Cold cough can be treated by taking San’ao Tang (三拗汤) and Cough Stopper (止嗽散) under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner with the addition or subtraction of traditional Chinese medicines.
Cold cough is a cough caused by wind-cold. The cough is characterized by heavy cough, shortness of breath, itchy throat, sputum that is thin and white in color, often accompanied by nasal congestion, runny nose, headache, limb aches and pains, or fear of cold, fever, and lack of sweating, etc. The Chinese medicine in San’ao Tang includes ephedra, apricot kernel, almonds and other herbs. In San’ao Tang, ephedra, almonds, licorice disperse cold and relieve the surface, and calm the asthma, and in Stop Cough San, thorns, Baiqian, Baibei, Platycodonopsis, Aster, Chenpi promote the lungs, regulate the qi and stop the cough.
If the patient has heavy phlegm-dampness, chest tightness, coughing phlegm sticky and difficult to get out, add half-summer, thick park, poria to dry dampness and resolve phlegm (to remove phlegm by drying dampness); if the wind-cold enters into the body and turns into heat, cough, hoarseness, shortness of breath, shortness of breath (shortness of breath), phlegm viscous and thick, thirst, heartburn, or body heat, stool dryness, add gypsum, Sangbaipi, Scutellariae in order to clear away the internal heat.
For wind-cold cough, take San’ao Tang and Cough Stopper, and avoid using for wind-heat cough. Before and after taking the medicine, attention should be paid to prevent cold and keep warm, the diet should be light, and the medicine should be taken while it is hot. The herbal treatment of wind-cold cough should be carried out under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and individuals should not take medication on their own.