The lungs are the respiratory organs of the human body. However, due to the impact of ambient air quality, coupled with fatigue, smoking and bad habits, the lungs are prone to problems. Emphysema is a frequent disease of the lungs, and if left untreated, it is likely to lead to respiratory failure, and in severe cases, it can lead to pulmonary heart disease.
Emphysema refers to the poor elasticity of the alveolar wall due to various reasons, the overinflation and expansion of the lungs, and the increase in the brightness of lung permeability. Figuratively speaking, the lungs are like balloons filled with air.
Emphysema is more common in smokers and the elderly, and is a common chronic lung disease that requires attention once emphysema occurs.
The body appears vigilant for emphysema
Emphysema, because it is a chronic disease, may not show symptoms for several years. Therefore, early symptoms have inconspicuous features that are not easy to detect. As emphysema increases in the range of disease, common emphysema has the following characteristics:
1. Cough and cough sputum
Emphysema mostly evolves as a result of chronic bronchitis. Therefore, early symptoms of emphysema can be accompanied by coughing, coughing up sputum. Many patients will think that it is caused by a cold when they encounter cough and cough up sputum, and they will ignore it. Once there is a cough, and it is accompanied by yellow sputum for too long, seek medical attention in time to check whether it is emphysema.
2. Shortness of breath, cyanosis of lips
Patients with emphysema will have a shortness of breath and shortness of breath after physical exercise. If you feel chest tightness and shortness of breath while jogging or climbing stairs, with gradual aggravation, accompanied by difficulty breathing should be noted. In severe cases, the fingernails of the lips will become cyanosis. It is blue, grey or purple.
3. Fever and fatigue
Patients often experience fever. At this time, it may often be upset due to fever, love to sleep, delirium, sweating, trembling hands, and in severe cases, confusion may occur.
Due to lung damage, some patients will have a lack of oxygen supply to the tissues of various parts of the body, which will lead to fatigue in patients. At this time, patients often feel that they have no energy, and their bodies cannot lift their strength, which affects daily life.
4. Barrel-shaped chest pain
Patients develop barrel-shaped chest pain when they are severely ill. Once the barrel chest appears, it will make the chest like a bucket, with the same diameter of the front and back, left and right. Difficulty breathing occurs. Patients with emphysema do not speak very loudly, and once they speak loudly, they will feel more difficult.
Chinese medicine believes that the cause of emphysema is long-term lung weakness, susceptibility to external evil, and sputum storage. Therefore, there are two factors that occur and develop: internal and external.
Sputum obstructs the lungs
Symptoms: cough phlegm, white and sticky or foamy, shortness of breath, urgent need of a little work, fear of wind and sweat, less genitals, fatigue and fatigue, light tongue, thin or turbid moss, smooth pulse.
Treatment: dissolve sputum and reduce qi, strengthen the spleen and benefit the lungs.
Sputum fever depressed lungs
Symptoms: cough, thick sputum, vomiting discomfort, rough breathing, swelling of the chest, irritability, irritability, thirst, heat and cold, dry yellow stool, red tongue, yellow or yellow greasy, pulse number or slip number.
Treatment: clear the lungs and dissolve sputum, reduce reverse asthma.
Lung and kidney qi deficiency
Symptoms: long breathing time, inability to lie flat, breathing more, breathing less, low voice, timidity, inability to continue breathing, breathing more, chest tightness, palpitations, cough, sputum or white foam, cold limbs, nocturia, severe dark green lips, pale or purple tongue, white moss, weak pulse or knots.
Treatment: tonify the lungs and kidneys, reduce asthma and asthma.
Lung and kidney yin deficiency
Symptoms: shortness of breath, shortness of breath, shortness of breath when moving, cough and phlegm, sticky texture is difficult to cough out, red face is annoying and hot, oropharynx is dry, hot hands and feet, hot flashes and night sweats, red tongue, less moss, fine pulses.
Treatment: nourishes the lungs and kidneys.
Traditional Chinese medicine treatment
1. Wind chill external sensation: the patient coughs and wheezes and works, the sputum is white and thin, the cold headache, no sweat, the tongue is thin and white, and the pulse is tight.
Treatment: disperse cold and promote the lungs, dissolve phlegm and calm asthma. Prescription: Almonds, Half Summer, Fine Spices, Hot Ephedra, Licorice. Frying powder 3 times.
2. Sputum turbid lungs: patients with wheezing and coughing, sputum is more viscous, happy and unhappy, chest tightness and pain, moss white greasy, smooth pulse.
Treatment: Expectorant and asthma. Prescription: Tangerine peel, half summer, poria, licorice, almond, suzi, white mustard seed, lychee seed, Chuanpu water frying powder 3 times serving.
3. Lung wheezing: the patient has shortness of breath, language weakness, weak cough, self-sweating and wind, unfavorable throat, red face and dry mouth, red tongue, soft and weak pulses.
Treatment: Nourishing qi and yin and calming asthma. Prescription: Ginseng, Schisandra, Sand Ginseng, Mai Dong, Aster, Astragalus, Mulberry White Peel, Skullcap, Licorice Root. Fry in 3 servings.
4. Kidney wheezing: the patient wheezes and coughs for a long time, the movement is very wheezing, the shape is tired, the sweat is blue, the limbs are cold and waist is sore, the tongue is light, and the pulse is deep.
Treatment: Tonify the kidneys and absorb qi. Prescription: Ze diarrhea, cooked appendages, cinnamon (also baked water), cooked land, ginseng, mountain meat, danpi, old paper, poria each, schisandra. Fry in 3 servings.
Diet is contraindicated
1. Avoid irritating foods. Avoid spicy and irritating foods such as peppers, onions, garlic, wine, etc., because of irritation of the tracheal mucosa, it will aggravate cough, asthma, palpitations and other symptoms, inducing asthma, so it should be avoided.
1 Avoid eating fishy and greasy products. Fish made by non-steaming methods are prone to fire due to excessive oil consumption. In addition, people with allergies and people with high blood uric acid (such as gout patients) should also eat less yellow croaker, striped fish, shrimp, crab and fatty meat with large oil to avoid fire and phlegm.
3. Avoid eating gas-producing foods. Such as sweet potatoes, leeks, etc., because it is not conducive to lung qi promotion, you should eat more alkaline foods.
4. Smoking is prohibited. Because smoking is one of the bane of the development of bronchitis, it is extremely unfavorable to asthmatic bronchitis and should be absolutely prohibited.