How to deal with wet and phlegmy coughs

Phlegm cough and damp cough are mostly caused by phlegm-dampness in the lungs, and can be treated with moxibustion, cupping and other treatments, or with medications. Eating spicy stimulation, addicted to tobacco and alcohol and other spicy, warm and dry products, day long brewing phlegm heat; or addicted to fat, sweet and thick flavors, such as injuring the spleen and generate dampness, etc.; or vegetative spleen and stomach weakness, etc., all lead to dampness and phlegm, phlegm and dampness in the lungs and the cough, mostly manifested as coughing heavy, phlegm, white color, white and greasy tongue coating, etc.. Lung Yu, Fenglong, foot Sanli and other points such as cupping, moxibustion, etc., in order to expectorate phlegm and dampness, qi and cough. Specific should be operated by professional physicians. Cough with phlegm-dampness can also be treated by taking medicines internally, such as Er Chen Ping Stomach San, etc. to remove phlegm by drying dampness, and to regulate qi to relieve cough. The formula consists of Semixia, Poria, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, etc. Adverse effects are not clear. Patients with discomfort are advised to consult a doctor in time, and medication should be chosen in accordance with the doctor’s instructions, and it is not advisable to choose acupoints to regulate or use medication without authorization.