How to recognize cough in the morning in Chinese medicine

Cough in the morning may be caused by cold in the morning, feeling cold stimulation of the throat, or phlegm-heat or phlegm-dampness cough, the specific identification needs to be combined with the patient’s other symptoms, and can not be based on the cough in the morning alone to give the identification. May also be cold in the morning, feel the cold stimulate the throat, itchy and cough. Chinese medicine believes that cough is caused by exogenous, dietary, emotional, other diseases and other factors, the identification of cough is mainly from the following aspects: Identify exogenous internal injuries, exogenous, mostly new, acute, short course of the disease, accompanied by fever, headache and other superficial evidence; internal injuries, how long the disease, often recurring episodes, long course of the disease, can be accompanied by other visceral diseases. Identify cough, cough sharp throat itching, mostly for the external wind-cold or wind-heat; cough coarse turbid mostly wind-heat or phlegm-heat caused by; cough crisp, dry cough without sputum or less sputum may be lung dryness and yin deficiency; dry cough frequently, no sputum or sputum with blood belongs to the consumptive (i.e., tuberculosis), and so on. In addition to the above identification points, it should also be combined with systemic manifestations, past medical history, tongue and pulse for identification. People who cough in the morning should consult a doctor in time to avoid delaying their condition.