I. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment
Coughs are usually divided into seven types of coughs: external coughs (wind-cold attacking the lung, wind-heat offending the lung, wind-dry injuring the lung) and internal coughs (phlegm-dampness containing the lung, phlegm-heat stagnating the lung, liver-fire offending the lung, and lung-yin deficiency).
1. Wind-cold attacks the lung. Cough with thin white sputum and itchy throat, often accompanied by nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing, cold headache, aching limbs, thin white tongue coating and floating tight pulse. Treatment is to disperse wind and cold, promote the lung and relieve cough. Tong Xuan Li Lung Pill can be used. Avoid eating cold and greasy food. Patients with hypertension, heart disease and diabetes are forbidden to take it.
2. Wind-heat offending the lung. Cough with coarse and hyperactive cough, thick yellow sputum, unpleasant sputum, accompanied by fever and bad wind, headache and sweating, dry throat and thirst, yellow runny nose, red tongue with thin yellow coating and floating pulse. Treatment is to remove wind and heat, promote the lung and stop cough. Chuanbei cough relief lotion and snake bile and Chuanbei liquid can be used. Cold cough, stomach cold vomiting and diabetic patients are prohibited to take.
3, wind dry lung injury. The dry climate in autumn and winter injures the lung, mainly manifested as dry cough without sputum, or sputum sticky and difficult to get out, blood in the sputum, dry nose and throat, body heat and thirst, red tongue, thin yellow and dry coating, thin pulse, etc.. The treatment is to clear heat and moisten dryness, produce fluid to stop cough. Can use autumn pear paste. Avoid eating spicy and dry, fatty and too cold products, it is advisable to quit smoking.
4.Phlegm-heat stagnant lung. Cough and asthma, phlegm is yellow and sticky, not easy to cough, mouth and nose heat, bitter mouth and dry throat, sore throat, chest pain and tightness, yellow tongue coating, pulse string, etc. Treatment is to clear the lung and remove fire, resolve phlegm and stop cough. Clear Qi and Phlegm Pill can be used.
5.Phlegm and dampness in the lung. Coughing with phlegm, white and sticky phlegm, coughing up when the phlegm comes out, accompanied by distension and stuffiness in the chest and epigastrium, fatigue, heavy and sleepy body, reduced diet, nausea and vomiting, loose stools, white and greasy tongue coating, moist and slippery pulse, etc. Treatment is to strengthen the spleen and dry dampness, resolve phlegm and stop cough. Can be used Qian Jin Hua Phlegm Pill, Orange Red Pill, etc.
6.Liver fire offends the lung. Cough with red face, dry throat and bitter mouth, phlegm stagnating in the throat, coughing but not coughing, small amount of sticky quality or like flocculent strips, chest and hypochondriacal pain, coughing with pain, symptoms fluctuating with emotion, red tongue, thin yellow coating and less fluid, and string pulse. Treatment is to clear the lung and diarrhea the liver, smooth the Qi and lower the fire. The treatment is to clear the lung and diarrhea of the liver, smooth the Qi and lower the fire. Pay attention to maintain a relaxed mood.
7.Depletion of lung yin. Prolonged cough, dry cough with little sputum or blood in the sputum, accompanied by physical wasting, dry mouth and throat, hoarseness, hot flushes and night sweats, vague pain in the chest, red tongue with little coating, thin pulse, etc. Treatment is to nourish Yin and moisten the lung, resolve phlegm and stop cough. Baihegujin Pill can be used.
If the cough persists for a long time, with little white sputum and thin sputum, accompanied by asthma, low voice, fatigue and fear of wind, palpitations with spontaneous sweating, pale face, lack of warmth in the hands and feet, susceptibility to colds, pale tongue with thin white coating, weak pulse, etc., the treatment is to nourish the lung and benefit the qi, resolve phlegm and stop cough. Ginseng Pao Lung Pill and Lung Tonic Pill can be used.
II. Points to note
1. Pay attention to the distinction between external sensation and internal injury. External cough is mostly a new disease with a rapid onset and short duration, often occurring suddenly after a change in weather and cold, and mostly with real evidence. Internal injury coughs are mostly long-standing, with a slow onset, often recurrent, and a long duration.
2. Pay attention to the sound of the cough and the duration of the attack. A high cough is a real disease, while a low cough is a deficiency. If the cough is hoarse and the illness is acute but short, it is an external cough, while if the illness is slow and long, it is a deficiency. If the cough is aggravated in the morning, with a heavy cough and reduced phlegm, it is mostly a phlegm-damp or phlegm-heat cough; if the cough is aggravated in the afternoon or if there is a single cough at night with a slight short cough, it is mostly a dry lung and yin deficiency; if the cough is aggravated at night and there is little air or asthma, it is a deficiency cold disease with a long cough causing asthma.
3. Pay attention to the color, nature and quantity of phlegm. Those with little sputum or dry cough without sputum mostly belong to dry heat or yin deficiency; those with more sputum often belong to phlegm dampness, phlegm heat or deficiency cold. Those with white and thin sputum belong to wind and cold. Those with white and thick phlegm belong to dampness; those with yellow and sticky phlegm belong to heat.
The focus of prevention
In improving the body’s external function, enhance the skin and hair coup against cold and disease. If you have a cold, promptly consult and treat. If you have a long cough and sweating, you can take Yu Ping Feng San as appropriate. The moxibustion (Sanfu moxibustion, Sanjiu moxibustion) is a good prevention method.
To prevent coughing, first of all, you should pay attention to climate change, prevent cold and keep warm, and your diet should not be sweet, fatty, spicy or too salty. Appropriate participation in physical exercise to enhance physical fitness, improve the ability to resist disease. For those who are prone to catching a cold, it is advisable to cooperate with anti-cold health exercises, facial massage at Yingxiang points and nighttime moxibustion at the third mile of the foot.
For external coughs, if systemic symptoms such as fever are obvious, you should rest appropriately. If you have a chronic and recurrent cough, you should pay special attention to your diet and eat pears, lilies, water chestnuts, loquats, etc. according to your condition. Pay attention to the combination of work and rest. During the remission period, we should adhere to the principle of “slowing down is the cure” and supplement the deficiency in order to cure the root cause.
Many coughs nowadays are a mixture of cold and heat, deficiency and reality.
Therefore, in general, you should try to find an experienced herbalist to avoid delaying the condition.
V. Do not abuse antibiotics on your own