Excessive Lung Fire is known as Lung Heat in Chinese medicine. Symptoms of Lung Heat do not discriminate between genders, both men and women with Lung Heat may show symptoms such as dry mouth, fever, cough, sore throat, yellow urine, dry stools, and red urine.
Lung fever is mostly caused by external evils invading the lung meridians or lung organs. Common symptoms of Lung Heat in men and women include fever, dry mouth and thirst, craving for cold drinks, repeated coughing, coughing up thick and sticky sputum, etc. It is often accompanied by red, swollen and painful throat, short and red urine (small amount of urine with dark yellow color), and constipation of stools.
Common types of lung heat in Chinese medicine include wind-heat against the lungs (wind-heat evils invading the lungs), dryness against the lungs, phlegm-heat congestion of the lungs, liver-fire against the lungs, and yin-deficiency lung-heat, etc., with variations in specific clinical manifestations.
People with lung heat should consult a doctor in a timely manner and be treated under the guidance of a physician, and should not use medication on their own.