From the perspective of Traditional Chinese medicine, what are the types of lung nodules, and how to use the drug to have a good effect? Pulmonary nodules are roughly divided into 6 types: wind and fire sputum stasis lung nodules, air stagnation sputum stasis lung nodules, yin deficiency sputum stasis lung

From the perspective of Traditional Chinese medicine, what are the types of lung nodules, and how to use the drug to have a good effect?

Pulmonary nodules are roughly divided into 6 types: wind and fire sputum stasis lung nodules, air stagnation sputum stasis lung nodules, yin deficiency sputum stasis lung nodules, qi deficiency phlegm stasis lung nodules, blood deficiency sputum stasis lung nodules, cold and wet sputum stasis lung nodules.

(1) Wind and fire sputum stasis type lung nodules

Symptoms and characteristics: often accompanied by chest tightness, cough, sputum stickiness, difficult to cough out, yellow color, many lung diseases, such as asthma, bronchiectasis, pneumonia, etc., the lungs are more common ground glass nodules, tongue red dark moss yellow greasy, pulse strings slippery or string number.

Treatment plan: dispel wind and heat, loosen the knots;

Traditional Chinese medicine prescription: self-imitating wind warp wood trap soup;

Clinical medication: parsnip, forsythia, melon, skullcap, Qing Banxia, Zhejiang shellfish, houttuynia cordata, salvia, chaihu, summer dry grass, etc.

(2) Stagnant sputum stasis type lung nodules

Symptoms and characteristics: chest swelling or chest pain sputum sticky, lung nodules are mostly solid or ground glass solid mixture, tongue dark red moss thin, smooth pulse strings.

Treatment plan: rationalizing phlegm, loosening knots;

TCM prescription: self-imitating four reverse reed stem soup;

Clinical medication: chai hu, fried citrus shell, red peony, fried coix kernel, reed stem, peach kernel, summer dry grass, tulip, etc.

(3) Yin deficiency sputum stasis type lung nodules

Symptoms: irritability, hot hands and feet at night, or night sweats, lung nodules are mostly solid, tongue red, dark moss thin yellow, fine veins.

Treatment plan: nourishing yin and clearing heat, loosening and communicating;

Traditional Chinese medicine prescription: self-imitation turtle nail elimination soup;

Clinical medication: Artemisia annua, turtle nails, ginseng, shellfish, oysters, zhimu, peony skin, raw ground yellow, etc.

(4) Qi deficiency and sputum stasis type lung nodules

Symptoms and characteristics: fatigue and fatigue, hyperhidrosis, susceptibility to external sensation, sluggishness, loose stools, lung nodules are mostly ground glass or solid, light and fat tongue, thin and white moss, fine and weak veins.

Treatment plan: improve gasification of sputum, loose knots;

TCM prescription: self-imitating yiqi dispersal soup;

Clinical medication: ginseng, astragalus, angelica, stir-fried white art, tangerine peel, chai hu, cohosh, red peony, soap thorn, white tribulus terrestris, chicken inner gold, etc.

(5) Blood deficiency sputum stasis type lung nodules

Symptoms and features: chest pain, abdominal distension, sluggishness, fatigue, pulmonary grinding or solid nodules, often with a history of allergic diseases, red tongue, thin moss, pulse string re-pressing weakness.

Treatment plan: nourish the blood and strengthen the spleen, dispel the wind and scatter the knots;

Traditional Chinese medicine prescription: self-proposed loose soup;

Clinical medication: angelica, red peony, chai hu, poria, fried white art, ume, windproof, schisandra, curcuma, chicken inner gold, etc.

(6) Cold and wet sputum stasis lung nodules

Symptoms and features: chest tightness or no special discomfort, cold and heat are not obvious, cough and sputum white amount, lung multi-solid nodules or partial solid nodules, dull tongue, white and greasy moss, pulse strings.

Treatment plan: disperse cold and dissolve sputum; activate blood circulation;

Traditional Chinese medicine prescription: self-imitation chai ginger guiling soup plus or minus;

Clinical medication: chai hu, dried ginger, guizhi, poria, peach kernel, red peony, stir-fried coix kernel, white mustard seed, stir-fried white art, etc.

Many patients with lung nodules lack clinical symptoms in the early stages and only find lung nodules during physical examination. If the nodules are not legible at the beginning, then the main treatment method is to eliminate sputum and eliminate stasis, disperse and remove the accumulation. However, the use of medicine should not be blindly attacked, and it is necessary to take care of the righteous qi at all times.