How is lung cold treated?
summary
Lung cold is a kind of disease in life, which is recorded in Su Wen · Ke Lun. Special attention should also be paid to diet. The color of expectoration is white and thin. The patient's body is cold and the limbs are cold. He has a strong aversion to cold and a light fever. He has chest pain, shortness of breath and a pale complexion. He can also be swarthy after meeting. He can't lie down with shortness of breath. His tongue is pale or dark purple. His moss is white and slippery. His pulse is heavy or tight. So, let's take a look at how to treat lung cold first? Let's introduce the related knowledge of the field.
How is lung cold treated?
First, there are many causes of cough, but TCM mainly divides it into two categories: hot cough and cold cough. It can also be divided into exogenous cough and internal injury cough. However, the distinction between hot cough and cold cough is not as simple as that between cold cough at night and hot cough during the day. It should be carefully distinguished in accordance with the four diagnostic principles and eight principles of traditional Chinese medicine.
Second: hot cough can be divided into wind heat and dry heat cough. Wind heat cough is mostly caused by cold and wind heat, often accompanied by sore throat, chilly fever, stuffy nose, yellow nose, heavy cough, yellow phlegm, hard stool, red tongue and yellow fur, slippery pulse. It is suitable for dispersing wind and relieving exterior symptoms, clearing heat and relieving cough. The commonly used drugs are mulberry leaf, chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, Scutellaria, apricot, Platycodon grandiflorum, Peucedanum and Chuanbei.
Third, dry heat cough is mainly caused by dry weather, excessive food, dry heat or lung yin deficiency. There is little or no phlegm, and dry mouth, dry tongue, dry skin, stool, yellow urine, red tongue, thin and yellowish fur, and pulse number or fine number. It is suitable for clearing heat and moistening dryness, moistening lung and relieving cough. The commonly used drugs are xueliqian, loquat leaf, Sangbaipi, Platycodon grandiflorum, Qianhu, Chuanbei, Nanxing, and Lilium, Shashen, Chuanbei Yuzhu, Nanxing, Chuanbei soup or sugar water. Cold cough is mainly seen in cold, wind cold and weak constitution. Symptoms include shortness of breath, especially after wind cold. Cough is weak and mild, phlegm is thin and white or with bubbles, throat itching, body fatigue and aversion to cold, tongue is light and moss is thin and white, pulse string is thin or slightly floating. Tangerine peel, fahia, Suzi, North apricot, Baiqian, and Tussilago are commonly used.
matters needing attention
In the treatment of cough, in addition to the doctor to carefully distinguish the disease, find out the cause, the correct prescription and medication, whether the patient's self-regulation is proper or not will play a very important role in the recovery of the disease and the recovery of the body. First of all, we should pay attention to "abstain from eating". Patients should avoid eating too sweet or greasy food (such as candy, chocolate, glutinous rice or soup pills). People with hot cough and dry cough should fast fried hot and dry food and warm tonic food (such as French fries, spring rolls, spicy, shrimp and crab, goose and duck, roast pigeon, beef and mutton, stewed brine, tonic soup, etc.), People with cold cough, wind cough and body deficiency cough should avoid cold things (such as ice cream, fruit and vegetable salad, vegetable soup, sugar water, etc.). Secondly, patients should pay attention to rest and avoid catching cold (especially don't let throat, chest, shoulder and back catch cold). In addition, to avoid speaking too much or drinking cold drinks, because will stimulate the throat, aggravate cough. Appropriate soup has a positive effect on relieving cough and resolving phlegm, clearing lung, moistening lung, tonifying lung and preventing disease.
