Chinese herbal remedies for bronchial asthma

Bronchial asthma belongs to the category of Chinese medicine “croup”, Chinese medicine treatment according to different types of evidence to choose different Chinese medicine prescription, such as cold croup with Sagan Ephedra Soup or Xiaoqinglong Soup, hot croup with fixed wheezing soup or more maidservant plus half-summertime soup, cold packet of hot croup with the Qinglong Soup and so on. 1. Cold croup: throat croup like water chicken sound, each other urgent, coughing slightly, sputum less clucking and spitting unpleasant, white foam, cold or cold easy to send. The treatment should promote lung dispersal of cold, phlegm and asthma, can be used to shoot dry ephedra soup or small blue dragon soup treatment. 2. Heat croup: phlegm in the throat like roar, wheezing and gasping, chest high and coarsening, choking and coughing, phlegm yellow, sticky and thick, bitter mouth and thirst, occurring in summer. Treatment should be clearing heat and lung, phlegm asthma, can use the asthma soup or maidservant plus half-summer soup. 3. Cold-heat croup: croup in the throat, chest and diaphragm tightness (chest, stomach and wrist swelling and tightness), shortness of breath, phlegm viscous yellow or yellow-white mixed, irritability, fever, fear of cold, no sweat, body pain. The treatment is to relieve the surface and disperse the cold (to remove the cold from the surface of the muscle), and clear away the phlegm and heat, which can be done by using Da Qing Long Tang. 4. Wind-phlegm croup syndrome: phlegm and saliva in the throat (abnormal phlegm, excessive production of saliva), like whistling flute, phlegm is white foamy phlegm, no obvious symptoms of heat and cold, rapid onset, accompanied by the symptoms of wind evil. The treatment should be dispelling wind and eliminating phlegm, lowering the qi and calming the asthma, and San Zi Nourishing Relative Soup can be used. 5. Deficiency croup: low voice, shortness of breath, wheezing when moving, coughing up phlegm. Treatment should be complementary lungs and kidneys, lowering qi and phlegm, can use the asthma solid root soup. Treatment of bronchial asthma Chinese medicine prescription, need to be guided by a Chinese medicine practitioner to identify the evidence, follow the doctor’s instructions for medication, to avoid medication is not the right evidence, the wrong condition.