Treatment of autumn cough appropriate dryness

LvRongHua - shandong traditional Chinese medicine college

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        Enter autumn winter season, cough to break out, especially the elderly, children, once the infection cold, cough problem is prolonged not more; Some day good, in the evening began to keep coughing. Some physical bad young man, stimulation on climate change, the body control out of balance, also repeatedly cough. Clinical encountered this kind of cough do?

        Autumn climate become dry, the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine called "autumn dry". The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinks, in five line, lungs and autumn belong to gold, the lung and autumn corresponding. Lung for charming dirty, xi embellish evil dry, if by dry evil violations, pulmonary gas the supplement, the airway adverse, pulmonary gas loss of xuan, easy cause autumn dry cough. Autumn dry cough though not serious disease, but a slight negligence, still may therefore spawn tracheitis and bronchitis, so we should pay attention.

        Dry cough belong to pathogenic dryness evil, treatment should be based on scattered mission to eliminate pathogenic factors is given priority to. TCM holds that, dry cough because of its etiology is different, and divided into temperature drying (hot) and cool dry (wind drying) two kinds, in the treatment of go up to also have different characteristics.

        Temperature drying commonly occur in early autumn, the weather is hot, easy feeling hot and dry evil, temperature dry cough is dry and partial hot type, the common symptom has dry cough without phlegm, or have a small amount of phlegm, is not easy to cough up out, even visible blood in phlegm, plus the throat swelling and pain, skin and dry mouth, nose, thirsty upset, tongue edge point red, moss thin yellow and dry. In onset, still can have fever and mild afraid of the cold feeling. Cure to drain the wind clear away heat, moisten dry cough, party choose SangXing soup: mulberry leaf, almond, radix glehniae, zhejiang fritillary bulb, lobster sauce, gardenia skin, pear skin. What heat injury tianjin is heavier, and radix trichosanthis, radix ophiopogonis, Dry throat and pain, and shoot dry, platycodon grandiflorum, liquorice, Phlegm sticky difficult to cough up, add snakegourd fruit skin, former hu, dwarf lilyturf root. If the disease for a long time, qi and Yin and the wounded, usable clear dry save lung tonga minus: plaster stone, mulberry leaf, radix ophiopogonis, radix pseudostellariae, til kernel, almond, loquat leaf, colla (Yang change), licorice. Phlegm thick difficult out and platycodon grandiflorum, former hu, snakegourd fruit skin; Hemoptysis and Oriental arborvitae, cogongrass rhizome, nodus nelumbinis rhizomatis charcoal, forsythia, Tianjin injury person and caulis dendrobii, radix rehmanniae, radix glehniae; Defecate not great increase yellow, betel nut, angelica.

        Cool dry commonly occur in late autumn, late autumn wind chill of the evil invade lung health, cool dry cough is dry and partial cold type, hair disease when fear cold, fever is very light, headache and a stuffy nose, throat itching or dry pain, cough, cough up phlegm not great, dry mouth lip dry, coating on the tongue thin white and dry. To appropriate symplectic scattered wen run, proclaims lung phlegm, party choose apricot Sue spread: Sue leaf, almond, system pinellia tuber, tuckahoe, liquorice, former hu, platycodon grandiflorum, fructus aurantii immaturus, orange, ginger, jujube. Table cold heavy add lobster sauce, burdock, Have a headache what plus rhizoma ligustici wallichii, wind, white thistle, Much sputum chest distress and bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae, aster; Table evil already, chronic cough more than person and lily.

        What need reminds is, general mild cough, can be not drug therapy, can undertake recuperating through diet, eating some appropriate nourishes Yin fluids, the product, such as lily, honey, pear, lotus seed, tremella, grape and all kinds of fresh vegetables, eat less spicy hot and dry goods. Tremella rice porridge, lotus root rice porridge, yam rice porridge, jujube tremella soup, adding suitable amount of sugar or sugar, all have certain dryness cough effect. Autumn cough sometimes deferment refractory, due to the throat itching ache afflictive, most people will eat with throat tablet to ease pharyngeal pain, in fact this is not recommended because contain mint ingredient throat tablet have contraction oral mucosa vascular function, in the mouth when no inflammation often contain clothing will make mucosa vasoconstriction, causing dry mucosa damage, leading to the occurrence of oral cavity ulcer. So, don't abuse throat inflammation medicine treatment autumn cough.

        Typical cases

        Female student li mou, 18 years old. Catch cold catch cold catch a cold recently, after a cold often feel oronasal throat dry, nose is dry but flow clear nose, mouth is dry but don't want to drink water, the throat itching, always dry cough, spit a small amount of innocence dilute sputum, headache chills. Clinical patients see tongue light moss white, little tianjin. Pulse condition string fine. Diagnosis of autumn dry cough cool dry type. For when XinWenXuan lung, runfei cough. Party choose apricot Sue scattered close cough bulk add and subtract. Medicinal Sue leaf, almond, tangerine, mustard ear, wind, white before, platycodon grandiflorum, fructus aurantii immaturus, radix stemonae, liquorice, kudzuvine root, Chinese date, ginger. Water Fried clothing, in order to suit the micro sweat for degrees. Take 3 agent, cough check.