The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of obstructive pulmonary emphysema

WangHuiWu The 2nd affiliated hospital of chongqing medical university

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        Emphysema is alveolar space expanded, the alveoli gas increases and lead to lung tissue decreased powerful and lung volume expansion. Emphysema can be divided into obstructive pulmonary emphysema, senile pulmonary emphysema, compensatory offering emphysema and interstitial emphysema clinical types. Obstructive pulmonary emphysema of pulmonary emphysema is the most common and most serious health effects a, see more at middle age or the old, and occurs in old age chronic bronchitis, pneumoconiosis, bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis, tuberculosis, and other diseases later. Whoever can cause bronchial inflammatory change, make the ventilation obstructed, can lead to obstructive pulmonary emphysema.

        Obstructive pulmonary emphysema disease slow, the main symptoms of cough, sputum and shortness of breath. Early symptoms is lighter, labor occurs shortness of breath, along with the increase of the degree of emphysema, short of breath symptoms gradually obvious, even the ground to walk or at rest also feeling shortness of breath. When the climate cold, bronchial secretions increase, patients often feel chest distress, blue in also is obvious. Then if concurrent respiratory infections, bronchial obstruction is more serious, due to pulmonary ventilation and lung in oxygen dysfunction, can cause lack of oxygen, further serious when, tend to cause the carbon dioxide retention, appear cyanosis, headache, tachycardia, sleepiness, spiritual trance, etc. If be treated not in time, can happen quickly respiratory failure.

        Obstructive pulmonary emphysema may through the X-ray examination and diagnosis.

        Obstructive pulmonary emphysema, belongs to the Chinese medicine "cough", "gas", "phlegm retention", "lung expansion", "lung confused", "virtual fatigue" category, much by is caused by deficiency. The disease of the lung and spleen, lungs virtual can't dispersing pertains, spleen breeding phlegm retention, early should be timely releasing lungs to eliminate pathogenic factors the spleen and eliminating phlegm. Late often cause big qi pole, lung lost instigation and stasis resistance, water loss of restriction and flood, older kidney qi has virtual, if add the disease, more consumable injury JingXie, kidney qi more virtual, winter symptoms aggravated person often is deficiency of Yang, summer a symptom aggravating for deficiency of Yin or wet cheng. The disease evil real is virtual, specimen in sight of one another, and its treatment should foster.

        Prescription a

        Chinese yam 30 grams, Gordon euryale seed 12 grams, gingko 10 grams, 15 g of rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae, poria cocos 30 grams, liquorice 10 grams, astragalus membranaceus 30 grams, Perilla 10 grams, burdock 12 grams, semen raphani 12 grams. Water Fried suit.

        Add and subtract: chest distress and snakegourd fruit; Exhale difficult times with astragalus root; Breathe in and breathe out difficult and dangshen, dwarf lilyturf, fruit of Chinese magnoliavine, Loose stool constipation are reuse of rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae; Fever, sputum yellow plus honeysuckle, forsythia, Palpitation, edema, and cold add red ginseng, radix aconiti lateralis preparata, Winter symptoms aggravated, belongs to the Yang, add red ginseng, radix aconiti lateralis preparata, On wet summer fill, head weight chest distress person and almond, coix seed, white nutmeg; Five upset hot, insomnia, zygomatic red person belong to Yin deficiency, gaza ginseng, radix ophiopogonis, rhizoma anemarrhenae.

        Note: the ancient "home due to avoid and" say. Empirical asthmatic cough is afforded avoid ginseng, but not deficiency syndrome with and do not. If there is a heart failure, still must increase dosage of astragalus membranaceus.

        Prescription 2

        Coastal glehnia root 30 grams, the dwarf lilyturf 30 grams, fruit of Chinese magnoliavine 30 grams, coix seed 30 grams, almond 12 grams, dried tangerine or orange peel 10 grams, method pinellia tuber 10 grams, poria cocos 20 grams. Water Fried suit.

        Add and subtract: cold add ginger, ephedra, Wind hot add mulberry leaf, chrysanthemum, Yin deficiency and radix rehmanniae, cortex moutan, Yang deficiency and gun ginger, asarum. Obstructive pulmonary emphysema is by chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, silicosis and cause, therefore, to prevent obstructive pulmonary emphysema, will prevent and thorough treatment of the disease.

        Obstructive pulmonary emphysema is not "an incurable disease," but, simple turn to drugs, and will not solve the problem. Obstructive pulmonary emphysema due to pulmonary function damage, the impact of the body health and resistance, both reciprocal causation. Therefore, to improve health and resistance, the most fundamental is to improve lung function method. Do breathing exercises, wash cold water even cold bath face, walking, jogging (in walking exercise to certain degree to jogging), etc., can improve health, strengthen the resistance. Patients with pulmonary emphysema should insist to take exercise, perserve, day long since paid off.