How to recognize asthma in Chinese medicine

Asthma is a common recurrent disorder. Asthma and wheezing are differentiated in terms of symptomatic manifestations. Asthma is characterized by shortness of breath and croup in the throat, while wheezing is characterized by shortness of breath, even with the mouth open and shoulders raised. Asthma in Chinese medicine can be divided into wind-cold evidence, phlegm-heat evidence, lung deficiency, kidney deficiency and other different types of identification. 1. Wind-cold syndrome: this is a heavy sense of wind-cold, invasion of the lungs, the internal congestion of the lungs, and external injuries to the skin and hair, and containment of the muscle surface, the lung guards for the evil, the surface of the qi loss of drainage, so that the lungs are congested, can not be declared, triggered by asthma. 2. Phlegm-heat evidence: dietary disorders, the spleen is not healthy, the accumulation of dampness and phlegm, or vegetative phlegm and dampness within the body, a long time depressed into heat; or lung fire is full of steam into phlegm, phlegm and fire interlocked in the lung, the lung qi 膹郁, the loss of qi, difficult to descend, the order to clear and purge can not be, and so the distension of the fullness of the congestion and the development of asthma. 3. Lung deficiency: long illness, lung weakness, cough injury lung gas, or fatigue internal injury, resulting in insufficient lung qi, so the shortness of breath and shortness of breath (wheezing shortness of breath). 4. Kidney deficiency: labor and desire to hurt the kidneys, or after a long illness, loss of vital energy, essence of internal injury, or wheezing for a long time, involving the kidneys, kidney qi is damaged, can not take the gas, the gas reversal for wheezing. Asthma Chinese medicine need to identify the different surface and inside, cold and heat, deficiency and solidity. According to the results of the identification of the results of the selection of suitable Chinese medicine prescription, under the guidance of the doctor to add or subtract the symptomatic regulation.