Lung fever in children can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine after diagnosis and treatment. Wind-heat can be treated with Sang Ju Drink, dryness can be treated with Sang Xing Tang, phlegm-heat can be treated with Qing Jin Hua Phlegm Tang, and yin deficiency can be treated with Sha Shen Maidong Tang. Pears, loquats and other foods that clear heat and moisturize dryness can also be consumed daily.
1. Wind-heat lung syndrome: manifested as cough, fever, thirst, sore throat and other symptoms. The treatment should be to remove the wind and clear the heat to promote the lungs, can use the mulberry and chrysanthemum drink treatment, traditional Chinese medicine has mulberry leaves, forsythia, chrysanthemum, almonds and so on.
2. Dryness and evil spirits in the lungs: dry cough with little sputum or blood in the sputum, chest pain, dryness of the mouth, lips and nose, fever, and slight fear of the wind, etc. The treatment should clear the wind and moisten the lungs. The treatment should be wind, clear the lungs and moisturize the dryness, using Mulberry and Apricot Soup, with traditional Chinese medicines such as mulberry leaves, almonds, and elephant shellfish.
3. Phlegm-heat congestion of the lungs: manifested as cough, sputum yellow amount, wheezing, fever, thirst, constipation, urine amount of yellow, etc.. Treatment should be clearing heat and resolving phlegm, using Qing Jin Hua Phlegm Tang, with Chinese herbs such as Gallus gallus, Semixia, Chen Pi, Scutellaria, and so on.
4. Yin deficiency and lung-heat syndrome: hemoptysis or blood in sputum, low-grade fever, red cheekbones, afternoon fever, dry throat, etc. The treatment should nourish Yin and moisten the lung. Treatment should nourish yin and moisten the lungs, using Sha Shen Mai Dong Tang, Chinese herbs include Sha Shen, Mai Dong, Yu Zhu and so on.
The presence of lung heat in children should be regulated by the doctor’s evidence-based guidance to avoid aggravation of the condition.