies are Chinese herbal remedies for emphysema and should be used in accordance with doctor’s instructions. It is not recommended that patients buy and take them on their own to avoid serious adverse reactions.