Long-term white sputum spitting Chinese medicine need to identify the evidence, take the appropriate Chinese medicine treatment. Long-term white sputum spitting can belong to the Chinese medicine “cough”, “lung distension” and other categories, can be divided into lung deficiency and cold, phlegm and dampness in the lungs, yang deficiency and water flooding (yang qi deficiency caused by the body’s water and fluid operation obstacles).
1. Lung deficiency and cold syndrome: coughing up white sputum with saliva, shortness of breath, fatigue (mental exhaustion, physical weakness), fear of cold, frequent urination, pale tongue, weak pulse, it is appropriate to use Licorice and Ginger Soup to warm the lungs, benefit the qi and resolve the phlegm.
2. Phlegm-dampness in the lungs: spitting white phlegm with recurrent cough, sticky and thick phlegm, chest and epigastric plumpness (stomach distension and discomfort), loss of appetite, white and greasy tongue coating, moist and slippery pulse, using Er Chen Ping Gastric Powder with San Zi Nourishing Relative Soup to dry dampness and resolve phlegm (expelling dampness and resolving phlegm by drying dampness) to stop cough.
3. Yang deficiency and water flooding syndrome: spitting white phlegm, sputum is clear and thin, with floating face, swelling of lower limbs, palpitation, fear of cold, pale and fat tongue with white slippery fur, and sunken and weak pulse, Zhenwu Tang combining with Wu Ling San is recommended to warm the yang, transform the drinking and promote water metabolism (warming yang qi in the body to promote the metabolism of water).
If you have symptoms of prolonged white phlegm spitting, you should go to the hospital in time, and have your treatment plan formulated by a professional doctor, and the use of traditional Chinese medicine needs to be diagnosed, so as to avoid adverse consequences.