According to traditional Chinese medicine, lung qi is smooth by descending, if lung qi is not descending, cough, wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness and other symptoms, which can be seen in wind-cold offending the lungs, wind-heat offending the lungs (wind-heat evil invading the lungs), wind-drying and injuring the lungs, phlegm and phlegm-heat congestion of the lungs and other types of evidence.
1. Wind-cold attacking the lungs: the patient manifests symptoms such as cough, white sputum, foamy sputum, etc. Drugs such as San’ao tablets can be used to evacuate wind-cold and stop coughing. Athletes should be careful.
2. Wind-heat against the lungs: cough, cough yellow sticky sputum, sputum sticky not easy to cough and other symptoms, treatment to evacuate the wind-heat, lung cough, use mulberry chrysanthemum drink plus subtraction treatment. Wind-cold cough should not be used.
3. Wind and dryness injure the lungs: it refers to a class of symptoms in which the lungs are not cleansed and purified by external dryness and wind, resulting in the lungs losing clearness and moisturizing, and the lungs’ qi going up against the lungs and impacting on the airways. It can be treated with the addition and subtraction of Mulberry and Apricot Soup, which plays the role of evacuating wind and dryness. This formula is intended to light propaganda, so the amount of medicine should not be too heavy, and the decoction time should not be too long.
4. Internalized phlegm: coughing, coughing up white sticky phlegm, chest tightness, wheezing and shortness of breath are common. Er Chen Pill is chosen to strengthen the spleen and dry dampness (strengthening the spleen and dispelling dampness). The adverse effects and contraindications of this formula are not clear.
5. Phlegm-heat congestion of the lungs: coughing, coughing up yellow sticky phlegm, coughing up pus and blood phlegm, and wheezing and shortness of breath are common symptoms. The treatment is to clear the lung and resolve phlegm (clearing lung heat and resolving phlegm), and Qing Jin Huo Phlegm Tang can be used to add subtractions. The adverse reactions and contraindications of this formula are not clear.
If there is any discomfort, go to the hospital as soon as possible for consultation and individualized diagnosis and treatment plan according to the specific condition.