Liver fire offends the lungs because Chinese medicine compares our five organs to the five elements: wood, fire, earth, gold, water, liver, heart, spleen, lungs and kidneys. Wood in the five elements is for our liver, and gold corresponds to our lungs. Liver fire offending the lungs is equivalent to wood fire punishing gold, which means that too much wood fire will melt this metal away. For the five elements, if our liver fire is too strong, it will burn our lungs and make our lungs dry, which will lead to the symptoms of Liver-Fire Offending the Lungs, such as dryness, dry cough, lack of phlegm, hoarseness, etc. Generally speaking, Liver-Fire Offending the Lungs is commonly seen in patients who have coughs that are not stopping after they have suffered from great anger and injury to the liver.