Cough is divided into cold and hot, and improper treatment is easy to have a counterproductive effect

Henan Children's Hospital Fu Yunyun

After the spring, the weather is still cold, the children go out to run a crazy circle, constantly coughing, every "cough cough" affects the hearts of parents. Long-term severe cough can lead to respiratory bleeding, many parents are worried about their children coughing up pneumonia, tracheitis, but the needle is also beaten, the medicine is also eaten, but still can't stop coughing, what is going on?

Children's cough is predominantly non-sensory cough

A simple cough symptom is actually all-encompassing. In the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic", it is said that "all the internal organs can make people cough, and not only the lungs are also". From the perspective of Traditional Chinese medicine, cough can be roughly divided into external cough and internal injury cough.

Children's cough is mainly coughing, winter is a high incidence of external diseases, and many children with external diseases have symptoms of cough. Most of the external cough is acute and short-term, often accompanied by fever, nasal congestion, sore throat and other manifestations. The dialectic of external cough is mainly based on wind chill, wind heat, and wind dryness, and most of them are empirical in the early days.

How to treat external cough

External cough to dispel evil lungs as the treatment principle, according to the evil wind cold, wind heat, wind dryness, should be used to evacuate the wind, cold, heat, moisturizing methods for treatment.

The most important thing for children to feel coughing is to distinguish between cold and heat, because the treatment methods for these two symptoms are very different. Cold cough is mainly caused by wind chills, and is more common in spring and winter. Hot cough is mainly caused by wind fever in the lungs, and is more common in summer and autumn. The wrong approach to treatment is not conducive to recovery and may worsen the condition.

Cold cough is characterized by heavy cough, shortness of breath, itchy throat, thin and white sputum, often accompanied by nasal congestion, runny nose, headache, limb aches, cold fever, no sweat and other symptoms, white tongue, floating or tight pulse. The treatment principle of cold cough is mainly to relieve wind and cold, promote lung cough and relieve cough. The treatment can be selected with three soups to stop coughing, and it is not advisable to use cold and hot products.

The symptoms of hot cough are mainly cough and sputum discomfort, yellow or viscous sputum, dry throat and sore throat, often accompanied by bad wind and body heat, headache and limbs, nasal discharge, yellow nose, thirst and other symptoms of heat, thin yellow tongue, floating or slippery pulses. The treatment of hot cough is to clear the wind and clear the heat, promote the lungs and relieve cough, and you can use a prescription medicine such as mulberry drink to clear the heat and promote the lungs.

Dry cough. In addition to hot and cold coughs, dry coughs are often seen in pediatrics. The symptoms of dry cough are itchy throat dry cough, no sputum or less sputum and adhesion into silk, cough sputum is not pleasant, or sputum with blood, sore throat, dry lips and nose, dry mouth, often accompanied by nasal congestion, headache, cold, body heat and other manifestations, red and dry tongue and less jin, moss thin white or thin yellow, pulse floating. The treatment method is to clear the lungs, moisturize and relieve cough. Use a prescription medicine such as mulberry apricot soup to dampen the wind and dry cough.

In addition to directly treating the lungs, the treatment of cough should also be based on the overall treatment of the spleen, liver, kidney and so on. Cough is a pathological manifestation of the human body's exorcism, and the treatment must not simply see cough and cough, but must be treated according to different etiologies.