Chinese herbal remedies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Clinical treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, in the choice of traditional Chinese medicine prescription, to recognize the evidence, can follow the doctor’s instructions with small blue dragon soup, three sons to raise relatives soup, tonic lung soup and so on. 1. For those with external cold and internal drinking, symptoms include coughing and wheezing, sputum is abundant and thin, cold (fear of cold) and fever, back cold and no sweating, thirst and not much to drink, or thirst for hot drinks, and greenish color, the formula is Xiaoqinglongtang with additions and subtractions. 2. If phlegm-heat depletes the lungs, the symptoms include coughing, gasping and wheezing, irritability and chest fullness, yellow or white phlegm, sticky and difficult to cluck, or fever with slight malignant cold, little sweating, urinating, yellow and dry stools, and thirst, the formula is Yue Maiden Plus Half-summer Soup or Sang Bai Pi Soup with additions and subtractions. 3. For those with phlegm congestion of the lungs, coughing and wheezing with much phlegm, white and sticky, shortness of breath and wheezing, a little labor, epigastric plumpness and abdominal distension, fatigue and tiredness (tiredness and fatigue), the formula is San Zi Nourishing Family Soup combined with Er Chen Soup with additions and subtractions. 4. In the case of deficiency of lung, spleen and qi, symptoms include prolonged coughing and wheezing, shortness of breath, sputum, chest tightness and abdominal distension, tiredness and laziness, whitish color (white color with no luster), and loose stools (sparse and unshapely feces), the formula is to use Lung Tonifying Soup combined with Sijunzi Tang with additions and subtractions. 5. For those with deficiency of lung and kidney, symptoms include shallow and short breathing, shortness of breath (shortness of breath when moving), low voice, timid, cough, white sputum like foam, unfavorable vomiting, tightness in the chest, palpitation (rapid heartbeat, often accompanied by panic), and coldness (coldness of the body) and sweating, the formula is to use the formula of Ping Pian Gu Ben Tang combined with Lung Replenishing Tang with additions. The patient should consult a doctor in a timely manner and choose the medication under the guidance of the physician’s diagnosis, and should not use the medication on his own in order to avoid delaying the condition.