Symptoms and treatments for lung-heat cough vary according to different subtypes. There are wind-heat against the lungs, phlegm-heat and lung-heat, liver-fire against the lungs, and deficiency-heat with lung-yin deficiency.
Wind-heat against the lungs: severe cough, hoarse and thick cough, dry and painful throat, unpleasant cough and phlegm, sticky and yellow phlegm, sweating when coughing, accompanied by yellow nasal discharge, thirst, headache, body aches, bad wind, fever and episodes of fever. It is advisable to relieve wind and clear heat, promote lung circulation to stop coughing (to stop coughing by promoting lung qi), and can be treated with the addition or subtraction of Sang Ju Drink.
Phlegm-heat and Lung congestion syndrome: coughing, coarse and rapid breath, phlegm sound in the throat, phlegm is sticky, thick and yellow, and sputum is unpleasant, with hot and fishy odor, or bloody sputum, accompanied by chest and hypochondrium distension and fullness, pain in the traction when coughing, red face, fever, dry and sticky mouth, and wanting to drink water. It is advisable to clear heat and purge the lungs, expel phlegm and stop coughing, and can be treated by adding subtractions to Qing Jin Hua Phlegm Tang.
Liver-fire in the lungs syndrome: coughing bouts with the breath going up and down, accompanied by red face, dry throat and bitter mouth, feeling of phlegm sticking in the throat and difficult to cluck out, small amount of sticky phlegm or like flotsam, chest and hypochondriac distension and pain, coughing and pain in the traction, and the symptoms increasing or decreasing with mood fluctuations. It is advisable to clear the lungs and remove heat, and to lower the fire by smoothing the qi, which can be treated with the addition of Dai Clam San and the addition of Di Bai San.
Lung Yin Deficiency: Dry cough, short and rapid cough, sputum with little sticky white sputum, or sputum with blood, gradually hoarse voice, dry mouth and throat, accompanied by afternoon hot flashes, redness of zygomatic bones, night sweating (abnormal sweating after going to sleep, but sweating stops after waking up), wasting away, fatigue (lack of mental strength). It is advisable to nourish yin and moisten the lung, resolve phlegm and stop cough, and can be treated with the addition and subtraction of Sha Shen Maidong Tang.
It is recommended that the patient be treated under the guidance of a doctor to identify the symptoms.