Shortness of breath is a common clinical symptom and can be caused by many diseases. For example, anemia, lung disease, heart disease, depression and so on. There are also many patients for whom the cause cannot be identified. The absence of a cause does not mean that there is no disease, because although there are countless devices to diagnose diseases in modern times. However, it is very difficult to assess the function of the disease and often it can only be determined when the disease is very advanced. For example, early stage of coronary heart disease, early stage of heart failure. Chinese medicine, however, makes up for Western medicine’s understanding of disease by diagnosing it from symptoms and solving it with evidence-based treatment. There are many theories and treatments for shortness of breath. There are two main types of shortness of breath: deficiency of lung qi, spleen qi, kidney qi, and heart qi, and actual evidence of phlegm and stagnation of liver qi, which often manifest in patients with a mixture of deficiency and reality. The cause of the deficiency is labor injury. The five viscera that is the accumulation of labor, that is, the people say excessive fatigue, such as heavy lifting, staying up late, working overtime, overeating, injury refers to the seven emotions, that is, the seven emotions are excessive, the so-called happy sad, sad lungs, anger hurts the liver, fear hurts the kidneys, usually seen laughing over the body is weak, bitter back over the gas to go, scared pants, gas liver pain high blood pressure. Day after day will lead to impaired organ function, become a hundred diseases. Shortness of breath is also just one of the manifestations. Chinese medicine believes that the normal breathing and heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys are related. Diseases in all five organs can cause shortness of breath. How to differentiate? The main thing to look at is the tongue and pulse. 1.Qi deficiency and subsidence The main reason is that Qi deficiency is not enough to absorb The manifestation of the tongue is light and fat or thin, the tongue body is soft, less moss, and the pulse is thin and weak. Treatment is to nourish the heart, lung, spleen and kidney, mainly to tonify the heart, lung, spleen and kidney, Sheng Qi Tang, Sheng Qi Tang, Sheng Pulse San, Jin Gui Kidney Qi Pill, etc. 2, liver depression and Qi stagnation, the main cause is liver Qi stagnation, affecting the lift of spleen qi and lung qi, manifesting a red tongue or petechiae and stasis, white or thick moss, astringent pulse and other solid images, Pei Shen Shu Liver Tang, Yi Yao San, Si Wei San, etc. 3, phlegm and blood stasis, phlegm or blood stasis obstructs the lift of qi, manifesting white or thick moss, astringent or slippery pulse, Gua Gua Bai Han Xia Tang, Blood Mansions and Blood Stasis Tang Addition and reduction