The difference between cough with food accumulation and cough with lung-heat includes the etiology, and the main clinical symptoms. Cough with food accumulation is caused by food and drink stopping in the stomach and intestines, and cough with lung-heat is caused by fire-heat; cough with food accumulation is characterized by cough and gastrointestinal symptoms, and cough with lung-heat is characterized by cough and respiratory symptoms. Lung-heat cough is a symptom of exuberant fire-heat, which leads to a loss of lung purity, and the clinical manifestations are dominated by respiratory symptoms, such as fever, thirst, cough, thick and wheezing breath, nasal flap agitation, burning nose, chest pain, sore and swollen throat, short and yellow urine, constipation, and so on. Accumulated food and cough is the food and drink stop in the stomach and intestines, depressed and heat (the evil gas over a long period of time to stay is transformed into heat), heat upward against the lungs of the symptoms, clinical manifestations of gastrointestinal symptoms, such as gastrointestinal distension and stuffiness (abdominal feeling bloated and uncomfortable), pain and refusal to press, anorexia, belching (hiccups) with food odor, abdominal pain and intestinal tinnitus, stools acidic and putrid smell, and so on. Accumulated food cough in addition to cough, gastrointestinal symptoms are more obvious; lung heat cough to respiratory symptoms as the main manifestation. Symptoms, need to go to the hospital in a timely manner, do not self-treatment, so as not to delay the condition.