Bronchial asthma, or asthma for short. In ancient Chinese, “哮” refers to the sound made by people or animals. For example, in the Qing Dynasty, Chen Changzhi engraved the book “Shuowen Jiezi”, “The sound of boar is also alarming. From the sound of mouth filial. Xujiaoche”. In the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu’s “Stone Niches”, “Bears roar me east, tigers and leopards call me west”. Later, it is also called “roar” when people shout loudly, such as roaring and other words. When applied to medicine, it refers to the sound made by breathing. The word “wheeze”, inscribed by Chen Changzhi in the Qing dynasty, is also called “Severe Breathing”. From the mouth Z. ChangW cut”. It refers to the rapid breathing, which is now called faster than normal breathing rate. Bronchial asthma, also from Latin and Greek, means short breath, a panting ( “short breath, a panting”). It can be seen that asthma in both Chinese and English describes a phenomenon in which the breath makes a sound and shortness of breath, so the translation of Western medical asthma corresponds to Chinese asthma.