Cough with phlegm tongue coating white mostly belongs to the wind-cold, wind-heat patients tongue coating mostly manifested as thin yellow or yellow thick.
Wind-cold is mainly due to external wind-cold, the tongue coating is mainly manifested as a pale white tongue coating, tongue body light red, there will also be a cough, coughing, coughing high, coughing white sticky sputum, fever light, cold (cold) heavy, nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing, itchy pharynx, headache, pulse floating tight and other symptoms. It is often treated with pungent and warm methods to relieve the symptoms.
Wind-heat is caused by external wind-heat, the tongue coating is mainly yellowish, slightly red tongue, and there will also be cough, cough coarse or hoarse cough, cough and spit yellow phlegm, yellow snot, headache, sweating, floating pulse and other symptoms. It is often treated with pungent and cool methods to relieve the symptoms.
If the patient has a cough with phlegm and white tongue, should promptly go to the hospital, after the professional doctor for identification, and comply with the doctor’s instructions for active treatment.